The Ohio Valley Branch of the EUSPBA is proud to host the 2007 Annual General Meeting on Saturday, November 10, 2007 at the Hyatt Regency Pittsburgh Airport. The Executive Committee will meet Friday night, when election votes will be tallied. The AGM will take place Saturday from 9:00am to 5:00pm. with the presentation of awards for EUSPBA overall 2007 champions given out at the end of the meeting.
This year, there will be a concert on Saturday, November 10 in Pittsburgh featuring the St. Laurence O’Toole Pipe Band from Dublin, Ireland.
Field Marshal Montgomery won the last major before the worlds today, in very muddy and wet conditions. Field Marshal dodged a 4th placing in drumming, and a 3rd in Piping, to claim the championship ahead of Strathclyde Police and Shotts & Dykehead. Seven Towers claimed Grade 2 in the 19-band MSR contest.
The late Rufus Harley, best known for his work making the bagpipe into a jazz instrument, is the subject of “Pipes of Peace”, a new documentary coming up at the Wildwood By the Sea Film Festival.
The sound seems better suited for an ancient graveyard instead of floating through the office towers and happy hours of Clayton.
Bagpipe music, with its squeal and drone, never fails to grab attention. But it really stands out when the piper is very tall, very bald and standing alone on Forsyth Boulevard squeezing a $3,000 bag of air.
Meet Brian Zinanni, 40, a Clayton firefighter and the driving force behind the St. Louis Firefighters Highland Guard.
“When I came to St. Louis five years ago to take this job, I asked about a firefighters’ pipe band,” said Zinanni, who is single and lives in Webster Groves. “Most big-city departments have one…
July 24- There has been a call received by the BCPAfrom the Poco Community Police Station at 3312 Coast Meridian Street. They have had a set of pipes turned in to them that were found loose with no identification of a band or individual owner.
If you have been the victim of a car prowling or home burglary that may have resulted in the loss of these pipes, please call 604-927-5451 and leave a message.
If the pipes are not identified and claimed by the owner, they will go up
for auction at a later date.
Roddymacleodpiobaireachd.comis the launch of a new website containing an archive of new recordings of complete piobaireachds by Principal of The National Piping Centre and Director of Piping Live! , Roddy MacLeod MBE.
Each recording is available for download and are accompanied by a manuscript and canntaireachd files. Unusually the manuscript notation uses a format where relative note values are used to convey the interpretation and style of performance and can be played on Bagpipe Music Writer providing a valuable teaching and learning resource.
The launch will include the arrival of a new CD - Roddy MacLeod Piobaireachd Volume 1.
On Monday 6th of August, Piping live!is planning a family day for you to bring along your little ones and get them involved in the fun. The Family Day will have something for everyone with activities taking place from 11am until 4pm
There will also be a special quiz with some great prizes along with a performance from some of Scotland’s brightest young piping stars, at the street café. Also we will have a special visit from Big Rory and Ochie the Dog during the day who will be entertaining us with their special brand of entertainment!
There will also be a special performance from the 2005 World Juvenile Champions, The Robert Malcolm Memorial Juvenile Pipe Band will be performing at 2.00 pm
We also have confirmed the Tyler Fry will be doing a drumming demonstration and a come and try snare drumming session. It will be amazing for anyone interested in drumming! This will take place at 2.30pm.
Aswell as this there will be face painting, a bouncy castle, and highland dancing displays. There will also be a barbeque and fun packs to take home.
Tickets for this event are £2.50 for 1 adult and 1 child and then 50p for extra children. To get yours now call The National Piping Centre on 0141 353 0220!
The ‘Garvie Bagpipe Concerto‘ is a new piece of music in three movements by
composer Simon Thoumire written to demonstrate the range and beauty of the Garvie Scottish Smallpipes with their newly developed fully chromatic
chanter.
The soloist of the piece, will be Dr Simon McKerrell, and the ensemble will
consist of piano and two fiddles. The music will be contemporary and explore
the different facets of our traditional music. This is a virtuoso piece that
demands great technical skill and talent from the soloist.
Bellows-blown Border Pipes have been played in Scotland since the 17th
Century but, with this commissioned piece, Garvie Bagpipes are reflecting
movements in modern interpretation of traditional music and extending the
knowledge influence and repertoire of Borders Pipes.
It was on a bleak Scottish moor April 16, 1746, that a rag-tag army of Scottish rebels hurled itself one last time against a better armed and better trained English army.
The Battle of Culloden left the flower of the Highland clans slaughtered. As the fierce clanging of Scottish broadswords on English muskets rang for the final time, the echoes of this desperate struggle would be heard as far away as Barbour County in Alabama.
The disastrous Scottish defeat at Culloden led to a wave of political reprisals in Scotland and to an assault on the Scottish way of life itself. The wearing of the kilt and tartan was banned along with the bagpipe.
The Field Marshal Montgomery Pipe Band says that its concert at The Glasgow Royal Concert Hall on Wednesday, August 8, 2007, will bethe live pipe band performance of the year and will showcase much of the band’s recent musical history. Promoted by the Phoenix Honda-Glasgow Skye Association Pipe Band, the concert is entitles “RE:CHARGED,” and marks the band’s return to the RGCH stage for the first time since 2002.
Free evening of piping and refreshments on Renfrew Ferry (see pic.) Aug 6 at 7pm courtesy Wallace Bagpipes; tickets from CoP; Dysart and other bands lined up; all welcome
You’ll need a good set of lips. Steady air supply. An ear for music. And quick fingers.
And that’s about it.
You certainly don’t have to be Scottish. Heck, you don’t even have to roll your r’s or regularly pepper your vocabulary with words like wee, laddie or auld.
The Scottish Club Pipe Band welcomes anyone.
And as long as you have a genuine interest and desire to learn (and, yes, practise), they’ll have you playing Scotland the Brave without driving people from the room in no time.
True, bagpipes can be tough to master, says Allan Ash, the band’s pipe major.
They can be rather unforgiving. Especially since they exist at one volume: really, really loud.
The bagpipe sends out a sound that pierces the air and can be heard above almost everything else. In any parade you hear the stabbing sound long before you see the band.
The Police Pipes and Drum band of Plattsburgh has about 16 members and is looking for more.
Jim Farnsworth is the President. “We have retired and active police from the city police, state police, several federal agencies. We have corrections officers and their children in the band. We have doctors and fire fighters from Plattsburgh.”
Congratulations to all those that applied and received the $100 scholarship from the Prairie Pipe Band Association of Manitoba:
Recipient/ Band Affiliation
Jamie Kubasiewicz / Lord Selkirk Boy Scouts
Chris Gardner / St. Andrew’s Society of Winnipeg
Cassandra Hill / Transcona & District
Doug Rennie
Greg Rennie
Megan Ross
Adam Tingskou
The PPBAM’s scholarship program is open to all members of the Prairie Pipe Band Association of Manitoba. It is funded by band and membership dues, with the intent of encouraging professional development throughout our organization.
Bands on the Boardwalk Results
The Bands on the Boardwalk Festival has tabulated the results from the contest:
The Canmore Highland Games began in 1991, and quickly became the premier event of it’s kind in Western Canada. People love to come to the Canmore event and say there’s not another Games like it for scenery and entertainment.
Competitors come from across Canada, USA and Scotland to compete in their area of expertise.
Please note that the Fort Edmonton Park Highland Gathering will be held on July 21, not the 23rd as was previously posted. This correction has been applied to all applicable event listings. The ASPD webmaster offers apologies for any confusion this may have caused.
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