Bagpipe News

The Niagara Regional Police Pipe Band will host an evening of Scottish music and dance at the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 479 on Spring Street in Niagara Falls on April 12.

The show will run from 8 p.m. until midnight and will include two pipe band performances along with Scottish and Irish dancers. Food and refreshments will be on sale.

A deejay will round out the night’s entertainment with a performance.

Tickets are $20 a couple and are available at the legion or by calling Peter MacKenzie at 905-353-8771.T

KILSYTH soldier Corporal Alastair Tripney (26) had the honour of playing in front of Her Majesty The Queen.

Pipers from the five regular battalions of the Royal Regiment of Scotland (SCOTS) played at the State Banquet during the visit of French President Nicolas Sarkozy to Windsor Castle. It is the first time that the Royal Regiment of Scotland has been given the honour to be the Sovereign’s Pipers at a state banquet.

The pipers had been rehearsing at the headquarters of the Army’s School of Bagpipe Music and Highland Drumming at Redford Infantry Barracks in Edinburgh where they marched in and around the headquarters to try and recreate the Windsor Castle setting prior to playing at the state banquet before Her Majesty The Queen and the French President.

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TRADITIONAL sounds of the Emerald Isle will come to Cleckheaton tomorrow.

The Music Room will host a series of workshops with Becky Taylor, one of the few female exponents of the Uilleann, or Irish pipes, in England today.

Becky is a respected performer and teacher who has appeared at folk festivals in the UK and Europe for 20 years.

She will conduct workshops, perform her material and launch her second CD Ireland Bridge.

Becky is known for her ability to give a distinctive interpretation to traditional tunes on a variety of instruments: whistle, Uilleann pipes, fiddle, Northumbrian pipes and duet concertina.

The shop will be open all day as usual and there will be special offers including a book and CD sale.

Tony Dixon, whistle and flute maker, will arrive around noon with a full range of his instruments and

There will be a beginners’ workshop with Becky from 2pm to 3pm. Those who don’t have their own whistle can buy one at discounted price.

From 3.30pm to 4.30pm there is a Technique Toolbox workshop for more advanced players.

Workshops cost £10 each, with numbers limited to 10 participants for each session.

The workshop cost includes a free ticket to the launch party at 5pm.

This will feature a performance by members of Heretique, with the Music Room’s own Murray Grainger.

The Becky Taylor Band plays at 5.30pm and at 6.15pm there will be wine and food.

To book workshop places visit the shop or go to the Music Room website at www.themusicroom-online.co.uk and search for Whistle Workshop.

Alternatively contact Mark or Terry on 01274 852020.

The Music Room
St.John’s Works
St. John’s Place
Cleckheaton BD19 3RR
Tel +44 (0) 1274 879768

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