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“HADDINGTON Pipe Band was on Sunday named the best pipe band in Scotland, after receiving huge support from all over the world.
The county favourites won various heats and then an online public poll to claim the title of ‘Scottish Pipe Band of the Year’ at the coveted Scottish Traditional Music Awards 2009 in Dumfries.
The band, who took to the streets of Haddington last month to drum up support, beat fellow finalists Boghall & Bathgate, Strathclyde Police, and Inveraray Pipe Bands following the public vote.
re impressive as their final rivals are all ‘competition’ bands while Haddington exists solely to benefit the community.
Pipe Major David Leckie said of the win: ‘This is unbelievable.
‘Just to be nominated alongside such wonderful bands was an honour for us, and to come away with the award really is beyond anything we could have hoped for.”
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