Grade 2 bands make it through to World’s final

Glasgow – August 11, 2007 – The Grade 2 bands that have qualified for the Grade 2 final at the 2007 World’s (in alphabetical order):

• Band Club Sydney (Australia) (heat 2)
• Buchan (Scotland) (heat 2)
• Cullybackey (Northern Ireland (heat 2)
• Dumfries & Galloway Constabulary (Scotland) (heat 1)
• Killeen (Northern Ireland) (heat 1)
• Lomond & Clyde (Scotland) (heat 2)
• Niagara Regional Police (Canada) (heat 1)
• Oran Mor (USA) (heat 2)
• Ravara (Northern Ireland) (heat 1)
• Seven Towers (Northern Ireland) (heat 1)
• Strathclyde Fire & Rescue (Scotland) (heat 2)
• Torphichen & Bathgate (Scotland)

These bands now go through to compete in a final at Glasgow Green, in which each band submits two March, Strathspey & Reel sets, and plays one. In the heats bands played an MSR of their own choice.

Judges for the two heats were Davey Clark, Annie Grant (piping); Sandy Steele (drumming); and Malcolm MacKenzie (ensemble) for Heat 1, and for Heat 2: Tony Sloan, John Wilson (piping); Alistair Dowling (drumming); and Alastair Aitken (ensemble).

Keep watching pipes|drums for further information and results from the World’s as they become available.

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