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Vancouver – March 13, 2004 – Jori Chisholm of Seattle won the annual BC Pipers Association (BCPA) Professional Piping Knockout Final against a field of 15 other competitors. The event was held in conjunction with the Association’s Annual Dinner. Competitors had to play an eight-to-10-minute medley comprising tunes of their […]

Richard Parkes, Field Marshal Montgomery Pipe-Major, accomplished soloist, and willing and enthusiastic teacher

Dawning of the Day will showcase new compositions

[Originally published as an Editorial] The late John Weatherston and his leading drummer Wilson Young started a trend when they integrated a church organ with the Red Hackle Pipe Band in the 1960s. Since then, bands have widened the appeal of pipe band music by working with other instruments, musicians, […]

More than 40 B&C Grade pipers compete

Melbourne contest sees four Grade 1 bands compete

Live@MPAC, Western Australia Police Pipe Band

North Coast, Windsor Police beneficiaries of Grade 2 band’s break-up

Band favouring Maxville trip instead

Contest still call for four submissions from shorter lists

Anne Spalding – soloist, teacher, pioneer

Challenge event calls for obscure tunes

Replacement not yet decided

Designed to make benefits of organization available to more people

Colin MacLellan, Competing Pipers Association President, helps to launch our new, regular feature

Seventh annual Seattle event features world-class soloists