Northwest Junior Pipe Band(s) and soloists had a great weekend at the biggest Highland Games event in the Northwest US and British Columbia. The premier season for the Grade 5 (beginning) band was a great success, with NWJPB Grade 5 taking 1st place at every graded competition entered this year. The Enumclaw games were no...
Saturday, July 21, 2007 Coming off a second place finish overall at the Skagit Valley Highland Games, NWJPB Grade 4 competed at the Portland Highland Games and won 2nd place of 6 pipe bands. Grade 4 piper Alexander S placed 1st overall winning an aggregate award, and Matt M placed 1st overall in the...
Northwest Junior Pipe Band placed 2nd of 4 bands Sunday July 15th at the Skagit Valley Highland Games. In addition, the NWJPB Grade 5 drum corps took first place in the Grade IV Drum Corps competition, having challenged up because there was no Grade 5 drumming competition. Videos will be posted to the NWJPB...
July 14th, 2007 – Mt. Vernon, WA Northwest Junior Pipe Band Grade 5 (beginners) took 1st place of 2 pipe bands at the 13th annual Skagit Valley Highland Games. Northwest Junior Pipe Band Grade 4 placed 4th out of 6 bands. Each time Grade 4 takes the field, the band has improved over the...
Stewart Cassells is doing a lot to popularize and raise awareness of the art of bagpiping and pipe band music. He formed the band “Red Hot Chili Pipers“, which may be the most famous Pipe and Drum group in the World….winners of the Prime Time BBC One show “When Will I Be Famous?” with...
The Shotts drum corps opened the Live Earth event in London on 7/7/07 alongside Queen’s Roger Taylor, Foo Fighters’ Taylor Hawkins and Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Chad Smith in a one-off performance especially composed for the event. The “SOS All Stars”. Hear the perfomance on the Shotts Blog. “SOS” is a Global Movement for...
Playing the bagpipes is a unique kind of exercise, for your arms, hands, fingers, and lungs. For a beginner just starting on bagpipes it can take months of regular practice to just keep the bag going for half an hour. This article suggests it may be just what’s needed to combat asthma symptoms as...
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