Northwest Junior Pipe Band has been rapidly growing and steadily improving over the past few years since gaining a promition to Grade 4 from the beginning Grade 5 class. With over 50 members and the second season fielding two pipe bands, The first competition of 2008 started out strong for the band. This is...
5/3 Update: Sold Out! Click Here for the 2009 event info>> Northwest Junior Pipe Band members are building a new future and history of competitive youth pipe bands in Washington State. They have worked feverishly over the last year to raise over $24,000.00 to travel to Scotland while honing their skills to compete in the...
NWJPB closes a busy week filled with multiple performances, today: appearing LIVE on King 5 this morning, appearing on Northwest Cable News, and getting a special “web” version of a performance posted on King5.com. The video features our newest instructor and recent graduate leading the band; Ben Little, two of our newest pipers and...
"you show me how to play them, then I can show her" "Laws" about Tartans & Kilts "Can you tune bagpipes?" "Why are you wearing earplugs?" "Just give me a lesson and I'LL play them for my event" "Can you turn those down?" "Are there real songs for those things?"
Washington State is sending two pipe bands to compete in the World Pipe Band Championships this year; the Keith Highlanders and Northwest Junior Pipe Band. Northwest Junior Pipe Band is the first youth pipe band from our State ever to attend the World Pipe Band Championships and the first youth band to even travel to...
ABC news recently ran a feature story about bagpiping. While they call it a “resurgence” many in the piping world think of it as continued growth in public interest. Rock Band “Red Hot Chili Pipers” is given some credit for “mainstreaming” bagpipes, but the story covers several of the reasons why bagpiping seems to be gaining...
Shorecrest High School’s Band Program performed “A Long Way to the Top” by AC-DC, and won 1st place, and $10,000.00 for their band program. NWJPB Band Director Kevin Auld leads the Shorecrest Pipers in the band, and members of NWJPB were invited to perform on stage with the band and “Spike and the Impalers”...
Gung Haggis Fat Choy, Seattle; an inter-cultural mash-up event in Seattle on February 24th celebrating Robbie Burns Day and Chinese New Year is a week away, but the event is nearly sold out, even though the seating was expanded to 340! The entertainment at the event includes Northwest Junior Pipe Band, “Gung Haggis Rap...
Yep, you read that right. And you don’t want to miss it! Seattle’s second annual, unforgettable mash-up of Scottish Robbie Burns and Chinese New Year celebration returns February 24th at Ocean City Restaurant, 609 S. Weller in Seattle’s International District. A fundraiser for Northwest Junior Pipe Band and the Washington Chinese Youth Orchestra hosted...
The British Columbia Pipers Association Board unanimously approved the recommendations of a special panel of experts to re-grade the Triumph Street Pipe Band as Grade 1 for the 2008 competition season. Congratulations to their organization for their efforts! Share on Facebook
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