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 Choy” (Robbie Burns Address to the Haggis performed as a Rap), Traditional Chinese orchestral music by Washington Chinese Youth Orchestra, Don Scobie; bagpiper, Scottish Fiddling, Sing Alongs, Chinese Dancers, and some surprises! Sure to be a memorable evening, make sure to plan ahead and purchase tickets early next year.
See more information on the event, sponsored by Bill McFadden and the Seattle Caledonian/St. Andrews Society here>>. See news coverage of the event here>> and in the Seattle Times “Best Bets for the Weekend” here>>.
The event is a fundraiser for Northwest Junior Pipe Band and the Washington Chinese Youth Orchestra. Northwest Junior Pipe Band is in the final stretch of their fundraising to travel to the World Pipe Band Championships in Scotland this August. NWJPB is the first youth band from Washington State to go to Scotland since 1969.
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 by the St. Andrews/Caledonian Society of Seattle, this event was one of the highlights of our year in 2007. Gung Haggis Fat Choy has a wildly successful history in Vancouver, BC starting 10 years ago in a living room with 16 attendees and growing into a week-long festival of events with hundreds of attendees.
Visit www.gunghaggisfatchoy.com for more history of the Vancouver events.
The Seattle Event includes performances by the Chinese Youth Orchestra, Northwest Junior Pipe Band, Don Scobie-Bagpiper, Toddish McWong’s Gung Haggis Rap Choy, Robbie Burns Poetry readings, Melody Dance Group youth Chinese dancers, door prizes and raffles. Singalongs of traditional and culturally-tweaked familiar songs, such as “When Asian Eyes Are Smiling”, and “My Haggis Lies Over the Ocean, My Chow Mein Lies Over the Sea.” Traditional Chinese and Scottish Dress, sometimes on the same people.
Northwest Junior Pipe Band will be selling a limited number of tickets. Contact us soon! $35.00 for dinner and show. info@nwjpb.org or 206-508-1261.
More tickets available from the Caledonian Society.
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This requires a “Live ID” or hotmail account, and joining the “Live Search Club”. If you already have one, visit www.searchandgive.com and sign in. Select Northwest Junior Pipe Band by typing in “northwest junior pipe band” under search for a charity. Select us as your charity and check and accept the terms and conditions.
NWJPB members snatched up all available Entertainment ‘08 books at practice Thursday night and are ordering more Friday. One band member pre-sold 30 books before the books ever arrived.
NWJPB youth and families will help raise funds to travel to Scotland in 2008 by selling $20.00 Entertainment ‘08 books with a total value in coupon savings of over $20,000.00 in the Seattle area and around $14,000 in the Snohomish or Pierce County regions.
Contact a band member and ask to buy a book from them. The Entertainment books are being sold in the Seattle area at a significant savings over 2006 when they sold for $30.00. NWJPB can earn as much as 50% of each book sold!
Buy online by following the link below….there are hundreds of communties throughout the United States and Canada with participating coupon books, and by following the link, Northwest Junior Pipe Band will receive a portion of the sale.
The Northwest Junior Pipe Band 2007 Grade 4 Competition medley recorded at practice a couple weeks ago has been set to a video promoting NWJPB’s “Shop for Scotland” fundraising campaign. Northwest Junior Pipe Band is the first juvenile band from Washington State to plan a trip to Scotland since 1969. Check out the video! Shop for NWJPB with the link from our Merchandise page to Giveline!
A brand new option for supporting NWJPB and the plans to send the band to Scotland in 2008 is available through a unique new opportunity. Giveline is an online shopping resource similar to the others, with one big difference: Every Purchase you make donates funds to the charity of your choice.  If you choose, you can also “donate your discount” to NWJPB, paying full price, but ensuring a larger donation gets put in the NWJPB Scotland 2008 fund.
Support NWJPB youth and help send them to Scotland by starting all of your online shopping here:
Promotional “copy” from Giveline for NWJPB:
“Introducing Giveline as a Revolutionary Way to Support Northwest Junior Pipe Band !
Giveline.com is an online store created for the community-minded shopper, offering more than a million bestselling products including books, movies, music, electronics, housewares, gifts and more. Every purchase generates a substantial donation to Northwest Junior Pipe Band – an amazing average of 16% of store sales, sometimes as high as 33%. Giveline has great products, great service, and great prices – the only difference between Giveline and other major online retailers is that every purchase earns money for our organization. Check it out today, and if you decide to buy, remember that NWJPB will earn significant funds in support of our mission!”
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Contact information:
Todd Schiele, Northwest Junior Pipe Band President
206-508-1261
president@nwjpb.org
www.nwjpb.org
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NORTHWEST JUNIORÂ PIPE BAND ANNOUNCES NEW SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM TO SERVE YOUTH WHO RECEIVE PUBLIC ASSISTANCE
Northwest Junior Pipe Band announced a significant new scholarship program to help members of the band as it prepares its members to compete in the World Pipe Band Championships in Glasgow, Scotland 2008.
Northwest Junior Pipe Band (a 501(c)3 organization) is a competition and performance pipe band of youth through age 18 committed to excellence in traditional Scottish and Irish music education, and the values of dedication, practice, teamwork, respect, responsibility, community service and tradition.
The music scholarship program is important to improve services to the youth in communities NWJPB serves throughout Western Washington, from Anacortes to Snohomish to Auburn and beyond. Youth interested in joining NWJPB as well as existing members of NWJPB who receive public assistance (from reduced lunches to unemployment insurance or food stamps) are encouraged to apply for as many as five scholarships available to support youth 18 and under interested in learning the bagpipes or drums (including snare, bass, or tenor) from a qualified private instructor. Recipients must be members of Northwest Junior Pipe Band or participate in one of the group lesson programs NWJPB instructors provide.
A second scholarship program was also announced to benefit all members of the band, which will provide workshops to band members, as well as provide opportunities to attend summer camps and workshops for pipers and drummers on a random drawing/rotation basis.
Ticket orders and donations are really pouring in now for the Northwest Junior Pipe Band 2nd Annual Spring Concert! Mark your calendars for our 1 hour Matinee at 3:00 pm or our full concert and Silent Auction April 14th. The thought of helping send 30 kids to Scotland to compete with and learn from the best pipe bands in the world, as well as the help provided to the NWJPB education programs and mission are really starting to generate a lot of enthusiasm.
Special thanks and recognition are deserved by several organizations. You’ll find more information on our website under our new supporters page about the many donors, but we thought it was important to call your attention to these major donors:
Camano Sail and Power has donated $800.00 worth of Sail or Power Boat cruises around Whidbey or Camano Islands! Camano Sail and Power offers US Sailing National Certification, basic keelboat instruction, and small boat instruction from basic to advanced including competition, as well as Salmon Fishing, Bird Watching and Whale Watching! Just about anything you can do on the water, Camano Sail and Power can help! Email camanosail@camano.net for more information, or call  425-314-9824.
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Board Game Geek is one of the premier online resources for board and card game information, references and reviews. Their online community is supporting NWJPB’s plans for Scotland with individual donations, as well as ticket donations to organizations like Big Brothers, Big Sisters. Their donations just keep coming. Today we received a $200.00 donation from someone with very fond memories of the value received in their high school band. What a wonderful way to give back…sending a great group of youth pipers and drummers to enjoy the premier competition for pipers and drummers everywhere! We’ve also received 5 donations of $50.00 each from this great community. If you have any interest in board games, or if you tried Monopoly and didn’t think you liked board games, we encourage you to check out their website. They have reviews and information about more than 3,000 board games, as well as specials with game companies, instruction manual downloads, game discussions and more!
The Kenmore Grocery Outlet has donated several items to our Silent Auction, as well as fully outfitting our concessions stand with soda for the concert!! We encourage all of our local supporters and members to swing by Grocery Outlet in Kenmore to say thanks, and stock up your cupboards!
This is a very exciting time for NWJPB members. Just over two weeks left before our concert, just over a week before our first competition of the season for our Grade 4 band at the BC Pipers’ Indoor competition next Saturday, April 7th! A new Grade 5 band ready to compete in Washington events this summer…all that hard work and practice is going to pay off, and we’re looking forward to an incredible season! Get your tickets now before they’re all gone! http://www.nwjpb.org/merch
Northwest Junior Pipe Band members started posting black and white fliers around the greater Seattle area last week, and this week has a very attractive new advertisement you’ll start seeing around town. A sample added here. The concert is really picking up momentum, ticket orders are coming in and we’ll be posting a silent auction catalog very soon! We hope everyone can make the show this year!
See www.nwjpb.org to purchase tickets.
The first major fundraiser on our path toward Scotland is almost a month away still, and already we’ve managed to put more than $2000.00 in our Scotland Savings account, with generous donations from members of the Caledonian/St. Andrews Society of Seattle topping the cash donation list. We have a new member of the band (an up and coming 7 year old snare drummer) who held a party on St. Patrick’s day which a few NWJPB members played at. They passed the hat for us and we raised $374.00! There’s an online game forum community … www.boardgamegeek.com who has collectively donated 138.00 plus two different sets of tickets we’ll be working with Boys and Girls Clubs or Big Brothers / Big Sisters in our area to pass tickets on to as well.
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