Band Performances
We have another appearance coming up on King 5 News at Noon Wednesday 3/17, but the last week has been very busy for Northwest Junior Pipe Band. Here are some of the media glimpses we’ve found of the band this week as Seattle celebrates Irish Week leading up to St. Patrick’s Day. NWJPB on Q13...
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August 16th, the World Pipe Band Championships in Glasgow Scotland. The day NWJPB had been planning, fundraising, and practicing for for years for had finally arrived. There is no pipe band competition like the World Championships anywhere. The field was enormous; there were 224 pipe bands competing and 23 bands in NWJPB’s grade, Novice...
Northwest Junior Pipe Band struggled through a grueling but fun weekend at the Pacific Northwest Highland Games Friday July 25th, through Sunday July 27th for the close to our North American season. NWJPB Grade IV had it’s most successful season ever at this level, with 4 first place, two second place, and 1 third...
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...
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!...
I’ve heard people suggest that kids shouldn’t start with a pipe band until they’re 10 or 12. We’ve removed the 8 year old minimum requirement from our recruiting statement because we’ve seen some very talented kids joining the band, or starting starting lessons younger and younger. Techniques for teaching kids at younger ages are...
NWJPB’s first Scotland Fundraiser at “Gung Haggis Fat Choy” at Ocean City was a huge success! There were more than 120 people in attendance at the “inaugural” Seattle Gung Haggis Fat Choy event; a unique merger of Robbie Burns night and Chinese New Year. NWJPB marched in with some favorite marches, doing a great...
The Northwest Junior Pipe Band has been invited by The Caledonian & St. Andrews Society of Seattle to participate in the first ever Gung Haggis Fat Choy event in the Seattle area. Gung Haggis Fat Choy has been a remarkably successful, exciting event in Vancouver BC, featured on CBC Television and has grown to...
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