In honour of Canada Day we provide you a snippet from one of our favourite TV shows, the BBC Scotland production, “Still Game“.  The clip here comes from a classic episode set in Toronto (that’s our Canada Day connection!). Read the rest of this entry »

Toronto Police Pipe Band’s Grade 3 team cranked it up in Lindsay, Ontario, and showed off great form.  The grade 3 band supported the newest addition to the Pipers’ & Pipe Band Society of Ontario’s Highland Games circuit:   the Lindsay Games.  The June 27th event saw the band perform their medley, an all new creation designed for the 2009 competition season. Read the rest of this entry »

Here’s your chance to catch the grade 1 band in concert, Tuesday, June 23 in Aurora, Ontario.

The band has planned a self-funded trip to the Lorient Interceltic Festival in Brittany, France (July 31st – August 8th) and have scheduled a local  sneak preview of their Lorient concert.  Read the rest of this entry »

Both the grade 1 and grade 3 bands attended the 2009 Georgetown Highland Games and kicked off their 2009 competition season in a big way.  Read the rest of this entry »

On Saturday, May 23, 2009, the Grade 3 Toronto Police Pipe Band traveled to Kingston Ontario to participate in the Fifth Annual “Ontario Power Generation” Celtfest. Scott Bell and members of Kingston’s own Rob Roy Pipe Band organized the event, which was held in the Rideau Acres Campground.
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Tom Foote and I, having spent many an hour on the road together pursuing the pastime of drumming, have developed a certain breed of comedy only available to, and perhaps only understood by, those who have shared similar experiences in the quest of a common goal. This humor emanates from a need for entertainment, and utter road-crazy, both of which I’ll attempt to convey here via illustration and written word.
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The great 1960 Oscar-nominated movie is one of our favourites.  It is available on DVD.  Have a look here:   Read the rest of this entry »

Dydd Gwyl Dewi Dedwydd!

Happy St David’s Day.  Read the rest of this entry »

Though I have not been piping for long, I’ve been given lots of good, and -  well – some not so good advice.   

An example of the bad: “Don’t play sheepskin bags. They smell, and require TONS of maintenance.”   

 Well, turns out that I now play a sheepskin bag, and love it!  They don’t smell, and don’t require much maintenance at all.    Read the rest of this entry »

As the man once said, when it comes to success, “the secret is: there is no secret – it just takes a lot of hard work” and (I’m adding this part) ‘grit’.  Grit: a supremely excellent word. 

Here’s your inspirational photo of the hour (taken while walking along Cowcaddens Road, towards The National Piping Centre, Glasgow, [August 2008] with TPPB alumnus, Derek Midgley).  Read the rest of this entry »