You might enjoy this video featuring a soundtrack of a recent band performance:

We thought we’d pass along a photo from our trip to Brittany.  This of the band in mid-performance on stage at the Espace Marine, Festival Interceltique Lorient, August 5, 2009:

Photo: Janet Pollock

The band capped off their much-anticipated self-funded trip to Festival Interceltique Lorient (FIL) Saturday, August 8, with a victory in the Lorient pipe band championships.  
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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.  (more…)

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.  (more…)

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:   (more…)

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.    (more…)