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“FIRED UP” will feature Bucksburn and District Pipe Band and Boghall and Bathgate Caledonia Pipe Band in an “end of season” concert on the 9th October 2010 at the Aberdeen Music Hall.

One of the greatest Pipe Band events to take place in the North East for over 20 years, hopes to attract a sell-out crowd with Boghall and Bathgate being the main attraction with performances from Bucksburn’s youth and senior Bands.

The whole idea of the concert is to heighten the interest and excitement within the North East Pipe Band world and to hopefully encourage youngsters to take up piping or drumming.
 
Tickets are priced at £15 each and are available to all North East Bands without incurring a ticket booking fee if ordered through Bucksburn Pipe Band. 

I ask you kindly to forward this information onto your fellow band members and supporters in the hope that we get your full support along with a healthy number of ticket sales.

If interested, please complete and return the ticket order form (PDF), including payment, no later than the 31st August to :-

Faye Gauld
“Strathbeg”
8 Broomhill Place
Aberdeen
AB10 6JZ

Click on the poster to the right to download a full size poster.

Download the Ticket Order Form here.

The next Relay for Life in Huntly will be staged on the 3rd and 4th July 2010. As part of a full 24 hours of family entertainment, the organisers would like to stage a massed pipe band session between 11.30 and 12.30 on Sunday 4th July 2010.

More information is available here, and any band wishing to take part should contact Alisanne Ennis on 07733303161 or Alisanne.ennis@atosorigin.com   

With the final North of Scotland Outdoor contest being held in showery weather at Mintlaw's Aden Country Park, the 2009 Champions of Champions Bands and Drum Majors have been crowned.

Drum Major

Adult Drum Major - Michael Leitch, Inverurie Pipe Band

Grade One

Band - Grampian Police Pipe Band
Drum Corps - Grampian Police Pipe Band

Grade Two

Band - Grampian Police Pipe Band
Drum Corps - Grampian Police Pipe Band

Grade Three

Band - Deeside Caledonia Pipe Band
Drum Corps - Deeside Caledonia Pipe Band

Grade Four

Band - Buchan Pipe Band
Drum Corps - Buchan Pipe Band

Our congratulations to the winners, and commisserations to those who missed out on a prize this time round. We wish everyone all the best for a hard Winter in the practice hall and look forward to seeing everyone out on the circuit again next year.

Looking forward, good luck to NoS Bands competing at the final Major Championships at Cowal Highland Gathering. Please remember to support the Branch at the upcoming social Night on Saturday 3rd October 2009, and the Branch Solo Piping & Drumming on Saturday 7th November 2009.

Details from the PDQB Session held in Huntly in April are now online.

Information includes the PDQB Syallbus and also a Comparison Guide to aid the change over from Structured Learning to PDQB.

Visit the Education pages for all the details.

There werea total of 6 entries from 5 different composers for the competition to compose a pipe tune to commemorate the centenery of the 47th Aberdeen (Culter) Boys Brigade. They were:

Paul Harrison - Dublin Ardross, by Alness
James Robertson - Kirkwall
Robert Grant - Peterculter
Andrew Clark - Logie Pert,by Montrose
William Hepburn Snr. - Turriff (2)

The judges for the competition were:

Stuart Reid - former Captain of the 47th and P/M of the Pipe Band
George Cowie - former Captain of the 47th and P/M of the Pipe Band, Centenry Committee Chairman
Mike Reid - present Captain of the 47th and P/M of the Pipe Band
Steve Insch - present P/M of the Culter & District Pipe Band and former P/M of the 47th band
Callum Lamont - current member of the 47th and Pipe Band.

After listening to all the tunes, not knowing which tune was written by whom, a vote was taken and the judging panel unanimously agreed on a tune. The tune was then revealed to have been written by Robert Grant of Peterculter.

Many thanks to all the entries for composing 6 very good unes, but unfortunately there had to be only 1 winner and congratulations go to Robert for his winning entry, a four parted 12/8 March.

The final youth pipe and drum workshop for this session is on Saturday 7th March 2009 at Inverurie Academy.

We've a good number booked in already, but there are some spaces for those who haven't managed to attend yet. If you wan to come along and don't have an application form, send an email to info@tradarr.com with a contact number and we'll book you in over the phone. You are most welcome to turn up on the day at 9.40am sharpand we'll get you signed up then also.

We all had a great morning at Stonehaven last weekend. So much in fact that many are keen to come again to the next workshop.

Please contact Robert Aitken or Lorna McLaren for more information.