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Jim Kilpatrick MBE (born 11 August 1956) is a Scottish pipe band drummer, and leading drummer of the Spirit of Scotland Pipe Band.He has won numerous drumming titles as both a solo drummer and in pipe band competitions, enjoying his greatest competitive success with the Shotts and Dykehead Caledonia Pipe Band.
A pipe band is a musical ensemble consisting of pipers and drummers. There are many such bands in the world, which play for ceremonial purposes, recreation, competition or all three. This list encompasses only notable pipe bands with their own Wikipedia page.
The band was named after, and affiliated with, the company Muirhead & Sons, a sawmill based in Grangemouth and founded by George A. Muirhead in the 1880s. [2] [3] Muirhead & Sons Pipe Band was founded in 1928, and started competing in 1932. [4] After a hiatus during World War II, the band reformed in 1946. [4]
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Muirhead & Sons Pipe Band: Renfrew Pipe Band: Shotts & Dykehead: 1955: Muirhead & Sons Pipe Band: 1954: Edinburgh City Police Pipe Band: Red Hackle Pipe Band* Muirhead & Sons Pipe Band: 1953: Clan MacRae Society Pipe Band: Muirhead & Sons Pipe Band: Red Hackle Pipe Band: 1952: Shotts & Dykehead: 1951: City of Glasgow Police Pipe Band: Muirhead ...
Lonach Pipe band, Edinburgh Scotland, 2009. Pipe bands are among the most recognizable forms of traditional Scottish music. Scottish folk music (also Scottish traditional music) is a genre of folk music that uses forms that are identified as part of the Scottish musical tradition. There is evidence that there was a flourishing culture of ...
The National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland (NYPBoS) is a youth pipe band headed by Steven Blake, [1] consisting of over 100 members who teach and perform around the British isles. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The band was founded in 2003 as part of the National Piping Centre in Glasgow and features pipers and drummers between the ages of ten and twenty five. [ 4 ]
Polig Monjarret led the introduction of the Great Highland bagpipe to Brittany during the Celtic revival of the 1920s Breton folk music scene, inventing the bagad, a pipe band incorporating a binioù braz section, a bombarde section, a drums section, and in recent years almost any added grouping of wind instruments such as the saxophones, and ...