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Recently in 2017, the band won the U.S. Pipe Band Championships in Norfolk, Virginia. As of 2019, the school's Alumni Pipe Band is ranked 2nd in the world. In the school year of 2011–2012, the school allowed female musicians to play in the bagpipe and drum band. [6] [7]
2019 saw The Pipe Band Club return once more to Scotland to campaign in Grade 2 for the World Championships. Their first outing on the tour was North Berwick Highland Games. Grade 2 featured ten bands and was won by St Thomas Alumni (USA), with The Pipe Band Club taking second place.
The Stuart Highlanders is a pipe band based in Massachusetts, competing in Grade 5 which formerly also had a Grade 1 band. The Grade 1 band had been Grade 2, and was promoted to Grade 1 in 2014 after merging with the Oran Mor 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.
Formed in 1916, Worcester Kiltie Pipe Band is one of the oldest active pipe bands in the United States. The band was founded by Thomas Denholm, a Scottish immigrant to the Worcester area. Denholm was familiar with the Clan Scott organization, and they assisted the early band with fundraising and events. To this day, the band wears the Scott tartan.
The 78th Highlanders (Halifax Citadel) Pipe Band is a grade one pipe band formed in 1983 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. [5] They work in conjunction with a re-enactor troop for the 78th (Highlanders) Regiment of Foot , the regiment that spent almost three years stationed at Citadel Hill (Fort George) (1869-1871).
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Livingstone's successor, Doug MacRae, led the band from 2010-2023. Under MacRae’s leadership, the band won several North American Championship titles and continued its unbroken record since 1984 of attendance at the World Pipe Band Championships in Glasgow. [7] The band is currently led by pipe major Michael Grey and drum sergeant Drew ...