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WEST DUNDEE — Cynthia Romano remembers as a high school student standing at attention, dressed in the full plaid uniform of the Dundee Scots, the former Dundee Community High Schools legendary marching band.

Then, the announcers voice: “And now presenting the Dundee Scots from Dundee, Illinois”

Former Dundee Scots recall revelry, remember director :: The Courier News :: Lifestyles

THIRTEEN-YEAR OLD Aaron Stone marches to the beat of a different drummer — his 9-year old sister, Amber.

Hes a bagpiper with the Northwest Junior Pipe Band. She plays the Scottish snare drum with the same group.

Young siblings part of world-class pipe band.

NWJPBlog » NWJPB featured in media about World Championships on YouTube.

“Friendship”, “getting together”, “travel-l ing together to events” “the sense of accomplishment from working really hard and doing well” are some of the best aspects of the Rob Roy Pipe Band & Highland Dancers according to their young members. Eighteen of the 25 pipers and drummers competing with the band this summer were under the age of 19. These young people all began their piping/drumming career through Rob Roy’s instructional program and developed their skills to a level that enables them to compete with the Grade 4 Competition Band

The Whig Standard - Ontario, CA
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Saturday, September 13, 2008

Seventh Annual NYPD Pipes and Drums Memorial Concert

Town Hall Auditorium

7:00 PM

$40.00

The Seventh Annual NYPD Pipes and Drums Memorial Concert will take place on Saturday, September 13th, 2008 at 7:00 PM at the Town Hall Auditorium, 123 W. 43 St., NY, NY. The following are scheduled to perform:

• NYPD Emerald Society Pipes and Drums
• NYPD Marching Band
• The Cleveland Police Pipes and Drums
• The Police Pipes and Drums of Bergen County, NJ
• The Boston Police Gaelic Column
• The Quantico Marine Band
• And a special Performance by Famed Irish Tenor, Dr. Ronan Tynan

(Other performers yet to be announced.)

The post concert celebration will be held at the Manhattan Center at 311 west 34st New York, NY.

Please also join us on Friday September 12th at 1 P.M. for our Memorial Parade that begins at Battery Park and proceeds to our memorial at the marina in Battery City. All active and retired members are invited to participate and a light lunch will be provided afterwards by the Hudson River.

Proceeds of the Memorial Concert will benefit the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association Widow’s and Children’s Fund and The Armed Forces Family Scholarship and Assistance Fund.

To purchase tickets using your credit card click the PAYPAL.

NYPD Pipes and Drums.

Tucked away close to London Bridge, the Mudlark Pub might normally take a while to find. Tonight, however, you could locate it blindfold. Upstairs, as out of place as a troupe of morris dancers round the back of Glasgow Central Station, five pipers are playing their hearts out. Even with the windows closed the decibel levels are substantial. They are Manawatu, a Scottish pipe band from New Zealand, whose unison playing is so precise that it sounds like a single instrument. Towards the end they march downstairs into the street where they do a moonlit lap of honour, watched by a slightly bemused-looking crowd.

Skirl power as new bagpipe bands spring up - Times Online

Airfare and accommodations in Scotland — expensive. Rehearsing three times a day for six days confined to a hotel room — exhausting. Winning second in the 2008 World Piping Champio n s h i p s– makes it all worthwhile.

North American champions, the Paris Port Dover Pipe Band, showed the world it has talent last week. A crew of 51 people travelled to Glasgow to perform on the world piping stage.

“It is unbelievable,” said Port Dover drummer Chris Faulkner. “I knew we would do well but I didn’t think we would do that well. To be right there at the top.”

The band has done well all year, winning three competitions, including the Ontario and North American pipe band championships, and placing third in another competition. The group has been rehearsing for months and s efforts when members arrived in Scotland on Aug. 10.

“It wasn’t a sightseeing trip,” said pipe major Marell Gibson. “We were practising at least three times a day, six days of the week.”

Brantford Expositor - Ontario, CA
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Its a historical day for the Kincardine Scottish Pipe Band.

The Pipe Band is celebrating a milestone this year — its 100th anniversary and today is their 17th annual Mass Band Festival.

Drum Major Scott Telford says approximately 300 pipers and drummers from about 15 bands will play at Victoria Park.

Telford says the entertainment starts at noon and runs till midnight but the main attraction of the day is at 8 PM with the Saturday Night Parade along Queen Street

Bayshore Broadcasting Corporation.

A PIPE band from West Lothian will take pride of place at this year's Broadisland Gathering Festival in Ballycarry, the organisers have announced.

The event is the longest-established Ulster Scots Festival in the British Isles, having been founded in 1993

Scottish band to lead Ballycarry’s Broadisland Gathering - Larne Today
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A section of the Port Dover-Paris Pipe Band has returned from successfully competing in the World Competitions in Glasgow, Scotland. The Category 5 section of the local pipe band placed ‘second’ in the world-wide competitions last week against other top bands competing at that level.

Prior to departing for Scotland the Category 5 band competed at Maxville, Ontario near Ottawa in the North American competitions. The Port Dover-Paris pipers and drummers were judged the champions … the best category 5 pipe band in North America.

Port Dover, Ontario, Canada welcome to inportdover.com, home of the Maple Leaf newspaper.