news and information from Washington Pipers’ Association or its members and partners
Solo Competition signups are available for the Whidbey Island Highland Games at this link>>. Deadline for sign up is August 1st, 2010. The event location changed this year to Langley Middle School in Langley, Washington on August 14th.
Have you seen these bagpipes? They’re a custom set of Soutar DS-3b pipes with blackwood projecting mounts. A student piper’s home in Portland was broken into and his pipes and practice chanters were stolen. The Portland case # is 10-41347 Filed by Officer Trent Wiest. Portland Police Department - 503-823-3333 503-823-HELP (4357) – Crime Stoppers of Oregon
From the Seattle Times Obituaries - additional information added 5/7/2010 Ron OSWELL Age 62, passed away May 1st in Seattle where he was born on August 7, 1947. A Const. Supt. for 39 years, he was the first bagpiper at Shorecrest High School and the first Pipe Major in 1965-66. He was followed by his brother, Ken, as P/M in 1966-67.played with the Washington Scottish...
Update from Stephanie Sprinkle: The gavel is down. Join us at Langley Middle School celebrating the Whidbey Island Highland Games on Saturday, August 14. The Fairgrounds personnel approved our Beer Garden just a step over that invisible property line. Great view of the field and front row seats to Scottish Athletics! A wonderful opportunity to peruse the shops in Langley and a magnificent view...
After 12 years at Greenbank Farms on Whidbey Island, another event was scheduled the same weekend as the Whidbey Island Highland Games and they’re in a mad scramble to find a replacement venue. Here’s a scan of the front page of the South Whidbey Record where the story appears. If you have any connections or ideas about locations that might work on Whidbey Island, please...
Féis Shiàt-WHAT? I believe it means the Gathering in Seattle in Gaelic, but I know who to ask! There’s an annual event held at Fort Warden in Port Townsend, WA, coming up this June 16-20 where you can learn a “focus area” Celtic art such as bagpiping in the morning, then “Try It” with other classes in the afternoon, such as Gaelic Language, Gaelic...
I read this post on the JWT Reedmakers blog with much interest, it’ll help if you read it first: And the Winner Is… James W. Troy and his son James T. Troy and daughter Jacquie Troy are and have a long history with the Vancouver Island Pipers’ Club. Jacquie stepped into club leadership in 2006 when the club was on the brink of extinction. Her father, James...
Great appreciation to our talented judges today, Curt Watts, lead drummer with Greighlan Crossing Pipe Band made the trip down from British Columbia to judge snare and bass drummers. Micah Babinski (links to Who’s who in Bagpiping article by Andrew Lenz), a Washington based Professional bagpiper with a very successful history. Due to our previously scheduled piping judge being needed at a band performance, Kevin Auld...
Chanter – 6/8 March Stuart MacDonald – Northwest Junior Pipe Band Grade 5 Piping – Slow Air Diego Alvarez – Northwest Junior Pipe Band Katrina Jones – Northwest Junior Pipe Band Peter North – Northwest Junior Pipe Band Karl Stahlfeld – Northwest Junior Pipe Band Morgan Schiele – Northwest Junior Pipe Band Russell Prewitt Adult Piping – Slow Air Diane Axworthy Cleda Thompson –...
We’re excited to welcome two current champion competitors to Washington Pipers’ Association competitions this Saturday, J. Reid Maxwell and Brian McKenzie Drumming will be judged by J. Reid Maxwell, certainly one of today’s most decorated drummers. When the SFU Pipe Band captured the Worlds in 1995, Reid became the first person in history to lead the drum corps of two different bands to be named...
