Many thanks to all of the judges and the competitors who made time for our events this year! This month, we had a miscommunication with our drumming judge and unfortunately needed to cancel drumming competitions. Thank you William Nichols for coming down from Blaine to judge our piping events. Will started piping in Alaska at the age of 6 and travelled down to Washington for...
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 –...
Thanks to David Keachie for judging drumming this month, and Patrick Downing for returning to judge piping. David is an accomplished drummer and currently lead stroke for the Washington Scottish Pipe Band Grade 3; you may recognize him from WPA in Adult piping competitions over the last couple of years; he’s re-focusing on Snare Drumming. Patrick recently made the leap to the Professional grade of...
