Thanks to Brian McKenzie, Winter Storm Silver Medalist and Seattle area piper for adjudicating our piping events today, and Curt Watts, former lead drummer with Greighan Crossing, drummer with Spirit of Scotland, and BCPA certified adjudicator. Thanks also to all the volunteers who helped make the event a success; Karen Gayle, Jennifer Joki, and Kathy Bowie-Vegors, registration & other, Diane Axworthy, Treasurer, Scott DeVight...
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...
The BC Pipers’ Association added an update about the amazing results from our region at the biggest solo competition event for piping and drumming in the United States. Washington State was well represented, with 3 top placings United States Silver Medal for Piobaireachd Brian McKenzie – Seattle Will Nichols – Blaine North American Amateur Drumming Championships – Grade 3 Steven Wheeler – Auburn All...
The first event of the competition season had a modest turn-out, but good music, great adjudicators, and a bonus drumming workshop made for a great day overall. Thanks to Scott Robertson making the trip down from BC, and John Dally for making the trip from Vashon Island. A couple announcements about the season; note that tune requirements are on the last page of the...
Welcome John Dally and Scott Robertson back to WPA events this Saturday. John Dally is one of the founding members of Washington Pipers’ Association, if not the reason we began at all. A master of bagpipes from many regions with a wealth of historical and musical knowledge, John has performed regularly around Western Washington and beyond since the age of 14. Contact information for...
The last event of the season is upon us. Thanks to our award winning and “BCPA certified” adjudicators for coming down from British Columbia this weekend! I will post more about these adjudicators with the results, but David Bowman was the runner up in the 2009 BCPA Drumming Knockout events, an award winning solo drummer who plays with the 2008 World Pipe Band Champion and World Drum Corps champions,...
update 2/1/2009: missing tenor drum results added Great turnout for the 2nd mini-gathering of the season, and a lot of talent was on display. Micah Babinski judged piping events, and John Scullion from Northern Ireland (in town for the Mastery of Scottish Arts events beginning the 6th of February) judged drumming. Washington is continuing to see great growth in talent and continued growth of interest in bagpiping and drumming. Our...
