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 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...
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...
Thanks to Brian McKenzie, local piper and instructor who is among the top professional pipers in the world in solo competitions, recently winning 3rd in 2008 and 2nd in the 2007 Midwest Highland Arts Fund & MWPBA US Silver Medal Piobaireachd Competition at Winter Storm, Thanks also to Steve Roy, multi-talented percussionist, instructor and drumming director for judging Snare and Tenor drumming Saturday. Our new...
Eight pipers and drummers from Washington State–all recent members of WPA–received promotions in their competition grade from the British Columbia Pipers’ Association, announced on September 27th, 2008. The Promotions announcements are available here>> Congratulations to these members for the recognition of their hard work last season. Grade 2 to Grade 1 piping: Christopher Donald Grade 3 to Grade 2 Piping: Alex MacLeod...
Aggregate awards were handed out at end of the May 3rd gathering. To receive the award, competitors must not have won in the same grade previously, and must have competed in 4 of 5 events. Points were awarded in reverse order for the top 6 positions at each event. 1st place: 6 points, 2nd place: 5 points, 3rd place: 4 points, etc. Chanter: Paul...
