A reminder that the entries closing date for the 2022 February BCPA Online Mini-Gathering is February 4, 2021 Full details can be found at the 2022 February BCPA Online Mini-Gathering Registration. BCPA would like to clarify some of the points in the 2022 February BCPA Online Mini-Gathering Information Guide. This event will operate in the same format…
Join piper and composer Jim Barrie on February 5, 2022 for the next BCPA Saturday seminar on the Cameron-style of piobaireachd. Jim was taught the Cameron-style by his father, William Barrie, who was a pupil of renowned pipers John MacDougall Gillis and Robert Reid. In 2013, Jim gave a presentation to the Piobaireachd Society’s annual…
The following is the third and final article in a 40th anniversary series about Jack Lee’s Gold Medal and Silver Star wins at the Northern Meeting in Inverness in 1981. “The year 1981 seems so long ago but I still have vivid memories from that amazing summer. It was the 2nd year in which I…
Ishabel Ross was Secretary of the BC Pipers’ Association in the 1960s and along with her late husband Life Member Donald Ross Sr (who created the BCPA Knockouts in 1969) were extraordinary volunteers and supporters of the BC Pipers’ Association over many decades. The following is her story of attending the Gold Medal winning performance…
