10 years ago this month, my Dad died from the same brain tumor that took Andrew Bonar’s life. My Dad, who bought me my first set of pipes, who drove me to my private lessons, and who with my Mum celebrated their wedding again as part of the “Highland Wedding” ceremony created by Lt. Col…
On May 14, 2018, Jeanette Bonar and BCPA Rob MacNeil presented Steven Rayson and Fatima Hassam of the BC Cancer Foundation with a cheque for $2,223.50 from the proceeds of the 2018 Boney Music Memorial Invitational Piping Competition and Recital toward brain cancer research. BCPA would like to thank everyone who contributed and donated to…
February 24, 2018 – Burnaby, BC – Alastair Lee captured the 3rd annual Boney Music Memorial Invitational Piping Competition and Recital, held at the Halpern Centre on the Burnaby campus of Simon Fraser University. The event raised over $2,170 for brain cancer research for the British Columbia Cancer Foundation, $828 of which was donated from…
Andrew Lee of Surrey, British Columbia, stunned the audience during his 20-minute performance and was named champion of the second annual Boney Music Invitational. A panel of five anonymous judges unanimously chose Andrew the winner with Alastair Lee placing second – also by unanimous decision. Andrew Lee was invited to the competition after having…
