Join piper and composer Jim Barrie on February 5, 2022 for the next BCPA Saturday seminar on the Cameron-style of…
Read more →The following is the third and final article in a 40th anniversary series about Jack Lee’s Gold Medal and Silver…
Read more →Ishabel Ross was Secretary of the BC Pipers’ Association in the 1960s and along with her late husband Life Member…
Read more →Iain MacDonald is the long-time pipe major of the City of Regina Pipe Band and the piper and instructor synonymous…
Read more →It is a remarkable achievement. The year 2021 marked the 40th anniversary of one of the most catalytic events in…
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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 BCPA IT Infrastructure team as been working hard to put together a new website for the BCPA. You may experience an interruption with our website briefly between today and tomorrow as we make the final changes and go live with our new website. It’s time to retire the old website and move forward. Over…
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…
Iain MacDonald is the long-time pipe major of the City of Regina Pipe Band and the piper and instructor synonymous with the advancement of piping and pipe bands in Saskatchewan for decades. In the mid to late 1980’s he lived in the Greater Vancouver area with his wife Barb and played with the SFU Pipe…
It is a remarkable achievement. The year 2021 marked the 40th anniversary of one of the most catalytic events in the history of piping in British Columbia: Jack Lee’s capture of the Gold Medal and Silver Star at the 1981 Northern Meeting, the first by a British Columbia bagpiper. His historic achievement and subsequent teachings…
Looking to create a music track or video for your pipe band during these pandemic times? Music engineer and award-winning piper Alastair Lee will lead the next BCPA weekend seminar on music production on Saturday, January 22 at 9:00 AM. Alastair’s seminar will explain audio recording, mixing and video editing using both free and paid…
Registration for the February 2022 BCPA Mini-Gathering is now open. The Mini-Gathering will be conducted in an online format due to on-going health restrictions. Players will: enter the Mini-Gathering through the BCPA Registration Site record and upload their performances to YouTube during the defined period complete a form with music details and YouTube link and…
BC bagpiper Cameron Bonar has won the 2021 Balmoral Classic Piping and Drumming competition; the youngest person to win the US junior solo bagpiping championship. As the overall winner, 13-year old Cameron won a set of MacRae SL4 Bagpipes by Stuart Liddell. The competition was virtual this year and he was the champion of the…
Join former Triumph Street Pipe Band piper Liam Hilder at 9:00 AM January 8 for a BCPA weekend seminar on piping for highland dancing. Liam’s seminar will provide an overview of the types of highland dances, how competitions are structured, the most important skills necessary to successfully pipe for dancing, how to develop these skills,…
As we begin the 2021 Christmas season, BC Pipers’ Association president Graham Davidson, on behalf of the BCPA board and committees, would like to wish all our members and visitors to this site a safe and happy Christmas season. We hope your stockings are full of new sticks, reeds, tuning tape and chanters and your…
