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A link to the solo events and band events schedules for the 2019 Skagit Valley Highland Games is now posted here: https://archive.bcpipers.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/2019-Skagit-Valley-Highland-Games-Schedules.pdf More information about the Skagit Valley Highland Games can be found at their website https://celticarts.org/celtic-events/hg19/
A link to the solo events and band events schedules for the 2019 Kamloops Highland Games is now posted here: https://archive.bcpipers.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/2019-Kamloops-Highland-Games-Schedules.pdf Other details are located in the Information Guide located here: https://bcpipers.wildapricot.org/resources/Documents/2018-19/2019%20Kamloops%20Highland%20Games%20Information%20Guide.pdf More information about the Kamloops Highland Games can be found at their website https://www.kamloopshighlandgames.ca
The complete results of the 2019 Penticton Scottish Festival are now posted on the Results page. https://archive.bcpipers.org/services/results/ They include the per event results, the aggregate/overall winners in the solo and band events, and details of the band results. The Grand Aggregates Standings are also updated on the Results page. Photos from the Penticton Scottish Festival…
A link to the Orders of Play for the 2019 Skagit Valley Highland Games SATURDAY is now posted here: https://archive.bcpipers.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/2019-Skagit-Valley-Highland-Games-OOP.pdf The orders of play for SUNDAY will be posted shortly. The complete schedule of events will be posted on Wednesday, July 10, 2019 More information about the Skagit Valley Highland Games can be found at…
A link to the Orders of Play for the 2019 Kamloops Highland Games is now posted here: https://archive.bcpipers.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/2019-Kamloops-Highland-Games-OOP.pdf The complete schedule of events will be posted on Wednesday, July 10, 2019. Other details are located in the Information Guide located here: https://bcpipers.wildapricot.org/resources/Documents/2018-19/2019%20Kamloops%20Highland%20Games%20Information%20Guide.pdf More information about the Kamloops Highland Games can be found at their website…
A link to the solo events and band events schedules for the 2019 Penticton Scottish Festival is now posted here: https://archive.bcpipers.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/2019-Penticton-Scottish-Festival-Schedules.pdf A reminder that Opening Ceremonies and Massed Bands are at 12:30 pm Other details are located in the Information Guide located here: https://bcpipers.wildapricot.org/resources/Documents/2018-19/2019%20Penticton%20Scottish%20Festival%20Information%20Guide.pdf
To All Pipe Band Members, The Royal Canadian Legion | BC/Yukon Command would like to thank you for your participation in previous BC Lions Salutes to Veterans. We would be glad if you could join us again on Saturday November 2, 2019 during the half-time show at BC Place. Attached is your official invitation. Would…
A link to the Orders of Play for the 2019 Penticton Scottish Festival is now posted here: https://archive.bcpipers.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/2019-Penticton-Scottish-Festival-OOP.pdf Other details are located in the Information Guide located here: https://bcpipers.wildapricot.org/resources/Documents/2018-19/2019%20Penticton%20Scottish%20Festival%20Information%20Guide.pdf The complete schedule of events will be posted on Wednesday, July 3, 2019.
Edinburgh’s Festival of Ireland (EFI) is pleased to announce that it received a donation of Highland, Lowland and European bagpipes, pipe and practice chanters, bagpipe books, reeds and accessories . All these will at a special sale at McTears auctioneers Glasgow, on Thursday 15th August 2019. This is during the week of Piping Live and…
In late May, BCPA surveyed players who competed in the 2018/19 Mini-Gatherings for their opinions on a possible change of date for the November Mini-Gathering from the 1st Saturday to the 4th Saturday. The key rationale was to provide an increased period to prepare new music for the competition season, from the current period of…
Norma Nicholson Thompson, youngest daughter of Order of Canada Member the late Pipe Major Malcolm Nicholson, C.M, and the first female piper to win the BCPA MacCrimmon Memorial Cairn for Open Piobaireachd in 1964, passed away in Toronto on May 15, 2019. Norma was a prolific prize winner in the Open grade in the 1960s…
Captain (Ret.) Allen McLeod, former piper in the Seaforth Highlanders of Canada Pipes & Drums, City of Port Moody Legion 119 Pipe Band, and Vancouver Police Pipe Band passed away from cancer on May 30, 2019. His multi-faceted life is documented in the following video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GELej36cybM Allen’s Celebration of Life will be held from 2:00…
