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…
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We’re throwing a party and you are invited! Join us at the 2017 BCPA Annual Ceilidh, where we plan to celebrate our wonderful volunteers and share some great music! The Ceilidh will take place at Club Ilia Eatery and Lounge, 8902 University High Street, on Burnaby Mountain. Club Ilia is located at the Cornerstone Building…
BCPA congratulates Life Member Jack Lee on winning the 2017 Glenfiddich Piping Championship at Blair Castle in Blair Atholl, Scotland on October 28, 2017. Jack won the championship with a 1st in the Piobaireachd and a 2nd in the March, Strathspey & Reel. It was his second Glenfiddich Piping Championship win, his first in 2003.…
The Celtic Arts Winter School is offering a limited number of piping, drumming and fiddling scholarships for the Winter School 2018. The deadline for applications is Wednesday, November 1, 2017. The school offers sessions for Highland pipes, drumming, smallpipes and fiddle with the addition of guitar, new for 2018. For more information, please visit the…
Every year BC/Yukon Command of The Royal Canadian Legion partners with the BC Lions Football club to organize a half-time show dedicated to honouring our Veterans and current serving members of the Canadian Armed Forces. The Salute to Veterans Half Time Show will be held on Saturday, November 4th and we hope that your band…
The Celebration of Life for Andrew William “Boney” Bonar will be held at the Mary Pattison Chapel at Pacific Academy, 10238 168 St, Surrey, BC at 3:00 pm on Sunday, October 22, 2017. In 2016, Andrew created the Boney Music Invitational to raise monies for brain cancer research. At his request, the BC Pipers Association…
The Memorial Service for BCPA Life Member Ian McDougall will be held on Saturday, October 21, 2017 at 11:00 am at the Cascade Community Church (Salvation Army), 35190 Delair Road, Abbotsford. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Kidney Foundation or a charitable foundation of your choice. The link to Ian’s obituary…
BCPA Life Member Andrew Bonar passed away on October 13, 2017 surrounded by his family following a courageous battle against brain cancer. “Boney”, as he was affectionately known, was a top Open piper who won all the major BCPA solo awards multiple times (MacCrimmon Memorial Cairn, Knockout Final, Annual Gathering Aggregate, Grand Aggregate), won top…
BCPA Life Member and former President Ian McDougall passed away on October 11, 2017. Ian was the long serving Pipe Major of the competitively successful Abbotsford Legion Pipe Band, prize winning Open piper, adjudicator, and respected teacher of young pipers and juvenile bands in the Fraser Valley. He dedicated many years to the promotion and…
The results of BCPA work on realigning band grades and band grade assignments for the 2018 season is presented here. https://archive.bcpipers.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/BCPA-announcement-on-realignment-of-band-grades-and-bands-for-2018-season.pdf All BCPA region competition pipe bands are advised to carefully review the document, which will be discussed as part of the online Pipe Bands Leadership Forum Conference on October 14, 2017. Conference registration details have previously…
There will be a Piobaireachd Club meeting to be held at the home of Ron Sutherland, 4169 Lions Avenue, North Vancouver. It will be on Friday, October 20, 7:30PM Jack Lee will be the piper of the month. He is one of the ten pipers invited to the prestigious Glenfiddich competition at Blair Castle in…
BCPA congratulates the following BCPA members on their prizes at the 2017 Nicol-Brown Amateur Piping Invitational competition on October 7 in Scotia, NY. Alistair Bevan – Overall winner – 1st March, Strathspey & Reel – 1st 6/8 Marches – 2nd Piobaireachd Charlie Morris – 3rd Overall – 4th Piobaireachd – 5th March,…
Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, You are cordially invited to the 2017, St Andrew’s Ball, Vancouver. Saturday, Nov 18th, 2017, 6pm-11pm, Ticket price $130 at the Coast Plaza Hotel, 1763 Comox Street Four course formal dinner and all night Scottish Country dancing, with music provided by the Vancouver Fiddle Orchestra and entertainment by Shot of…
