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First time winners dominated the Open Piping events at the 2016 BCPA Annual Gathering. Zephan Knichel of Surrey, BC captured the Open Piping Aggregate, winnning the March, Strathspey & Reel and Jig events. Andrew Lee won the MacCrimmon Memorial Cairn for Open Piping Piobaireachd and Kevin McLean captured…
A new “All Instruments Session” is being introduced at the Annual Gathering on Saturday March 26, 2016 from 12:45 – 2:30 pm in the Hub area. It is a forum for pipers and drummers to bring along their other instruments such as small pipes, uilleann pipes, whistles, bodhrans, guitars, etc and play pipe tunes together…
Links to the Schedules for the 2016 BCPA Annual Gathering are now posted on the main page of the BCPA website https://archive.bcpipers.org NOTE: The Band Competition starts at 3:30 pm on the Saturday
Links to the Orders of Play for the 2016 BCPA Annual Gathering are now posted on the main page of the BCPA website https://archive.bcpipers.org On March 22, links to the events schedules will also be posted on the main page. As in previous years, the following Annual Gathering events will be livestreamed at http://livestream.com/bcpipers/AnnualGathering2016 Friday…
The Mary MacKinnon Memorial Service Award for 2016 will be presented to long time BCPA Photographer and former BCPA Board member and webmaster Ken MacKenzie. The award will be presented to Ken during the Annual Gathering awards ceremony on Saturday, March 26, 2016.
A reminder of the Piobaireachd Club meeting Friday, March 18 at the home of Bob and Mary McIlwaine. Seumas Coyne from California will be the featured piper for the evening. The start time will be 7:30 pm. The address is 3587 West 32nd Ave, Vancouver, BC (Updated Feb 29 to show correct address)
The complete results of the 2016 February BCPA Mini-Gathering are now posted on the Results page. They include the per event results for February, and aggregate winners of the 2015/16 season Mini-Gatherings. Photos from the 2016 February BCPA Mini-Gathering are posted on the BCPA Photo Gallery. Our thanks to William Kennedy of the Northwest Junior…
James P. Troy won the inaugural Boney Music Invitational Competition Recital that was held in the evening of February 13, 2016 at the Halpern Centre of Simon Fraser University’s Burnaby campus in front of an audience of over 100 attendees. Alastair Lee placed second with Jori Chisholm, Andrew Lee, and Brittney Otto also competing in the…
Alan MacLeod, former world juvenile piping champion and the piper who changed traditional Celtic music when he joined the Tannahill Weavers and introduced bagpiping to this genre, will be putting on two piping workshops in the Vancouver area. The dates are Saturdays February 27 and April 16, from 1 – 4 pm, at the Port…
Links to the schedule and orders of play for the Feb 20, 2016 BCPA Mini-Gathering are now posted on the main page of the BCPA website https://archive.bcpipers.org
Online entry for the 2016 BCPA Annual Gathering is now open at the link that appears on the main page of the BCPA website ( www.bcpipers.org ).
