Strathpeffer & District Pipe Band
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| The Pipe Band performing at Brahan Estate |
The Pipe Band will return to the Square in May 2013
Strathpeffer & District Pipe Band
REUNION
Saturday 23rd March 2013
AT 7.30pm
VICTORIA SUITE
DINGWALL
Past and present band and committee members are invited to a reunion to mark the 33rd Anniversary of the band. Tickets will be £5.00 per adult, pensioners and under 16’s are free. Tickets will be limited so please let us know if you are able to come for a night of nostalgia. Those interested please contact Wendy on 01349 863382 regarding tickets.
If anyone would like to take photographs along on the night or scan and send to the band email [email protected] it would be most welcome.
Strathpeffer & District Pipe Band was formed in 1980 to provide entertainment for residents and visitors in the village of Strathpeffer. They have been doing this each summer Saturday evening ever since, as well as playing at Highland Games and Gatherings across the north of Scotland. The “Strath Band” takes pride in nurturing young pipers and drummers, as well as retaining a strong core of long-serving members. Currently, the band has a strong family flavour with a number of sets of siblings, as well as father-son and father-daughter combinations.
Individually, a number of the band’s pipers compete very successfully on the north’s summer Highland Games circuit, and collectively the band compete well in occasional competitions. Rehearsals take place each Tuesday evening, summer and winter under the tutelage of Pipe Major James MacKenzie and the leading tip and drum tutor, John Mellis. It is this commitment to fostering talent of all ages that will help sustain the band in the future.
From their formation the band has turned out in the MacKenzie of Seaforth tartan. The Caberfeidh (stag’s head) cap badge is another symbol of the area, both this and the tartan of the band’s kilts forming part of the uniform of the Seaforth Highlanders, the local regiment. The band is rightly proud of its heritage and links to Strathpeffer and surrounding area.
Enjoy the band live on summer Saturday evenings in Strathpeffer Square – an appointment the band have not missed in almost 31 years
Saturday night performances have ended for 2012, however the Pipe Band will return to the Square, every Saturday night from May 2013 to September. See you there!
Click on the video link below to watch a live performance of the Pipe Band in Strathpeffer Square.
See also this page: http://strathpeffervillage.org.uk/musicarts:3
More info:
Contact: Alan McHardy
Telephone/Mobile:
Email: ku.oc.evil|dnabhtarts#ku.oc.evil|dnabhtarts
Related website:
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