BAND NEWS
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Where the band name appears twice for a competition one result is for the adult band and the other for the novice juveniles.
The 3rd of December was a like a re-
Piper Ian Sinclair was helping his uncle tidy up an old workshop when he came upon an article in a newspaper from 1960 about the band. In it was a picture from about 1906 under its predecessor name of Perth and District Good Templars’ Pipe Band! His great grandfather is one of the members present!
We returned to Dobbies in Perth on the 18th of December for a fundraising event, playing for a time before and after lunch.
Playing at various points around the garden centre.
Following the pied piper !
Note the discounted prices for some of our pipers !
Christmas is a time for giving ........ and a time for receiving. As far as the band is concerned it has been an auspicious few weeks on the latter front. We have been hugely fortunate in the number of groups who have given donations to the band.
Thank you to the Common Good Fund, The Rotary Club of Perth, Perth Kinnoull Rotary Club, The Thomson Trust, the Jimmy Cairncross Trust and the Guildry Incorporation of Perth for your donations to the band. Your support will make a real difference to what the band can achieve in helping learners, improving the standards of playing of all members and how we are turned out at both local events and competitions throughout the country.
Monday the 19th December saw the commencement of the issue of new bag covers to pipers.
They are fitted with an anti-
St John’s Academy and Primary School were officially opened on the 20th of December by Cardinal O’Brien and MSP John Swinney. The Pipe Major played as part of the celebrations.
The final event of the band year was the bag packing at Marks and Spencer Perth on the 31st December. The first members were at the tills at 8.30 and the packing continued until 4pm. Meanwhile an ongoing shuttle of solo pipers, duets and pipers with a drummer played outside the shop in the High Street. Thanks M&S. Thanks too to the people of Perth who gave generously to our bucket collection.
The year 2012 had barely begun when Peter Scott and Aaron Bryce undertook the band’s
first engagements playing in the New Year at the Ex-
Aaron was back in action on Friday the 13th of January, this time entertaining the members of Perth Gaelic Society at their monthly gathering.
On the 23rd January younger members of the band came home with a series of prizes
from the Vale of Atholl Junior Piping and Drumming Solos -
Drumming:
Nicola Sinclair -
L aura Oswald -
Piping:
Jamie Sinclair -
Aaron Bryce -
Aaron Bryce -
Dress and Deportment :
Aaron Bryce won the prize for the best dress and deportment of all the many competitors that day!
Pipe Major Alistair Duthie gave a talk to the Probus Club in Scone on the morning of Tuesday the 24th January. It was well received and members asked numerous questions.
The band is always involved in events connected with Burns’ Suppers at this time
of the year. Jamie Sinclair entertained the residents of the old folk’s home at Corrie
Place in Scone on Friday the 27th January and a junior mini-