Events and Performances for City of Sails Pipe Band
Massey Graduation Parades have come around again this year, the dates were Tuesday May 25th to Thursday May 27th. There was also an extra stage performance on Tuesday and Thursday evenings at 6pm. The parades are a bit later in the year than usual, which made the mornings a bit colder and harder to get […]
Last night was an exclusive whisky tasting evening at the Bluestone Bar in Auckland. There were 30 people (invite only) that participated in tasting, costing about $2000 each. The tasting started from the Glenfiddich 15 year old, and had 5 whiskies ending on the 50 Year Old. The 50 yo came in a leather bound […]
The week before Easter the band did the Massey Graduation Parades in Takapuna. This consists of 2 parades a day, one in the morning and one in the evening, then a set on stage while the graduates are seated. I did 2 of the 3 days (Wednesday 17th and Thursday 18th). As Kerry was […]
[UPDATED]The Pipeband Nationals was pretty good for our band however the comments on the judges sheets did not really show the improvements we had made from last year. In saying this some of the comments were valid and will be something that the grade 4 band will need to work on over the next year […]
Here are the band photos from the Nationals
With the nationals in the past and all the recent competition and practice over it is time to reflect on the last month or so. Our placing at the Nationals was 8th overall out of 12 in the grade. There are some good points with this and some not so good points. Although we would […]
The Oranga School Cultural Performance happened a few weeks ago, this is the only image I can get, it is low quality and I have tried to increase the pixel rate and image quality, but this is the best I can get it.
This week was a busy one for piping. I decided to do all the AUT Graduation Parades, 4 overall from Tuesday to Friday. I took half days off each day for this but it was still tiring over the days. I walked to the train station each morning in my kilt and took the train […]
This weekend had 3 Santa Parades, First was Helensville on Saturday. We first did a 15 minute performance in the town centre at 10:45, then headed to the Ginger Crunch Cafe where the parade started at 12:00. The march was long and quite fast, Kerry set a long stride which made it uncomfortable for some. […]
Two Santa parades The short Henderson Santa Parade on Saturday then the big Farmers Santa Parade through Queen Street on Sunday. Both were with City Of Sails Pipeband. I could only find photos from the Farmers Parade
