I had a gig with some of the City of Auckland players on Saturday night. It consisted of playing outside while guests arrived, then playing a few tunes inside, and then playing tag team jigs for a Strip the Willow dance
Category: bagpiping
ANZAC Day 25th April 2018
This years ANZAC day was quite busy, waking at 3am to get ready, out the door at 4am, practice meet by 4:30, then the first performance at the dawn service at 5:15am at the Auckland Museum with City Of Auckland Pipeband. This was broadcast on Maori TV live. The band played for about half an […]
New Zealand Pipe band Nationals Rotorua Band Photos
Here are the band photos from the Nationals
Pipeband Results for City Of Sails Grade 4
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 […]
Waipu Games Performance
This is the Open Bass competition at the Waipu Highland Games 2018, requires the base player to do a March, Strathspey, and Reel, with an accompanying Piper and Side drummer. Third place performance
The Camerons Day Out at the Waipu Highland Games
Great day at Waipu, we visited the Cameron tent when we got to the grounds, and Dad decided to do the morning march through the town centre (@ 9:30) while Mum and I warmed up for the first drumming events. Mums first event was at 9:30 which was the 2/4 march, there were only 2 […]
Oranga School Culture Festival Performance (4th November)
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.
AUT Graduation Parades Auckland
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 […]
Christmas Santa Parades 2nd and 3rd
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. […]
Christmas Santa parades 25th and 26th
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