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St Andrews Caledonian Pipe Band
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25.01.2022 Why is the Pipe Major smiling? Because he's at Bunnings North Launceston getting into a sausage! The band is on the sausage hotplate today with bespoke snags from the Perth Butchery*. Come on down, grab a mystery bag in bread and help the band's fundraising as you go! *Until we ran out at 1.30pm!
24.01.2022 Wonderful time spent at The Tailrace today, after months of Zoom practices we thought it would be nice to see people in the flesh. We are a pipe band so after appropriate socially distancing mingling the drums and pipes came out. So many new faces and young people running around having fun in the slightly windy winter sun. Thanks everyone who turned up Also thanks Mishka for the pics .
23.01.2022 After nearly 7 months, we reclaimed our Wednesday night band practice! The year we are all having has been challenging enough, but in the process, the band also found itself homeless! But our Drum Major David stepped up and, with the critical eye of our Pipe Sergeant Selina, prepared a COVID-safe temporary practice venue.... St Andrews Cal is back and ready to play!
20.01.2022 A video fit for our times. Due to COVID-19 restricitons, Piper Stuart Ross, must, along with his crew, quarantine for 14 days in WA after leaving Tassie before joining his ship. Before every swing. On the upside, that means more time to practice! Here, Stuart, filmed by a crew mate, is playing Bells of Dunblane from the balcony of his iso flat. Nice acoustics for it!
18.01.2022 The VP75 event this morning at the Trevallyn Dam will be going ahead and we look forward to seeing you!
17.01.2022 Hot hands on a cold night! Pipe Corporal Kael Haysom giving these tunes - Kelsey's Wee Reel and The Gravel Path - a good going over.
16.01.2022 As Tasmania cautiously made its first round of steps to releasing covid-19 community restrictions, National Parks and State Reserves reopened. With the Mt Arthur State Reserve within his 30km travel limit, our Pipe Major headed our for a wee stroll. Coming to you from the summit of Mt Arthur, 1,188m above sea level. Scottish Summer weather on display!
15.01.2022 Although a performance for her school, we'll happily claim her! While learning pipes, Violet also picked up tenor drumming and competed at the World Pipe Band Championships on that instrument in 2019. Go, Violet!
13.01.2022 In the mail this week, thank you Northlink Ferries for this beautiful book of all you do for not only your community in Scotland but for random groups of people from across the world. Nice to see all the McKenzie tartan with Kirkwall City Pipe Band.
11.01.2022 Our Drum Major Peter Scales did a magnificent job coordinating St Andrews and TasPol to join forces for this event. There were tributes across the state but the north had to contend with some unpleasant winter weather conditions, so a big shout out to everyone there yesterday.
11.01.2022 When the inversion layer stops over the top of our home town, the cold air gets trapped underneath and the temperature plummets! In these two pictures from today, one is from Legges Tor, above the inversion layer, the other is during an online piping lesson below it! When it comes to beanies, who wore it better? Our learner piper or our Pipe Major?
11.01.2022 What a blast from the past! Celtic Force was at the Princess Theatre, having its 12th season and the pipe band were soon to head off to tour Scotland, Ireland and Northern Ireland!
10.01.2022 A great effort by the Juniors and the Band at practice tonight! We're not loving this (who is?!), but it's great to be together, keeping in touch musically and with each other! Stay tuned for more solo video performances from our pipers and we might get some drummers on the go, too!
10.01.2022 From the depths of SACPB Facebook to you Mr Scales, happy retirement.
10.01.2022 Next up is Piper Claire. Enjoy this solo performance of our competiton set! Men of Argyll, Greenwood Side, Drunken Piper and The Earl of Mansfield. The band joined with Sons of Scotland Pipe Band from Canada to perform this set at the 2019 World Pipe Band Championships. We brought it home with us and was part of our pipe corps' championship-winning performance at the 2020 Richmond Highland Gathering.
09.01.2022 At the end of most Augusts for the past 22 years, the band would be celebrating either the end to another season of our show, Celtic Force, or one of our three overseas tours. This fantastic compilation video of our 2010 tour of Scotland, Eire and Northern Ireland was created by 2010 Tour Member and former piper, Andrew Keane, for the Celtic Force's 2011 show. Thank you, Keaney, it was a hit then and a marvelous time capsule - especially now!
08.01.2022 St Andrews Covidonian Pipe Band Drum Corps giving their drum salute the Zoom experience! Meanwhile, the pipers took a moment to sit back enjoy. In space, no one can hear you drum!
07.01.2022 St Andrews Cal is a teaching band and has been since its formation in 1933. Teaching our own members in piping, drumming, drill and dress has enabled us to keep our tutors skilled and has enabled the band to ride out those inevitable troughs in a band's lifecycle. With teaching in mind, the appointment of two new Vice-Principals (and retention of two more) in the Tasmanian Branch of the Australian Pipe Band College is great for our band and for all pipe bands in Tassie. Congratulations to this esteemed quartet!
06.01.2022 Wonderful effort from everyone who played and came to watch the tribute considering the weather. Thank you
03.01.2022 Next up on the live performance list is Piper Claire Blackwell, who has selected the band's competition march set. During our tour of Scotland last year, we teamed up with Sons of Scotland Pipe Band from Canada and competed at the World Pipe Band Championships. The band also brought this set home and Claire was part of the championships-winning pipe corps from the 2020 Richmond Highland Gathering.
03.01.2022 Last year, St Andrews Cal was proud to receive a President's Commendation from Pipe Bands Australia for our 2019 Goodwill Tour of Scotland. And it is fantastic to learn that we follow in the footsteps of other civilian bands from Australia that have done such things in the past. This souvenir program, from 1951 by a Victorian pipe band, simply called an "Australian Highland Pipe Band", shows the type of show they put on: traditional performances, Highland and Irish dances, ba...nd members playing non-pipe band instruments and a novelty act or two - how very Celtic Force! What a trip for them it would have been. And, 69 years on, our P/M has come into possession of a program. Another little fun fact: the Drum Major, William Darwin, was also D/M of a 1926 tour of the UK by an Australian pipe band. Quite remarkably for the time, the players in that band were all women, which inspired the well-known 2/4 March named after the band: 'The Australian Ladies'.
03.01.2022 Another Wednesday evening in iso and the St Andrews Covidonian Pipe Band are at practice! We're running two sessions - one for our Juniors and another for the full band. It's keeping the hands going nicely and, with a Tasmanian Government's timeline for easing restrictions announced, we can look forward to practicing together in the one place sooner rather than later!
02.01.2022 Filling the air with music while the bitey insects find some uncovered skin. St As is a happy band back at practice
02.01.2022 Just a little memory of our trip to Scotland in 2019.
02.01.2022 @sacpb have been using Zoom for their practice on Wednesday nights and by all accounts it has been a success with of course the usual dodgy internet, family pop...ping in to say hi, being caught in your comfortable Covid lounge wear and not giving a care. Every member is putting in and we are so grateful to each of you for your time, commitment and sense of fun in these kinda unfun times. See more
