Pipe Band
2013 Music and Pipe Band Scholarship auditions
The RNZPBA South Pacific Championships 2012
This year our band competed at the South Pacific Pipe Band Championships.
Pipe Band performance update
The Scots College Pipe Band is currently away in Tauranga competing at the National Championships.
Great results from the Pipe Band Championships
Scots College hosted this year’s 2012 Provincial contest which saw eleven pipe bands from this region take part.
The results for Scots College, who competed in Grade 4 were:
75th Jubilee Pipe Band Championship
On Saturday, 18 February eleven Pipe Bands will descend on Scots College to contest the 75th Wellington Hawkes Bay Centre Pipe Band Championships. This annual event is a celebration not only of pipe music, but this region’s strong Scottish heritage.
The public is encouraged to come along and enjoy some fantastic live performances. The event will start with a Street March departing from Crawford Green in Strathmore at 9.30am, and all subsequent performances will take place on the front field at Scots College. Entry is free.
75th Jubilee Pipe Band Championship proudly hosted by Scots College
Pipe Band, RNZPB Contest (Tauranga)
Pipe Band in winning form at Highland Games
Scots College Pipe Band was celebrating in style recently as they have secured another trophy to add to their collection.
The band took part in the Turakina Highland Games held last 28 January 2012. This is an important event in the Piping calendar, and again the boys were competing not with other schools, but with mixed ages and experienced players.
Pipe Band in winning form at Highland Games
Pipe Band in swearing in ceremony of Governor-General
On Wednesday, 31 August 2011, Lieutenant General Sir Jerry Mateparae will be sworn in as Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief of the Realm of New Zealand.
The ceremony will take place (weather permitting) on the steps of Parliament House from 11.30 a.m. Members of the public are invited to view this special State occasion from the lawn in front of Parliament House.