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Written by Dean Hall

Monday, 15 August 2011 21:12

Field Marshal have done it again!

So the Irish have played 2 blinding performances to make sure that the worlds trophy would be crossing the Irish sea again for the second successive year. Some rain drizzled its way into the preceedings but it did not hinder the spirit of the Field Marshal who secured their 7th World Championship title. The placings for the grade 1 final were:

1st Field Marshal Montgomery (NI)

2nd Simon Fraser University (Can)

3rd Scottish Power (Scot)

4th Inverary and District (Scot)

5th St Laurence O'Toole (Eire)

6th Boghall and Bathgate Caledonia (Scot)

7th Strathclyde Police (Scot)

8th Fife Constabulary (Scot)

9th Dowco Triumph Street (Can)

10th The House of Edgar Shotts and Dykehead (Scot)

11th Manawatu Scottish Society (NZ)

12th Los Angeles Scots (USA)

13th Cullybackey (NI)

14th Oran Mor (USA)

Full results of all grades can be found on the RSPBA website here: www.rspba.org

You can watch all the grade one performances courtesy of the BBC here: www.bbc.co.uk/music/worlds/2011/bands/

If you were not on "The Green" this year, be sure to book your holidays with the boss for next year's event as it is well worth the trip. Visit www.rspba.org for all dates.

Written by Dean Hall

Wednesday, 12 January 2011 00:00

Oz Summer School 2011

This January saw the first annual Summer School for Piping and Drumming run by the Australian Pipe Band Association. A fun and informative time was had by all 89 Pipers and Drummers who attended. The instruction was headed up by world champions Jack Lee and J Reid Maxwell of Simon Fraser University Pipe Band from Vancouver, Canada and world champion Tyler Fry from the House of Edgar Shots and Dykehead, Scotland. Congratulations must be made to the APBA on such a well run event. If you are looking for a great way to kick off your year down under, come to Melbourne next January from the 3rd till the 7th and enjoy a great series of lessons under these fine instructors and their assistants. For further information, visit the APBA website

The APBA Summer School is proudly sponsored by DrummingMad.

Written by Dean Hall

Tuesday, 21 December 2010 09:33

Merry Christmas

From all of us at DrummingMad, we wish you, your family and band friends all the very best of health and happiness over the festive season. Strive for your next Drumming goal in 2011 and good luck!

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Written by Dean Hall

Sunday, 24 October 2010 10:00

4 in a row for Barry at the World Solo Drumming Championship

Barry Wilson of ScottishPower Pipe Band continued his winning run of recent years to take the 2010 World Solo Drumming championship on the 23^rd of October. This was Wilson’s fourth consecutive title, in which he was up against 10 others in the adult section final. Inveraray and District’s Steven McWhirter placed second and Gordon Brown of Boghall and Bathgate Caledonia Pipe Band was third. Held again at Glasgow Caledonian University in Glasgow, the event was well attended and as expected from an RSPBA-run event, ran smoothly and was an exciting day for competing drummers and spectators alike.

In the under 18 categories, Ryan Martin from Culleybackey won Juvenile Section One,

HOE Shotts and Dykehead’s Grant Cassidy took the honours in Juvenile Section Two

and Scott MacKenzie of ScottishPower won Juvenile Section Three.

Barry Wilson 2008 Solo Winner webres

1st Barry Wilson - Leading Drummer for Scottish Power

2nd Steven McWhirter - Leading Drummer for Inveraray and District

3rd Gordon J Brown - Leading Drummer for Boghall and Bathgate Caledonia

4th Jim Kilpatrick - Leading Drummer for HOE Shotts and Dykehead Caledonia

5th Gordon Lee - Simon Fraser University

6th Blair Brown - Simon Fraser University

7th Eric Ward - Leading Drummer for Strathclyde Police

8th Chris McNicholl - Strathclyde Police

9th J Reid Maxwell - Leading Drummer for Simon Fraser University

10th Stephen Creighton - Leading Drummer for St Laurence O'Toole

11th Derek Cooper - Simon Fraser University

12th Aaron McCarton - Field Marshal Montgomery

Videos of the performances are available at GusWeb.org for a small donation to GusWeb (or large one if you really like) This is a great service.

Click here for full details available at the RSPBA website

Written by Dean Hall

Sunday, 15 August 2010 10:00

SLOT Take the big prize back to Dublin

It was most definately the day for the Irish with the St.Laurence O'Toole Pipe Band from Dublin (aka SLOT) coming first in the top grade, grade 1. They had to play a traditional set of tunes known as the March Strathspey and Reel "the MSR" which has been the benchmark of differentiating between bands for over 70 years. There were four judges who judge this element of the competition and they are the Drumming Judge, the Ensemble Judge and two Piping Judges and all 4 judges gave SLOT first place. The second element was the Medley which is a selection of tunes of any time signature and not limited to March, Strathspey and Reel. Jigs; Hornpipes; "Round Reels" (not pointed/without dots and cuts); Waltzes; Slow Airs and often creative cadences work their way into these Medley compostions. Medleys have been around only since the 70s and offer other variation of the wider family of rhythm. In this element, SLOT gained another two firsts in both Drumming and Ensemble which pushed them through well ahead of second place getters Field Marshal Montgomery. Third were last 2 years winners the Simon Fraser University Pipe Band from Vancouver and fourth were the Boghall and Bathgate Caledonia from Scotland. Here are the full results for grade one:

1st St Laurence O'Toole (Eire) SLOT_World_Champions_2010

2nd Field Marshal Montgomery (NI)

3rd Simon Fraser University (Can)

4th Boghall and Bathgate Caledonia (Scot)

5th The House of Edgar Shotts and Dykehead (Scot)

6th Scottish Power (Scot)

7th Strathclyde Police (Scot)

8th Fife Constabulary (Scot)

9th Inverary and District (Scot)

10th The 78th Fraser Highlanders (Can)

11th Robert Wiseman Dairies Vale of Atholl (Scot)

12th Dowco Triumph Street (Can)

13th Cullybackey (NI)

14th Auckland and District (NZ)

Again it was an amazing day of music with over 240 bands participating in 8 grades from 9am until the grand finale "The Massed Bands" at 6pm. Be sure not to miss your opportunity to see this fantastic event for yourself in 2011. Full results can be found on the RSPBA website here:

http://www.rspba.org/html/majorcontests.php?Year=2010&Contest=World%20Championships

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