Senior School
Senior School
Pipes and Drums do Scotch proud at the Australian championships
Scotch ended a busy pipe band year triumphantly by taking out the grade three( adult) and coming a close second to a strong New Zealand band, in the juvenile grade at the biennial Australian Pipe Band Championships, held at Sydney’ s Knox Grammar School on 1 and 2 October.
Scotch Pipes and Drums were the reigning juvenile and grade three Australian champions leading into the contest. The band travelled up in good spirits on the back of a very successful trip to Scotland earlier this year. After a hard working build-up over Term 3, confidence was high.
The two-day event was live streamed around the world, and Scotch put in two excellent performances on Saturday 1 October, winning the grade three title against strong all-adult competition. On Sunday, Scotch competed in the juvenile grade against eight other Australian schools. Also competing in juvenile were the New Zealand Foundation Youth Pipe Band, which consisted of the best young players from all over New Zealand.
Another two strong performances by our boys enabled Scotch to tie for first place in piping and ensemble, but we finished in second place overall, narrowly behind the New Zealand national team.
These two results clearly place the Scotch Pipes and Drums as the best school pipe band in Australia, an achievement of which the boys and the school can be proud. To take on all comers and come away as Australian champions in the adult section of grade three was a wonderful achievement, and just reward for the hard work the whole band put in.
We congratulate the boys on a most successful year and turn our attention to 2017, knowing the future is bright for the Scotch College Pipes and Drums. KYLE WARREN— PIPING INSTRUCTOR
ABOVE: SCOTCH PIPES AND DRUMS PERFORM AT THE AUSTRALIAN CHAMPIONSHIPS IN SYDNEY.
32 Great Scot Number 149 – December 2016