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SFU Pipe Band, world Championships, Scotland, 2010
Jason Paquio from Simon Fraser University was crowned Adult Champion in the Drum Majors event.
August 15, 2010
Aug. 15, 2010
A third place finish at the World Pipe Band Championships has dashed hopes that the Simon Fraser University Pipe Band could win the title three times in a row.
But Pipe Sergeant Jack Lee says the band performed its best and is pleased to remain one of the world’s tops bands.
The band did have reason to celebrate as SFU Drum Major Jason Paguio took the top prize in the World Drum Major championship.
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Aug. 14, 2010
The Simon Fraser University Pipe Band has performed at the World Pipe Band championships on Glasgow Green and is awaiting the judges’ results (expected approximately 10 a.m. Vancouver time).
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Aug. 13, 2010She could easily lay claim to being the Simon Fraser University Pipe Band’s biggest fan. With her two sons leading the band and five grandchildren playing in it, Annabelle Lee has a little more at stake at Saturday’s World Pipe Band Championships than most moms attending the competition.
Lee, the mother of Pipe Sergeant Jack Lee and Pipe Major Terry Lee, will be at Glasgow Green – her first trip back since 1985 - to watch her family compete for their third straight championship title.
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Aug. 13, 2010
SFU took to the streets of Glasgow on Friday to see what people had to say about the SFU Pipe Band and it chances at tomorrows Worlds.
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Aug. 13, 2010The Simon Fraser University Pipe Band will be going into tomorrow’s World Pipe Band Championships at Glasgow Green with a simple plan – play with confidence.
“If we do what we do well, then we’ve accomplished our goal,” Pipe Major Terry Lee told band members on the eve of the competition. “We’re the best we’ve ever been right now.
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Aug. 13, 2010The 47 members of the Simon Fraser University Pipe Band – currently the world’s best pipe band - are superb pipers and drummers who also mesh well, something Pipe Major Terry Lee calls the chemistry factor.
Every member has a story. Here are just a few.
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Aug. 13, 2010Drummers go for ‘visual wow’ factor
Their brand new, vibrant blue Andante drums give the Simon Fraser University Pipe Band drum corps a bold look, just as the new kilts do – something lead drummer Reid Maxwell describes as that “visual wow factor.” One of the world’s most decorated pipe band drummers, Maxwell says his drummers are ready for the Worlds.
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Aug. 13, 2010Tuning becomes fine-tuning
The SFU band spent much of practice Thursday tuning bagpipes and getting the best out of their sound – a ritual that can’t be overdone, says Pipe Major Terry Lee.
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Aug. 12, 2010The SFU Pipe Band wowed the crowds at an afternoon concert in Glasgow’s George Square on Aug. 11, from die-hard piping fans to passersby as well as the Scottish media, who called their performance “slick” and their precision and detail “impeccable.”
“It felt like the crowd was very much with us,” says Pipe Sergeant Jack Lee, confident his band is ready for the Worlds.
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Aug. 11, 2010It’s a marriage made in Scotland. Simon Fraser University Pipe Band pipers Damien and Angela Burleigh are back in Scotland to compete at the Worlds, but their return brings back personal memories – a first date, first kiss, and proposal, at the foot of a castle.
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Aug. 11, 2010While the Scots try to end their world championship slump, it’s the Irish who may pose the biggest challenge to the defending world champion Simon Fraser University Pipe Band on Saturday, Aug. 14.
“We’re going into this knowing we’re one of the top contenders, but the pressure will be on,” says Pipe Sergeant Jack Lee.
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Aug 10, 2010 The SFU Pipe Band has a ‘snazzy’ new look as it prepares to compete at this year’s World Bagpipe Championships – new kilts in a distinctive tartan, a brighter variation based on the traditional Clan Fraser tartan. “We really stand out,” says Pipe Major Terry Lee.
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Aug.10, 2010Pipers and drummers had their first chance to play on Scottish soil under sunny skies – much to the delight of foreign band visitors and locals, anxious to see the world’s best pipe band in action.
“From here on, we’ll be at it every day, perfecting what we already know should be perfect,” says Pipe Major Terry Lee.
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Aug 9, 2010 Port Coquitlam retiree and piper Bill Dow, 75, will be in the crowd at Glasgow Green in Scotland on Aug. 14 – he’ll be cheering for the Simon Fraser University Pipe Band, vying for its third straight win at the World Bagpipe Championships.
Dow, pipe major of the Mission City Band, has followed the SFU band to Glasgow seven times and this year “likes their chances.”
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Aug 9, 2010
A sold-out concert in Belfast with longtime rivals Field Marshal Montgomery Pipe Band was the first order of business for the SFU Pipe Band – they dazzled the crowd and showed off new kilts – before heading to Stirling, Scotland, where practices for Saturday’s (Aug. 14) World Bagpipe Championships will begin in earnest.
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July 29, 2010The Simon Fraser University Pipe Band will be aiming for a hat trick when it competes at the World Bag Pipe Championships on Aug. 14 in Glasgow Scotland.
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jacob
thats cool that you got to go to scotland