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August 21, 2002
Piping performance nets silver…SFU’s world champion pipe band played to a second place finish during this year’s world championships in Scotland on Aug. 10. Despite dropping from last year’s top spot, members are happy with their performance. As pipe sergeant Jack Lee puts it: "We played as well as we ever have. We have won the world championships with performances like that in other years. So we are not disappointed." While SFU’s Grade 1 band played well, Lee says Northern Ireland’s Field Marshall Montgomery band "played a bit better." SFU beat long time Scottish rival Shotts & Dykehead Caledonia, which settled for third, while another Canadian band, 78th Fraser Highlanders, finished fourth. Twenty-six bands competed in the Grade 1 category, while a total of 225 bands participated in various levels of competition.
The SFU Grade 2 band also competed this year and finished second among 38 bands in its category. Lee calls it a "tremendous finish." It was the band’s first world competition. Many of those in the band are graduates from the juvenile teaching program, which was started in 1994 in memory of two band members who were killed in a car accident. Last year, younger members who play with the Robert Malcolm Memorial band competed for the first time and took first place. The juvenile band did not compete this year.
SFU now has six pipe bands involving members at various levels of skill.
Band members are gearing up for two major performances, including a benefit concert Sept. 28 in Vernon, in support of the family of drummer Arran Campbell. The 18-year-old youth was killed in a car accident last Easter. The talented drummer had performed with the band for five years, including three world championship performances. SFU pipers and drummers will also be the featured performers at the Stone Mountain Highland Games in Atlanta, Georgia on Oct. 19/2002.
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Marianne Meadahl/Julie Ovenell-Carter, Media & PR 604.291.4323
The SFU Grade 2 band also competed this year and finished second among 38 bands in its category. Lee calls it a "tremendous finish." It was the band’s first world competition. Many of those in the band are graduates from the juvenile teaching program, which was started in 1994 in memory of two band members who were killed in a car accident. Last year, younger members who play with the Robert Malcolm Memorial band competed for the first time and took first place. The juvenile band did not compete this year.
SFU now has six pipe bands involving members at various levels of skill.
Band members are gearing up for two major performances, including a benefit concert Sept. 28 in Vernon, in support of the family of drummer Arran Campbell. The 18-year-old youth was killed in a car accident last Easter. The talented drummer had performed with the band for five years, including three world championship performances. SFU pipers and drummers will also be the featured performers at the Stone Mountain Highland Games in Atlanta, Georgia on Oct. 19/2002.
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CONTACT
Marianne Meadahl/Julie Ovenell-Carter, Media & PR 604.291.4323