Beverley & District Pipe Band

Piping on the iPlayer

Paul Wright — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:03:41 +0000

The fifth programme in the series is a must for solo pipers as it delves into the world of competitive piping with unique access to the prestigious Glenfiddich competition held annually at Blair Castle, Pitlochry. A gathering for the world’s best exponents of Pìobaireachd (Great Music) and Ceol Beag (Little Music).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/b01b1xdc/

If you’ve missed the fifth programme, the sixth covers the world of Pipebands. Whether it is one of the big international competitive bands or the local town Pipeband, they are colourful and strike up an emotive sound whenever they play. The programme visits 2010 World champions St Lawerence O Toole as they come together from many corners of Eire for a mid-week practice in Dublin.

Inveraray and District Pipeband under the tutelage of Stuart Liddle prove that dedication and enthusiasm are vital for any band wanting to progress through the competitive ranks, while the young players of the Sgoil Lionacleit Pipeband show that the piping tradition is alive and well in the Southern Isles

http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/b01bbcwz/

New Mid Section

Paul Wright — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 19:49:28 +0000

Following a recruitment drive in the Beverley Guardian in the autumn of 2011 Beverley & District attracted five new budding drummers. Three of these new members have now progressed onto playing with the band and are looking like they will be performing with the band this year. This is great testament to the commitment shown from Nigel, Phil and Bea, and the standard of teaching in the band.

Beverley & District Pipe Band have always been dedicated to teaching. Anyone from Hull, East Yorkshire and beyond would be welcomed to visit the band as these three individuals did late last year, and experience themselves how much fun and reward can be gained from the band. Depending on your chosen instrument you too could be playing with the band within months, or at least be enjoying the learning experience with many others within the band.

Learn more about our drummers here.

New Website

Paul Wright — Sun, 08 May 2011 21:11:11 +0000

The band launches it’s new website, which brings with it a much needed face lift, but also greater flexibility to integrate with social networking sites in the hope to reach out and attract the attention of the the younger generations.

The first step is to include the increasingly common ‘like’ and ‘tweet’ buttons on all pages and posts. These provide the ability for our guests to promote the site with a simple click on their choice of the two largest and most popular social networking sites.

Next up is twitter intergration that automatically tweets news items to followers on twitter.

Further integration with facebook is to follow.

New Socks

Paul Wright — Fri, 06 May 2011 19:30:00 +0000

The wait is finally over. As impressive as the old, hand knitted socks were, that the band has worn since the early 90′s, the members decided to go the way... Read more »

New Drums

Paul Wright — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:55 +0000

The band has proudly taken delivery of 6 Snare Drums, 3 individually voiced Tenor Drums and a huge Bass Drum. All in blue woodgrain shells – nice!This would not have... Read more »

A Year of Two Halves

Paul Wright — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 00:00:43 +0000

2010 was a year of two halves; a very positive start with trophies galore; the drum section settled down nicely after last years’ changes; and the fist appointment of a pipe sergeant brought noticeable enhancements to the tone of the pipe corps. But it was followed by the departure of just enough members to remind you that Grade 4 Pipe Bands are never far from that fine line between success and failure.

Both Fred Woodward and Bill Brand, after years of pipe band drumming, have finally decided to hang up their kilts for the last time. Everyone in the band wishes them well in their retirement, it was a pleasure and an honour to have two such well regarded members of the pipe band fraternity play out their final days with the band. Fred Evans has partly followed their lead by semi-retiring, but we’re all hoping Fred will be able to play with us in the summer months. After only a year and despite all the improvements made while working with the PM, Lawrence Storrie disappointingly decided to leave the band, everyone is grateful for what he brought to the band, and also wish him well. Finally on the departure list is Gordon Simmonds, who has made a career move taking him to the Kingdom of Bahrain! Although Gordon has shown huge commitment by putting the miles in to play with the band over the years, travelling from Saudi Arabia is asking a little too much! Guesting with the band in his time off is probably the best we can hope for!

Peter Grant – as we had hoped this time last year – has joined the drum corps, along with, more recently Gavin Buchanan. Peter has very quickly dropped into the corps and attended most of this year’s bookings, and it sounds like Gavin is on the right track to soon follow. Craig Smith also returned to the band, standing in when required on Bass this year while he gets up to speed on snare. We’ve also seen young Alec Miller and Alan Mather join us to learn the pipes and we also saw Donna Main, Janet Phillips and Chris Forest all return to piping but are all unfortunately pre-occupied with work and / or studies at present. Fingers crossed they’ll one day return after their brief visits.