The following are the pictures from Lena McKay’s Camera.
You can download a zip file of all the pictures from a link on Sendspace here
Or Download them individually below.
(Hover over a link to preview it, click a link to see the full picture)
Posted by: mitchellmckenna | August 28, 2007
Lena McKay’s Pictures
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Posted by: mitchellmckenna | August 20, 2007
Jean Walker’s Pictures
The following are the pictures from Jean Walker’s Camera. They are higher quality than the previous pictures, and would be a better print than the previous.
You can download a zip file of all the pictures from a link on Sendspace here.
Or Download them individually below.
(Hover over a link to preview it, click a link to see the full picture)
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Posted by: mitchellmckenna | August 16, 2007
Video of the Band’s Performance
The Following video is The College of Piping’s performance during the World’s Pipe Band Championships held in Glasgow, Scotland on August 11, 2007.
Although you can’t tell from the video, it was pouring rain.
This performance was judged so that the College of Piping could lay claim to be the 4th Best in the World in their category, Grade 3.
Pretty remarkable, when you consider that 17 of the 24 band members are under the age of 19! (The youngest is 12!)
These kids competed against other bands that had players that have been playing competively, longer than these kids have been alive!
I was there to witness this, and I can tell you, it was one of the proudest moments in my life.
Enjoy.
Scott Grady
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Posted by: collegeofpiping | August 11, 2007
4th BEST Grade 3 Pipes & Drums in the whole wide world !!!!!!!!!!!!
We are so proud of our band !!!! You guys are amazing and you all worked so hard for this . Everyone is bursting with pride around Summerside !! Safe journey home everyone and relax and have fun in Iceland…..you deserve it !
Gerry Sheila & Steve
Update: August 12th, 2007
A complete list of the results from all competetions can be found at the following link…
http://www.pipesdrums.com/Contents.aspx?M=Articles&AT=Results&AID=14213
Vano
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Posted by: collegeofpiping | August 11, 2007
CONGRATULATIONS SENIOR BAND
Sending Congratulations to Scotland to our Senior Pipe Band. 4th place out of 25 Bands is outstanding. CONGRATS! CONGRATS! We are so proud of you…I am sure it was a grand experience. You can relax now for a few days. Can’t wait to see you on Monday night. Hopefully you will find a Hot Springs in Iceland to relax in. But do come home! YOUR THE BEST!
Shelley, Shanae and Sherra
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Posted by: mitchellmckenna | August 11, 2007
Day 12 (The Big Day)
Hi everyone -
Well it’s here, it’s World Championship day! We are pulling out of here via bus in about forty five minutes. It’s raining right now, just a soft pretty Scottish misty rain, not too cold. Hopefully it will clear and be sunny later as it did yesterday. The band was in lockdown yesterday so I didn’t see them much, although I did find them all practising indoors with chanters and drum pads at one point (when it was still raining). Christopher was in a panic over losing a sock and a flash, I guess the kids had mixed up some of their uniform pieces. I think someone loaned him their extra pieces so hopefully all will be well for today and eventually his own pieces will turn up. That’s the spirit of this little band, everyone helps each other out. I am guessing for the rest of the day that the kids played guitars and sat around, resting and singing their hearts out, and I expect there was another practice last nite. ( we are in separate residences so don’t always see the kids). Jessica did some laundry, maybe others did as well.
The day before, a group got together and went to Stirling Castle. Alas we did not get to see any sword fights but the castle itself was neat. Calvin and Jonothan threated to jump off the stone wall into the moat but since there was no water below I guess they had second thoughts. They enjoyed looking in all the nooks and crannies. I think those two boys have enjoyed the castles more than anyone! Great age to be.
Afterwards we grabbed a bite at one of the favorite eating holes, an old pub called O’Neil’s where some neat old sayings are written on the walls for clients to ponder as they await their meals. One is ‘good things come to those who…wait.’ Another is ‘toilets this way’ and then on the next wall ‘toilets still this way.’ It’s fun! Everyone has enjoyed listening to Scottish accents and I think for me that that is what I will miss the most. They are fun people, these Scots, and they have been very good to all of us.
Well, gotta go get ready to catch that bus into Worlds! My stomach is already fluttering. We will have lots of fans, we met folks briefly last nite who plan to be there – they are pipers and so will give us their honest opinion and we know they will have great things to say about our little PEI band! (if we can just decipher their Scottish brogue, I think they get tired of repeating themselves for us!)
Cheers – send positive energy our way around 1 pm PEI time!
Susan
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Posted by: mitchellmckenna | August 9, 2007
Interview on CBC Radio The Q
If anyone missed the Kara and Chris’s interview you can listen to it here…
[odeo=http://odeo.com/audio/15919883/view]
or download it from an service called sendspace by following the link…|
http://www.sendspace.com/file/9kjaz
Mitchell McKenna
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