BCPA would like to congratulate the following BCPA members and member bands players for their competitive achievements at 2020 Winter…
Read more →The BC Pipers’ Association is proud to announce that the 2020 Boney Music Memorial Invitational Competition and Recital to raise…
Read more →Under very warm and sunny weather, the 2019 Pacific Northwest Highland Games was held on July 27 & 28 at…
Read more →On March 27, 2019, Jeanette Bonar, BCPA Chief Steward Lynn Bullis, and BCPA President Rob MacNeil presented Dr. Brian Thiessen…
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BCPA would like to congratulate the following BCPA members and member bands players for their competitive achievements at 2020 Winter Storm on January 16-17 in Kansas City, MO. Alastair Lee – 1st United States Gold Medal Ceol Beag – 1st United States Gold Medal Piobaireachd – Winner of the President’s Trophy for double Gold Medals…
The BC Pipers’ Association will be holding our Annual Ceilidh & recognizing our 2019 Volunteers on Friday January 24, 2020. This year this annual event is being held at The Heritage Grill, in New Westminster. Following dinner, stay and enjoy some live music! It should be a fun evening, and we hope to see you…
The Celtic Arts Foundation announces release of its Westering Home CD/DVD project. For more information on the project or to order the CD/DVD, please visit the link below: https://celticarts.org/westering-home/ The link below has a short 5-minute trailer on the Celtic Arts Foundations’s Masters of Scottish Arts DVD and audio CD project: https://vimeo.com/375519076
The BC Pipers’ Association is proud to announce that the 2020 Boney Music Memorial Invitational Competition and Recital to raise funds for brain cancer research for the BC Cancer Foundation, is planned for Saturday February 15, 2020. Please check out our Boney Music Memorial Invitational page for details. The invited players for this year’s event…
The Annual General Meeting of the British Columbia Pipers’ Association will be on Saturday, November 23, 2019 from 9:00 am to 11:30 am Pacific Standard Time as an ONLINE MEETING ONLY. This form of meeting was approved by the Board of Directors to exercise new capabilities in the BC Societies Act to enable greater…
The results of the 2019 November BCPA Mini-Gathering are now posted on the Results page. https://www.bcpipers.org/services/results/ Photos from the 2019 November BCPA Mini-Gathering and the 2019 BCPA Grand Aggregate Awards are posted on the BCPA Photo Gallery. https://www.bcpipers.org/photo-albums/ Our thanks to St. Andrew and Caledonian Society (SACS) President Bill Murray and Past President Cilla Bachop…
Calling all Pipers to help celebrate in the 75th anniversary of VE day. VE Day 75 is being organized to celebrate the 75th Anniversary of the end of the War in Europe on 8th May 1945, along with paying an important, unique ‘tribute’ to those amazing, brave Pipers that either lost their lives or returned…
The Annual General Meeting of the British Columbia Pipers’ Association will be on Saturday, November 23, 2019 from 9:00 am to 11:30 am Pacific Standard Time as an ONLINE MEETING ONLY. This form of meeting was approved by the Board of Directors to exercise new capabilities in the BC Societies Act to enable greater participation…
The Fall deadline to apply for the BCPA Bursaries is Sunday, November 3, 2019. There are two bursaires available: Neil O. Stubberfiled Piobaireachd Bursary, BCPA Tuition Bursary, and the new Information about the tuition and piobaireachd bursaries and the 2019 application forms can be found on the website at: https://www.bcpipers.org/services/grants-bursaries/
Schedule The schedule for the November 2, 2019 Mini-Gathering is now posted here. More Tuning Rooms This season more tuning rooms are available as well as a final tuning room for each platform. Players are required to respect the following rules around these rooms: Competitors shall not use the general tuning rooms more than…
A link to the Orders of Play for the 2019 November Mini-Gathering is now posted here: https://www.bcpipers.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/2019-NOV-BCPA-MiniGathering-OOP.pdf The complete schedule of events will be posted on Wednesday, October 30, 2019. Other details are located in the Information Guide located here: https://bcpipers.wildapricot.org/resources/Documents/2019-20/2019-20%20BCPA%20Mini-Gatherings%20Information%20Guide.pdf
A Celebration of Life in memory of NORMA NICHOLSON THOMPSON will be held at the Burnaby Mountain Golf Course 7600 Halifax St, Burnaby, BC Friday, Oct 18, 2019 at 2PM Kindly Respond by Oct 15th to relouise3@gmail.com Norma Nicholson Thompson, youngest daughter of Order of Canada Member the late Pipe Major Malcolm Nicholson, C.M, and the first female…
