78th Fraser Highlanders Pipe Band

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78th Fraser Highlanders Pipe Band
Location Toronto, Ontario
Grade 1
Pipe Major Bill Livingstone
D. Sergeant Drew Duthart
Tartan Fraser
Notable Honours Winner, World Pipe Band Championships: 1987
Website www.78thfrasers.net

The 78th Fraser Highlanders Pipe Band, also known as The Scottish Lion - 78th Fraser Highlanders Pipe Band, is a pipe band from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Sponsored by the regiment of the same name, the Frasers became the first non-Scottish band to win the World Pipe Band Championships, in the summer of 1987.

Under the direction of Pipe Major Bill Livingstone, the band is still active in the competitive pipe band arena to this day. The band has both won the North American Pipe Band Championships (held in Maxville, Ontario) and the Canadian Pipe Band Championships (held in Cambridge, Ontario) a total of twelve times each. The Frasers travel to Scotland each summer to compete at the World's, and have finished in the prize list eleven times.

In addition to their competitive activities, the band has always had a mandate and goal to expand the pipe band idiom and to introduce new musical concepts into the genre, through their recordings and concerts. Their recording Live In Ireland (1987) is regarded by many as the modern pipe band recording. (The interested musicologist will compare that recording with Dysart & Dundonald Pipe Band's Live In Concert, Ballymena, made just a few years earlier, in 1983.)

Their recordings include:

  • Live In Ireland (1987)
  • The Immigrant's Suite (1989)
  • Live in Canada - The Megantic Outlaw Concert (1991)
  • Live in Scotland (1993)
  • Flame of Wrath (1998)
  • Cascade (2003)

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Grade I Pipe Bands ( v • d • e )
Scotland Boghall and Bathgate Caledonia Pipe Band, Clan Gregor Society Pipe Band, Dysart and Dundonald Pipe Band, Shotts and Dykehead Pipe Band, Strathclyde Police Pipe Band, Vale of Atholl Pipe Band, Scottish Power Pipe Band
Ireland Field Marshal Montgomery Pipe Band, St. Laurence O'Toole Pipe Band
Canada 78th Fraser Highlanders Pipe Band, 78th Highlanders (Halifax Citadel) Pipe Band, Alberta Caledonia Pipe Band, Simon Fraser University Pipe Band, Toronto Police Pipe Band, Windsor Police Pipe Band
Australia Australia Highlanders Pipe Band, City of Adelaide Pipe Band, Perth Highland Pipe Band, Victoria Police Pipe Band, Western Australia Police Pipe Band
United States City of Washington Pipe Band, Los Angeles Scottish Pipe Band, Prince Charles Pipe Band
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