Rhode Island Highlanders Pipe Band

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article needs additional citations for verification.
Please help improve this article by adding reliable references. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (February 2008)

The Rhode Island Highlanders Pipe Band is a bagpipe band in Rhode Island. Founded in 1948, and is the oldest pipe band in the state.^{[citation needed]} The band currently plays for parades, Burns' Nights, Graduations etc., and also competes in Highland Games at the Grade 4 level. The pipe band was the Grade 5 Champions of the Eastern United States in 2007.

1 History
2 List of Jobs
3 Competition
4 Members
5 Uniforms
6 References
7 External links

[edit] History

The Rhode Island Highlanders were formed in 1948 by a group of veterans of World War II in order to preserve the traditional music of Scotland and Ireland.

There have been 4 past pipe majors of the band. The first, John Everett MacLean, led the band to many victories in competitions in the US and Canada. Alexander R. Glen, the second P/M, became a recreational band focused more on teaching then competing. The third, John Sullivan, transformed the band from a recreational unit into a nationally recognized competitive Pipe Band of some distinction with many trophies and awards to its credit.

The fourth and current Pipe Major is Debbie Kane. She has worked valiantly and taken a broken band in threat of disbanding and turned it around for an amazing second season where the band took home the 1st Place prize for its division in the Eastern United States Pipe Band Association.

[edit] List of Jobs

Carnegie Abbey Golf Club Burns' Night
St. Patricks Day Parades:
Newport Parade
West Warwick Parade
Providence Parade
Mystic Parade
Brown University Graduation
Gaspee Days Parade, Warwick
Independence Day Parade of Milbury, Mass.
Scotland, CT, Highland Games

[edit] Competition

The band is currently competing in Grade 4, in the EUSPBA. It was upgraded from last year where it won the Overall Points Winner Award for Grade 5. In the 2007 season, the band gained a first place at every competition attended except for a second place at Glasgowlands, Ct. The band also won the Northeastern Regional Championship for Grade 5 for 2007 at Altamont, NY. In 2006, the band competed in Grade 3, but did not do so well, and downgraded for the next year.