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PIPE STORIES Foreword by Scott Williams - For more than 230 years dating back to the arrival of the ship ‘Hector’ in Pictou Harbour in 1773, Nova Scotians have experienced a long and happy and continuing association with the music of the Great Highland Bagpipe. For a period of more than eight years, it was my pleasure to be involved in researching the contributions of many of these wonderful Nova Scotian pipers and pipe bands. The ACPBA has agreed to post some of the results of this work on it’s website beginning in October 2004. Some of the articles will be outtakes from my books, "Pipers of Nova Scotia: Biographical Sketches 1773 to 2000" and "Pipe Bands of Nova Scotia: 1898 to 2000" while others will be of more recent vintage; all have been edited for release on this website. I hope you will enjoy reading about the talented men, women, girls and boys who have been a part of this great heritage. For more information about these and other books, or to purchase your own copies, please visit www.bagpipepublishing.com.
The Nova Scotia Highland Village Pipe Band, Iona, Cape
Breton Island, was an active competition unit. It
placed second in the Grade 4 Nova Scotia Championships in 1976. In 1978, two
members of the band were among those selected to be part of an All-Canada
Massed Pipe Band, which took part in the Rose Bowl Parade in Pasadena,
California. That year too, the band won the Fraser Holmes Memorial
Trophy in New Glasgow, and in the fall the band made a recording that included
a variety of Gaelic and English songs, and piano and fiddle selections as well
as numbers by the pipes and drums.
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