World class drummer Graham Brown has joined the teaching team at next week’s Florida Pipe & Drum Academy. Graham is currently the side drum tutor for the St Thomas Episcopal band in Houston, Texas, and is the brother of the well-known piper Glenn Brown. Graham is leading tip of the St Thomnas Alumni band and was a star member of the Worlds-winning Grade 1 drum corps at Shotts & Dykehead….
The Principal of the Northern Winter School, Ronnie Bromhead, ex-Scots Guards, tells me that registrations for this year’s school will open in the first week of March. Venue is as before at Lohheide in Lower Saxony and an excellent facility I might add. Ronnie has pledged to keep prices as affordable as possible but there will be no reduction in the quality of the world-class teaching on offer. Check the…
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It is pleasing to see that the Scottish Government’s Education Committee has ruled that music tuition in our schools should be provided free of charge to pupils, writes the Editor. Pleasing, but unless the administration puts money where it matters it will just be another blast of well meaning hot air. It is a fact that pupils learning a musical instrument, and that includes pipers and drummers, do better at…
It is hoped that the presentation of the tune for John Cruickshank VC will take place at a lunch in May and that the winner Dave Mason will be able to attend from the US to play it for him. The promoters, the Royal Northern and University Club, Aberdeen, are planning to present Mr Cruickshank and the winner with a memorial plaque to mark the occasion. Mr Cruickshank (98) does…
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