NORTHERN ARIZONA PIPING NEWS
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President--Nancy McPherson
Vice President--Joe Meehan
Treasurer--Nicki Keesee
Secretary--Martha Shideler
Quartermaster--Nicki Keesee
Pipe Major--Nancy McPherson
Pipe Sargent--Nicki Keesee
Drum Sargent--Geoff Pavey
Instructor--Mike McKee
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BAND MEMBERS
Ann Callan
Michael Donelson
Nicki Keesee
Nancy McPherson
Barbara Meehan
Joe Meehan
Sean Meehan
Timothy Meehan
Geoff Pavey
Martha Shideler
Mike Stuckey
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LESSONS, PRACTICE
The Arizona Highlanders practice every Sunday. Please call
779-3817 for time and place. The band provides free lessons to beginning
pipers. To schedule a lesson, call Nicki at 527-1417.
NEW WEBSITE!
Check out the new Arizona Highlanders site at
http://www.oocities.org/azhighlanders We have Paul B. Howe, local
S.A.M.S (Scottish American Military Society) member for creating and
maintaining this site which is being updated on a regular basis. We also
thank Lori Robison who created the first Arizona Highlander website and has
passed along her information and photos to Paul. If you have any
suggestions for or additions to the site, let us know.
NEED A PIPER?
The Arizona Highlanders are available for concerts, parades,
weddings, funerals, parties, and other events. To schedule the band--or a
single piper--for any event, call Martha at 779-3817.
CLASSIFIED AD
FOR SALE: Dunfion Bagpipes with Ross Canister system and Ash
Plugs. Call Lloyd McCaffery at 928-634-3672.
STILL TIME TO ENTER!
Don't forget to register for Solo Competition at the Arizona
Highland Celtic Festival to be held July 19! Piping and drumming in all
grades! A competition entry form can be downloaded from the NACHS website:
www.nachs.info or by writing to Piping Chair, NACHS, Post Office Box 187,
Flagstaff, AZ 86002, or calling 928-779-3817,
MARCH TUNE NEEDED
To mark the Golden Jubilee of the Scottish Police College at
Tulliallan Castle, Scotland, a pipe tune composition contest is being run,
where the winning entrant will receive the sum of £500 GBP for the best
original march in any time signature. The tune will be named Tulliallan
Castle. We are keen to have entries from across the world and would
encourage anyone who feels they have written a good tune to enter it in the
competition. Further details can be obtained from our web site
www.tulliallan.police.uk.
Inspector Peter Blair
c/o Leanne Naysmith
Scottish Police College
PAST MONTH'S GIGS
The Arizona Highlanders played at Flagstaff's National Tartan Day
celebration on April 6. Performing with the band were pipers Michael
Donelson, Nicki Keesee, Nancy McPherson, and Martha Shideler; and drummers
Barbara, Joe, Sean, and Timothy Meehan, and Geoff Pavey. Nancy piped in
the haggis, and Nicki and Michael played solos. A special treat was
seven-year-old Chance Glenn playing Scots Wha Hae on the practice chanter.
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On April 12 Nicki Keesee and Nancy McPherson piped with drummer
Steve Studebaker of the West Wind Pipe Band at the Memorial Service for
Lori Piestewa, in Tuba City.
US PIPING SCHOOL
The Second Annual US Piping School, sponsored by Thomson & Son
Bagpipes, will take place on the Northern Arizona University Campus July
20-25, 2003. For more information, contact Jim Thomson at 928-522-8797 or
at subby@infomagic.net.
STANDINGS--BETTER LATE THAN NEVER
At the first of each year, we usually post the previous year's
final Solo WUSPBA standings of our members, subscribers, and friends.
Because our computer did not allow us to access the website--we are only
now posting the 2002 solo piping and drumming final standings.
Congratulations to the following:
ADULT DRUM MAJOR
#4--Kevin MacHeffner
JUVENILE DRUM MAJOR
#1--Rebecca A. Mayfield
GRADE I PIPING
#4--Lloyd H. McCaffery
#18--C. Michael McKee
GRADE II PIPING
#5--Ross R. Naismith
#9--Amy J. Drown
#11--Drake V. Dauben
GRADE III PIPING
#1--Elijah J. Woodward
#14--Mark A. Hamilton
#24--Drew K. Naismith
#35--Susan Rennis McPherson
GRADE IV PIPING
#10--Daniel Packer
#14 Michael Donelson
#46--Elizabeth A. Lenox
#47--Monica S. Mayfield
#48--Nicki L. Keesee
#54--Lois E. Kohlmeyer
#68--Donna R. Campbell
#74--David W. Hendry, Jr.
GRADE III SIDE DRUMMING
#8--Bryce E. Parker
#15--Rory I. McPherson
GRADE I TENOR DRUMMING
#4--Rebecca Mayfield
PIOBAIREACHD WORKSHOP
Ten pipers from three states (Arizona, New Mexico, and Nevada)
attended the No Borders Ceol Mor Society piobaireachd workshop held in
Flagstaff on April 5 and 6. Flagstaff pipers attending were Ann Callan,
Michael Donelson. Martha Shideler, and Freddi Steele. Instructor Iain
Macey, originally from Scotland, currently living in Michigan, presented
two piobaireachds--Finger Lock and I Got a Kiss of the King's Hand--in a
way that was relevant for pipers from Grade IV through Grade I. Stay tuned
for information on the next NBCMS workshop with Iain to be held somewhere
in the Southwest in the Fall.
MUSICAL
(Les Miserables, the Pipers' Edition)
Can you hear the bagpipes sing,
singing the songs of angry men?
There's the desperate battle of the birds
and Squintin' Pat again.
When the beating of your heart matches
the humming of the drones,
there will be a brand new day
when tomorrow comes.
Bob Cameron
THE HOST OF THE AIR
He heard, high up in the air,
A piper, piping away,
And never was piping so sad,
And never was piping so gay.
W. B. Yeats
Quoted by Patricia Monaghan
in The Red-Haired Girl from the Bog
THE G.S. McLENNAN
Registration information regarding The McLennan has been posted at
www.bydand.com/mclennan.htm. We are pleased to offer a full two and a half
days of both US and international talent for just $139 per person. Special
packages and group discounts are available. The McLennan weekend (3-5
October) will be a great opportunity both for spectators and for
competitors (Professionals and Grade I--Professional prizes include cash
and qualification/transportation to the US Piping Foundation championship
and potentially an invitation to the Glenfiddich). Hope to see you there!
Ian Kelly
NEWS FROM THE SCOTTISH FRONT
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Gavin Stoddart of the Army School of Piping, and formerly
instructor at the College of Piping Summer School in Carlsbad, will join
the staff of Glasgow's Piping Centre.
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College of Piping and US. Piping School instructor Andrew Frater
was spotted in a photo of members of the Royal Scottish Pipers' Society
gathering in Glencoe to present a handwritten copy of the tune The Massacre
of Glencoe to the new Visitor Centre in a ceremony marking the 311th
anniversary of the Massacre.
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College of Piping instructor Angus John MacLellan will be judging
at the Dan Reid Memorial in San Francisco, California, April 26.
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Work has started on the new College of Piping Building on Otago
Street in Glasgow. Building completion is expected by June 16.
From Piping Times, April 2003
