Update 12th December 2011

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AGM 14th December - in the old kirk at 7pm

After performing at the Bo'ness Hill Climb on Saturday the 10th the season finished on a high note for Bo'ness Pipe Band on Sunday the 11th at Peebles Highland Games. Playing in Grade 4b they were tied once again for first place but lost out on a piping preference to Scottish Borders Pipe Band. The drummers excellent run continued when we took the drumming prise and also the Champion of Champions for Drumming in the Lothian & Borders Branch. Both the Pipe major Colin McCluckie and Leading Drummer Jocky McLean were delighted with the bands' performances this season and will be hoping to start working in the closed season towards the new season when we will compete in a higher grade.

Update 4th September 2011

 From the Bo'ness Journal

Bo’ness  Pipebands drummers have proved they are world-beaters, securing global glory at the show piece event in their competition calendar. The drum corp were crowned world champions in their Grade 4B and the band as a whole was just points away from being named international stars in the same category.
Pipemajor Colin McCluckie led the Bo’ness musicians in their best performance to date at the prestigious championships that attracted 40,000 spectators, 8000 bandsmen and women and 16 nations to Glasgow Green. “It was a brilliant experience, everyone was jumping about,” he said. “I’m just really proud that they put in the hard work to manage to actually achieve this. It’s really hard to get any prize at the World Championships. They did themselves proud”
Medley magic secured the title for the 13 Bo’ness drummers- headed by Jockie McLean after the band had sailed though the qualifying heat in the morning.
Bo’ness  Pipeband were competing against rivals from Northern Ireland, Canada, Germany, the Republic of Ireland, Scotland and England in a 12 strong  finals field. Just  3 points split the top four bands, with Bo’ness being narrowly nudged into fourth spot by an ensemble preference after tying in third place with 13 points behind winners Closkelt.
The band came second at the Scottish Championships, with the drum corp winning first prize, and the band and drum corp both finished second at the British Championships.
The youngest member is 13 and the oldest is 76. “We’ll  be in Grade 4A now. It gets harder but hopefully the success this season will push us on.”

Update 8th August 2011

 The band recently attended the resurected Edinburgh Championships held at Ingliston showground. In the Grade 4 section the band finished in 3rd place and runner up in the Grade 4 MSR competition.
Last Saturdays competition was North Berwick Highland Games and the band upped their performance to finish second behind Canadian band Ogden Legion while the drum corp took 1st place in the Open competition. In the Confined Lothian Borders competition the band and drum corp were first.
Next Saturday Bo'ness will be one of the 240 bands competing at the World Pipeband Championships at Glasgow Green.

Update 26th June 2011

 The month of June was a busy time for the Bo'ness Pipeband attending Parkhead (West Calder) Gala day, Linlithgow Marches guesting with Linlithgow Tartan Army, the Fair E'en and Fair Day. The band also attendd two competitions. At Innerleithen they were third in Grade 4 also winning the drumming and 2nd in the Grade 4 MSR. However the icing on the cake was taking a well deserved 2nd place in the British Championships at Annan last Saturday, where Achill from Eire were 1st and Strathendrick 3rd.  The next outing will be the Edinburgh Championships at Ingliston on 24h July.

Update 26th June 2011

 May was the start of the competition season for the Band and they got off to a good start at Dunbar Piping Festival with a 3rd place in the Grade 4 MSR cmpetition with the drummers taking 1st place also. he highlight of the month however was at the Scottish Championships when the band finished runners up in a field of 22 bands to Closkelt from Northern Ireland. The drum corp again took 1st place to be crowned Scottish Champions. In our local competition at Bathgate Highland Games the band were also in the prizes taking 3rd prize in Grade 4. Next month the band have engagments at Linlithgow Marches and Bo'ness Fair.

Update 16th May 2011

ANNUAL DANCE

The Bands annual dance will be held in the
Richmond Park Hotel on Friday  10th June.
Please contact committee members for more details.

Update 16th May 2011

 End of season 2010-The band had a good run out at Melrose and were second in theMSR competition.Then in the last competition of the season played even better to take first place as a band and also won the drumming.This result meant that it would be tight at the top of the L&B Branch Championship and the band was given the nod after much deliberation.

Update 5th December

Please note that due to the adverse weather conditions
the Craigmount High School Solo Contests have been
postponed until 15th January.

Update 5th November

The Bands AGM will be held on the 18th November in the
Cowdenhill Community Centre, Gangepans at 7PM. All Welcome.

Update 4th September

North Berwick Highland Games
It was back to competitions after the July break and the band produced arguably their best performance so far to win the Grade 4 contest and take the drumming prize as well. This result was duplicated when the L&B confined contest results were announced.

Update 10th July

Please note that for the duration of the school holidays band practice will
be on Tuesdays and Thursdays at the Mission Hall, Cowdenhill, Grangepans
from 7-9pm. There will be chanter practice both nights but learner
drummers please note that there will only be a practice on Tuesdays.
It is important that we have a full attendance at all practices during the
holiday period to prepare for the rest of the season.

Update 23rd June

Continuing on from our success at Bathgate the band had a really good day
out at Innerleithen, with the band were placed 3rd in the Grade 4 contest
and then went on to take 1st place in the Grade 4 MSR contest and the
we also won the drumming in this contest as well.

Linlithgow Marches

We had a great day out at Linlithgow Marches again this year you can
see the photos in our Gallery pages. We would like thank the
Tartan Army for their support and hospitality on the day.

Update 30th May

After a reasonably good start to the season Bo'ness have made the prize
list once again with 4th place at West Lothian Highland Games

Update 22nd May

After being unplaced at the first outdoor contest the band took part in the Scottish Championships in Dumbarton and showed a marked improvement in their performance to earn 6th place as a band and the drum corp coming 4th.

In April the band took part in the L&B indoor contest where they were
placed 2nd & 5th Meghann Pettigrew was 3rd in the stick & pad competition.