New Hampshire Highland Games 2010

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By Jed in : Competition // Sep 20 2010

The Manchester Pipe Band attended the New Hampshire Highland Games this past weekend and enjoyed perfect bagpipe weather. Manchester competed in the Grade II medley event and placed third, with the Mohawk Valley Frasers taking second place and the Stuart Highlanders of Boston winning the event.

The band had a strong medley performance and would like to thank Tom Burnham for leading and tuning the band in his first official outing as PM. We would also like to thank Mike St. Germain for directing the drum corp throughout the day and Sean Stanish for stepping in as bass drummer for the first time.

In addition to the band’s performance, individual band members achieved notable solo performance awards as well.

Drummer Sean Stanish took the Grade 3 Drummer of the Day award.
Pipers Yoann Le Goff (Grade 4Sr) got 2nd in Piobaireachd and 3rd in 2/4 March, Josh Spencer (Grade 4Sr) got 4th in 2/4 March and 5th in 6/8 March while Dan Pizzolowski as Grade 1 Piper of the Day, won both the March, Strathspey and Reel and 6/8 March event as well as getting 2nd in Hornpipe & Jig and 5th in Piobaireachd! Congratulations to all those who competed throughout the weekend!

With the New Hampshire Highland Games closing out Manchester’s competition season, the band will now look forward to improving its’ skills in preparation for attending the Las Vegas Invitational Pipe Band Championships in April of 2011. Manchester will continue rehearsals throughout the winter to prepare for this exciting endeavor. The pipe and drum sections are both expecting to add personnel for the 2011 competition season and look forward to a winter full of long practices and good times!

Videos of all three performances in the Grade II medley event are posted below :

Manchester PB, Manchester CT

Stuart Highlanders PB, Boston MA

Mohawk Valley Frasers PB, Rome NY

3 Responses to "New Hampshire Highland Games 2010"

  1. Scott Armit September 23, 2010 4:55 pm

    Thanks for putting this videos up. Cheers.

  2. Chris Hamilton September 29, 2010 9:30 pm

    Hey, Tom, I didn’t know you were P/M now. Great job, and best of luck for the future!

    CH

  3. Jim Davidson October 5, 2010 9:46 pm

    Nice performance; hope the band is back on track for 2011. This is a great start! Nice medley played well. Good Luck!

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