Simon Fraser University Pipe Band

After 30 years, Six World Championships, 10 CDs and concerts in many of the World’s great concert halls, the SFU Pipe Band returns to New York for a spectacular weekend of music, instruction and fun. Considered the most comprehensive event of its kind worldwide, this Festival offers an amazing weekend of Scottish music and dance with a wide variety of courses to entice those of all experiences and abilities. Meet our cast of internationally renowned instructors and performers. Join us for a weekend to remember!

Concert and Highland Arts Festival
MAY 4-6, 2012 – New York City, NY
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The SFU Pipe Band will be headlining a weekend in Winnipeg full of instructional workshops, performances and social events. The events are being hosted by the Winnipeg Highland Arts Festival.

April 1 – Meet & Greet

April 2 – Ceilidh

April 3 – Concert ‘SFU Live In Winnipeg’

Information regarding instructional workshops, concert tickets and ceilidh tickets can all be found at the festival website:

www.sfuinwinnipeg.com

The SFU Pipe Band will be performing and competing throughout the weekend of April 16-18, 2010 in Las Vegas:

Friday, April 16th (8:00 PM – 10:00 PM): Live @ New York, New York – Hotel & Casino

Saturday, April 17th (10:00 AM – 4:00 PM): Las Vegas Celtic Gathering & Highland Games @ Floyd Lamb Park.

Sunday, April 18th (10:00 AM – 4:00 PM): Las Vegas Celtic Gathering & Highland Games @ Floyd Lamb Park.

Festival Website:

http://www.lasvegascelticsociety.org/index.html

SFU Pipe Band will be performing at the Winspear Centre for the Arts, Enmax Hall.

The show starts Sunday April 11, 2010 at 2:00pm.

Tickets to the event can be purchased here:

http://www.tixonthesquare.ca/event/detail/1384/

Festival Website:

http://www.edpb.ca/EHAFindex.htm

SFU Pipe Band is appearing at the 2010 Olympics ceremonies on February 16th at the Richmond O-Zone.  The band will play on the Main Stage at 9:15pm.

Here are links to the Richmond O Zone site for details:

http://www.richmondozone.com/programming/element/main-stage/

http://www.richmondozone.com/calendar/

You can also hear the SFU Pipe Band Thursday Feb. 11 at Burnaby’s Spirit of Burnaby event, Metropolis at Metrotown. (Event: 2:30pm-6:30pm; Band: 5:45pm)

http://twitter.com/SFU/status/8907034721

SFU Pipe Band will once again be staging a full 3 hour concert at the Vernon and District Performing Arts Centre in Vernon, British Columbia.  Current plans include multi angle video recording of the event for live streaming through SFUTube.com

SFU Pipe Band is excited to announce it will share the stage with the Field Marshal Montgomery Pipe Band at the Belfast Waterfront Centre on August 6th, 2010.  The band is honoured to be invited to perform in Northern Ireland alongside Richard Parkes and Keith Orr and their corps and has no doubt it will be an entertaining evening for all involved.

The SFU Pipe Band is proud to release its 11th album, Affirmation, recorded at the band’s sold-out show at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall just three days before winning its sixth World Pipe Band Championship at Glasgow Green.

Pipe Major Terry Lee listed among the album’s highlights the band’s rendition of the piobaireachd ‘Field of Gold’, composed by Donald MacLeod, and the Mark Saul-composed suite, ‘Tir Nan Og’. Terry also cites the opening track, ‘Beaches of Harris’, as being “very powerful.”

“August 2009 was one of the best months in SFU’s history”, Terry Lee commented. “Playing before a packed house and recording the Affirmation CD on the Wednesday before the World’s was a thrill. Then to win our sixth World Championship three days later was a tremendous high point for us.”

The album, officially released on December 7th, is available at the band’s newly launched website, SFUPB.com, as well as at select retailers. Via the band’s online store, fans can purchase the album in a variety of formats, including cd, limited-edition autographed cd, MP3 album, and individual MP3 tracks.

Beaches of Harris Sample

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Big Reels Sample

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Salute to Willie McErlean ‘79 Sample

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Dusty Miller Sample

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Tir Nan Og Sample

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