More Than 5,000 Pipers at World Piping Championships
GLASGOW - More than 5,000 pipers and drummers descended on Glasgow for the International Piping Festival held from August 8-14. The festival showcases the best that international piping has to offer. A Celtic Piping Night held August 11, featured the four-time world champion Simon Fraser University Pipe Band.
The World Pipe Band Championships attracts the cream of the world's pipe bands from United States, Canada, New Zealand, France, Australia, Ireland, South Africa, Pakistan, Oman and Japan.
The top 24 grade one bands in the world all compete and in total there were 232 bands taking part on Glasgow Green, with more than 50 of them from overseas.
Other attractions on the day included Highland dancing competitions, drum major contests, the European Championship of Highland Games and a traditional craft fair.
House of Edgar-Shotts & Dykehead were judged to be the 2005 World Pipe Band Champions, with Field-Marshal Montgomery (from Northern Ireland) in second place and Simon Fraser University (Canada) in third place.
Grade 1:
1st - House of Edgar-Shotts & Dykehead (Scotland)
2nd - Field-Marshal Montgomery (Ulster)
3rd - Simon Fraser University (Canada)
4th - Strathclyde Police (Scotland)
5th - St. Laurence O'Toole (Eire)
6th - 78th Fraser Highlanders (Canada)
Juvenile:
1st - Robert-Malcolm Memorial (Canada)
2nd - Dunoon Grammar Schools (Scotland)
3rd - George Watson's College (Scotland)
4th - Kintyre Schools (Scotland)
5th - Boghall & Bathgate (Scotland)
6th - Lochgelly High School (Scotland)
Drumming:
Robert-Malcolm Memorial
Bass section:
Robert-Malcolm Memorial
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