Delta Police Pipe Band
Gets the Royal Nod
 THE DELTA Police Pipe Band has more than 50 members. |
Delta Police Pipe Band is internationally known for its smart, military bearing and excellence of its musical performance.
By appearing twice at the famed Edinburgh Tattoo and at tattoos in Hawaii, Halifax, Rotterdam (Holland), Virginia (USA), and Basel (Switzerland), they have honed an enviable reputation.
The band, with more than 50 members, presents an impressive sight and sound to audiences.
This reputation has won the band standing invitations to perform in tattoos from Finland to Australia; from the Netherlands to Chicago; from Germany to Russia; from the Ukraine to Quebec.
The band recently accepted an invitation to perform at the Windsor Castle Royal Tattoo in May 2011, and will field a band of as many as 52 members.
The tattoo is a not-for-profit event that was launched in May 2008 and was devised as a means of raising the public awareness of the wide contribution to security that the British Armed Forces deliver and the values and standards that it maintains.
It also raises funds to support individual soldiers, and their dependants, who have served and are serving on demanding current operations such as Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Royal British Legion is the recipient of all funds from the tattoo proceedings and provides care and support to all members of the British Armed Forces past and present and their families.
The tattoo takes place on four evenings in the middle of May and is a two-and-a-half hour show. The Tattoo will tell a story of modern life in each of the services (the Army, the Royal Air Force and the Royal Navy) and large screens will show footage from each of the services in action in war zones, taking the audience to the current operational environment. Audiences can also look forward to experiencing a special re-construction of a real-life situation from the Royal Marine Commandos.
This insight into modern military life is interspersed with the ceremonial acts including the Household Cavalry Musical Ride and the Musical Drive of the King’s Troop Royal Horse Artillery. Massed Bands of the various military organizations and a massed Pipe and Drum Band will provide the musical compliment.
The Delta Police Pipe Band is the only foreign band taking part. A bonus is that during the day a horse show takes place in the castle grounds. Further details can be found at www.windsortattoo.com.
Band members are looking forward to the event and Pipe Major Colin Abel, said, “This is an honour that we will be pleased to accept and it marks a recognition of the band we have worked hard to achieve.”
Drum Major Moe Coll, is pleased to be involved in this event and is confident that the band will acquit itself with honour. “Mind you, with all that Brit spit-and-polish around, we’ll have to be on our top form.”
Partial funding for the cost to the band will be provided by the tattoo organizers, but the remainder will be found through fundraising events, such as the Robert Burns Suppers in January 2011, and a Celtic Gala.
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