For All You Canadians

[Malcolm Graham]

Good on them for getting the gig.  Her Maj must have suggested it.

 

The Vancouver Police Pipe Band are crowning their centennial year by performing in the Changing of the Guard at the Royal Palaces. They will be the first non-military pipe band to perform in the ceremony’s 350-year history.
The Pipe Band will be supporting ‘Beating Retreat’ at Horse Guards Parade tomorrow, 11 June, and Thursday, 12 June, at 8pm, followed by the ‘Changing of the Guard’ at Buckingham Palace on 16, 19, 22, and 25 June at 11.30am, and at Windsor Castle on 24 and 26 June at 11am. Rounded off with a brief performance for retired Army Chelsea pensioners in residence at the Royal Chelsea Hospital on 25 June.
The Vancouver Police Pipe Band is an icon within their local piping community, and has proudly represented the police force and City of Vancouver for a century.
The band has played throughout the world, including the Calgary Stampede parade, Canada Day celebrations in Singapore, beaches in Bali, castles in Scotland and the prestigious Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo, the Kanagawa Festival in Japan, Beating Retreat ceremonies in Hong Kong, US Naval Air stations across the United States, in Holland at the Netherlands International Tattoo, and in Italy, Switzerland and Berlin.
“It is always a great honour, as a police pipe band, to play for a member of the Royal Family. But to go to Buckingham Palace to play for our head of state in the Changing of the Queen’s Guard is an immeasurable honour in our centennial year celebration,” says Pipe Sergeant Bob Murphie. “We look forward to working with the Guards Regiments of the Household Division, who we consider to be the very best in the world at what they do. The excitement is definitely building.”
Formed in 1914, the Vancouver Police Pipe Band is the oldest non-military pipe band in British Columbia, and with 100 years of uninterrupted service, it stands as the longest continually serving police pipe band in the world.