A few more pictures from ANZAC day - THE PUB

Congratulations to Frazer on his first appearance with the band. Nothing like starting with style!

Well done everyone.

- Peter W

ANZAC Day Newcastle

Hi All,

Wow it was raining in Adelaide....What the??

You guys looked great, nice turn out considering the conditions.

I had my first ANZAC Day parade with City of Newcastle RSL Pipes & Drums....Wow, what a day and what a turn out we had. All up we had 20 Pipers, 5 Tenors, 6 Sides and our Base Drummer.

Marched through the city, attended the main ceremony in the city and I was given the honour along with two other Pipers to play the Lament (Flowers of the Forest) during the laying of the wreaths which went for about 20 minutes. We then re-formed up and with a Police escort we Piped our way back through the city to Newcastle RSL Club with a large crowd of people following behind, and played there. After that the band then went to Adamstown RSL, then Mayfield RSL and then finishing at Kotara Bowling Club. Big Day. My day began playing at Dawn Service on the RAAF Base at 5:30. Long day, but an extremely memoriable one. I've attached a pic for you all.

Missing you all and love looking at the Web and the Blog to see how you guys are doing.

Cheers,

Andrew.

p.s. Tina hopes to be up and going with the band after the baby is born in August, she's pretty keen.

Anzac Day 25th April 2009

Some more photos from the day.

Lesley

Anzac Day : By Aaron

A great day had by all even me on my first big outting.

Aaron

well i think a great day was had by all. i know my first big march was ...... interesting seeing as i had to leans some new tunes.

ANZAC Parade, Elizabeth

I've put some pictures up on the site from today's ANZAC parade at Elizabeth. 

Without a fan base there to support me like some of you had, I found it a little difficult to get any photos of us playing though. If you have any good photos it would be great if you could post them to the blog and I'll add them to the main site.

Well done to Aaron who played in his first parade today!

Liz

Big, Bold and Brassy

The BBB event on Tuesday night was a great success. I was speaking to the organiser today and he was very happy with the event overall and our band's performance in particular. They were expecting 500 guests and they actually had 570 plus the various bands people and dancers.

Our performance was very well received with the crowd really getting involved and I was proud to lead such a performance on the night. We did well and everyone involved should be congratulated.

Our performance of course was not perfect (we're not a grade 1 band) and some of the issues we've been working on are not completely ironed out yet but we're certainly moving in the right direction.

Again, well done and keep it up!

Liz has posted some photos on the web site.

- Peter W

News from Craig Dawson

Craig and I have been exchanging a few emails recently and Craig asked me to post an update from him as to what he's up to. Craig should be back in about a month's time.


Peter W

From Craig,

"While over here here, I managed to drop in on the local pipe band with my pipes (edited by blog administrator to remove reference to location). I took my camera along too, but I actually forgot about it until after I had left. They play a couple of really nice sets and there are a few tunes that we play in common albeit with a couple of different settings. Liberton Polka was a bit of an eye opener. The Pipe Major has offered to send me their repertoire via email so I'll bring it in to band when I get home and print it up.

Things here have been incredibly busy as you would expect. I have been involved in quite a few ramp ceremonies both for the Canadians and memorials for the recent Australian losses. I have another one tomorrow. The weather, again as expected, has been fantastic. I love the hot weather; except for when I have to play pipes in it! My chanter pitches anywhere from 474 to 480hz depending on the humidity and temperature. Luckily though I have taught one of my colleagues how to use a tuner, so the whole process is sped up considerably. My time here is flying in. It certainly does not feel like I have already been away for two and a half months! Only about a month to go however and I'm sure things will soon feel like they are slowing down as happens when you get closer to going home.

Please pass on my regards to the Tatties and everyone at band as well as to the family.

Take care,

Craig"

Big, Bold and Brassy

As you know we will be playing at the Big, Bold and Brassy event which is part of the Barossa Vintage Festival. The details are:

Venue: Tanunda Show Hall

Date/Time: 14th April, 2009 . Be there for 6:40PM

Play at: 7:40 and 10:40

The band will have it's own table.

I believe food and drink will be available however BYO food and drink is OK.

Should be a good night.

- Peter W

The Blog - New Administrator and New Rule

Hi all,

As of last Thursday night I took over administration of the Blog. At the same time we decided as a band that we would implement a new rule requiring all members who post or add comments to this Blog to take ownership of what they have written by signing their name. From now on, any anonymous posts will be deleted.

For those that have forgotten, or are new to the band, all friends and band members are welcome to post on this Blog. If you don't know the user name and password ask one of the other band members or send me an email at ElizabethPipeBand@gmail.com.

Finally, I encourage you all to contribute any photos you may have taken of our events this year so that we can add them to the website.

Looking forward to seeing all your contributions.

Liz