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Kevin Auld, Steve Roy, and Marcie MacRae have been volunteering with Northwest Junior Pipe Band for several years now, leading students to top finishes in Scotland in 2008, and now to the best combined season results in the band's history.
The band finished 1st place in Grade 4 at these competitions this year:

BCPA Annual Gathering mini-band competition
Bellingham Highland Games
Sons of Scotland Highland Games
BC Highland Games
Skagit Valley Highland Games Day 1
Skagit Valley Highland Games Day 2 for...

I have just completed my bagpipe tutorial, "Bagpipes 101" this book and CD are supported @ bagpipes101.com and can be purchased online for $25.00 + S&H. This is...

As a teacher and musician, something I consider very important is giving back to the community. Now, I haven't always felt this way, and used as an excuse that I didn't know what I could do. We can all do something if we put a bit of thought into it, and now more than ever, it's important.I donate my bagpiping services each year for a select group of charities I feel a personal affinity toward. In each case, I came upon them not exactly by accident, but through serendipity or synchronicity. I know, two big words that simplified could just mean 'chance.' But I don't believe there are any accidents.Camp Korey is a place for kids suffering from serious and life threatening illnesses to go and have some fun. It is one of Paul Newman's (pictured above at Camp Korey) Hole In The Wall Camps. Korey Rose was an inspiring young man who died from cancer in his teens. I played the pipes at his graveside service in Enumclaw in 2004. What blew me away about that day, was that usually a small gathering of family and friends of the deceased attend a graveside. This one was attended by well over 300 people. A few years later, Korey's father, Tim Rose, a Senior Vice President at Costco, worked with Newman to...