Maybe sometimes you wish you heard bagpipes more often, aside from Remembrance Day and St. Patrick’s Day. Maybe sometimes, you wish you could sit outside and enjoy both the sunshine and the sound of bagpipes.
If this sounds like you, you’ll be sure to enjoy an upcoming pipes competition hosted by the Grand Forks Pipes and Drums next week.
The Grand Forks Pipes and Drums will be hosting the “Spring Fling” piping competition on May 4 and 5. Nine groups of pipers from around B.C. will join our very own local pipers for two days of bagpiping.
According to Pipes and Drums member Steve McGibbon, the festivities start Friday at the Legion with dinner, followed by a horn and jig competition at 8:30 p.m. The fun continues through the evening and starts up again Saturday morning with a pancake breakfast at the Legion from 8 to 10 a.m.
At 10 a.m. the pipers will parade from the Legion to Market Avenue for the march competition, and then will perform as a mass band.
After a lunch of chili at the Legion, the groups will go to James Donaldson Park for a medley competition at 2 p.m. The event will finish off with a dance competition, dinner and performance of the Grand Forks Pipes and Drums on Saturday night, starting at 5 p.m. Dinner is at 7 p.m., and Mad Dog 20/20 will be performing. The dinner of prime rib and trimmings is $30, and tickets for just the dance portion will be available at the door at 8 p.m.
Members of the public are welcome. More information available through the Legion or by contacting bmcgibbon@xplornet.ca or 250-443-9236.