Pacific Northwest Scottish Highland Games & Clan Gathering Scotland Comes to the Pacific Northwest, July 26, 27, and 28, 2024! Enumclaw Expo Center, 45224 – 284th Ave SE, Enumclaw, Washington. Registration for the 2024 solo Piping & Drumming, Band, Quartet, and Drum Corps competitions at the Pacific Northwest Scottish Highland Games are now available through June 22, 2024. Please read the rules and pertinent information on the downloadable information guide before proceeding to the online registration. https://www.sshga.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/2024-PNWHG-Information-Guide-Solo-E ..read more

BCPA is pleased to welcome the Kamloops Highland Games back to the competition circuit. This year’s Highland Games are Saturday July 13, 2024 at Albert McGowan Park, 2025 Summit Drive, Kamloops B.C. Entries for solo piping, drumming, and pipe bands are now open April 28 – June 28. https://bcpipers.wildapricot.org/event-5628178 https://bcpipers.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/2024KamloopsInfoGuide-3-3.pdf ..read more

The 28th Annual Skagit Valley Highland Games and Celtic Festival is set to take place on July 13th and 14th at the Skagit County Fairgrounds in Mount Vernon, Washington. In addition to holding the games at a new venue, principal organizer and Director of the Celtic Arts Foundation, Cayley Schmid, has expanded competitive Piping and Drumming at this year’s event. A full slate of Solo Piping and Drumming, Quartet, Drum Fanfare, and Pipe Band Competitions will be offered on both days of the Highland Games. In addition, there will be two new special solo piping events. On Saturday ..read more

The CLASP The World Amateur Champion of Champions Solo Piping Competition Run by The CLASP. The CLASP Champion of Champions competition marks 20 years of The CLASP. To celebrate this, CLASP will feature the world’s top amateur solo pipers, worldwide, using a series of qualifying events both in-person and on-line.  Competition date – 27th April 2024 The Competition League for Amateur Solo Pipers (The CLASP) was set up by The National Piping Centre in 2003 to give adult amateur pipers a competition platform to compete on, through a series of grading competitions held yearly throug ..read more

Entries are open April 21 – June 21, 2024 Friday, July 5 & Saturday, July 6, 2024 at King’s Park, 550 Eckhardt Avenue West, Penticton BC. https://bcpipers.wildapricot.org/event-5628172 https://bcpipers.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/2024PentictonInfoGuide.pdf ..read more

The Bellingham Scottish Gathering takes place Saturday June 1, at their new location, Marine Park, in Blaine Washington. “Blaine by the Sea”. Entries are open and close, May 10. Entry form here: https://bcpipers.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/BSG-Piping-Drumming-Entry-Form-2024.pdf ..read more

https://bcpipers.wildapricot.org/resources/Documents/2024/2024AGResultsConsolidated.pdf https://bcpipers.wildapricot.org/resources/Documents/2024/2024AG-Band-Master-Tally-Sheets.pdf Band Contest Grade 1 MSR Simon Fraser University (1,1,1,1) St. Thomas Alumni (2,2,2,2) P1: Alasdair Henderson P2: Michael Grey D: Ian Lawson E: James Beaumont Grade 1 Medley Simon Fraser University (1,1,1,1) St. Thomas Alumni (2,2,2,2) P1: James Beaumont P2: David Hilder D: Ian Lawson. E: Michael Grey Port Moody Pipe Band Trophy Overall: SFU, Triumph Street Pipe Band Best Drum Corps: SFU Grade 2 MSR Cascadia (1 ..read more

BCPA is proud to present our 1st Annual Ceilidh, Saturday, April 20th at the Cloverdale Catholic Hall. We’ve heard from our members time and time again that they would love to see a social event like they had in the past, an event where everyone can come and enjoy an evening of fun, an event where young and old can come together. We’ve listened to your requests and our newly formed Youth Committee has been working hard to bring this evening to fruition. We are proud to announce this Annual Ceilidh on April 20, 2024. This event is sure to be the social event of the calendar, an atmosphere ..read more

We would like to thank the Delta School District and especially the Seaquam School and staff for a perfect venue for the BC Pipers to have such a successful 92nd Gathering. Special shout out to Vice Principal Maggie Callendar for being there for us all weekend. The Sandman Airport Inn, as our host hotel and Moxies restaurant for the BCPA dinner. The Annual Gathering would not be successful without the high level of competitors and bands in attendance. Thank you to those from near and far with your family and supporters, the games truly was a Gathering of the highest caliber. Special shout ..read more

The entries for the British Columbia Highland Games open today, March 31, and close May 31. This includes the RSPBA Pacific Rim Adult Solo Snare Drumming Championship, presented by BCPA and hosted by ScotfestBC. RSPBA judges are Davey Brown, Aberdeen, Scotland and Duncan Millar, Coquitlam, B.C. https://bcpipers.wildapricot.org/event-5617032 ..read more