St. Andrew's Pipe Band Grade IV

* Accepting new members, teaching adults & youth, and are open to all cultures/genders. Good sense of humour is required.

We are a well-organized, successful, competitive pipe band that formed in 2016. We have a dedicated core group of players and are led by a professional-level piper, allowing us to grow musically and build on our successes every year. While we focus on the music, primarily we are a friend-based and family-based organization who learn, perform and compete together, and care about each other. 

Our plan for the next three years leads us to competing at the World’s again in 2027. Every year, we compete in all of the local contests, and do some travelling. The Saskatchewan Highland Games is a regular competition for us, and we have also competed in the Calgary/Canmore highland games (2018), North American Championships in Maxville, Ontario, (2019), World Championships (2023). Our plan for the next three years includes games in the northern United States (2025), the Midwestern US championships (2026) and a return to Scotland (2027). 

Along with the focus on competition, every year we take on opportunities to perform as a band. We are currently preparing music for a major concert for winter 2026. Regular performances for us include Folklorama, the Kenora Canada Day parade and on the waterfront along with a performance at the Mather Walls house (and sometimes at a local pub), the Morden Corn & Apple Parade, and the Westgrove School community celebration. Over the years we have also performed a joint concert with the Sons of Scotland Pipe Band in Ottawa in a park overlooking Parliament, played outside of the Glasgow Concert Hall, and also along the Buchanan Street mall in Glasgow, performed for ceremonies for the Northwestern Command Royal Canadian Legion, played in the Sikh Society of Manitoba parade, the Carman parade, and the Powerview/Pine Falls parade, as well as private performances in the Interlake. We have many successful solo competitors in our band at the Grade 4 and 3 level, and we host a monthly Piobaireachd workshop with a world-class piper. 

In September 2023 we opened up a successful teaching program in the band, and plan to expand it this year – building towards opening a competitive Grade 5 band.