Thanks for a Great Season
Just back from Calgary and Canmore Highland Games, and the end of a very good season for the band. The full results for the weekend are available in the usual place and what you'll see is that we split the two contests with our friends in The Rocky Mountain Pipe Band, with them winning the MSR on Saturday on "ensemble preference" and us winning the medley event Sunday. We had 5/8 firsts, and two wins for the drum corps over the weekend. It was a nice way to finish the season.
This was the band's first time competing in Alberta since 2005, and we had lots of people make a point to thank us for coming, which was nice. It was great to be there, and good to see the Alberta scene so vibrant. Whoever arranged the weather did a brilliant job.
The CRPB played in the Canmore beer tent in the evening, and then we stayed to the not-so-bitter end to hear The Searsons, who have been a feature of a few post-Montreal parties at Hurley's Pub in Montreal.
The band has come a tremendous distance this season, and in the beer tent I was asked by one of our World Champion friends what we had done to make such a difference to the sound of the band in the past year.
The answer is fairly simple: we worked very hard, and tried to improve every aspect of the band, starting with each individual instrument. Band members committed to more practices than ever before, and more contests/performances than in recent years. We tried hard to organize schedules long in advance, and we sought assistance from acknowledged experts.
It was the contributions of the members: time, energy, money; and their unrelenting dedication to improvement that made the difference. Congratulations to you all on a great season. Enjoy your week off. ; )
5 comments:
Congrats to the CRPB on the big finish for the season.
Good to see the "red team" out in Alberta once again!
Here's to an exciting 2010!
Cheers,
SS
Thanks Sean, and likewise congrats to the RMPB on a great season, with some significant accomplishments. All the best for 2010.
I dont think I could have asked for a better group of people to play against this past weekend, I am looking forward to future rumbles with the Rocky Mountain Clan.
All the best in 2010 RMPB!!
Cheers
Ian
We thoroughly enjoyed watching your band practice as our daughter played at the playground. We were not able to stay to the end, but did watch you perform, though did not get to hear the results.
Since then I have checked around to get results to see how you did, and am thrilled to hear that you placed so well. Because we watched you practice for so long you felt like our adopted band...
Congratulations to you all for your successes, keep up the hard work. I hope that your successes can attract more young Regina musicians -- I did notice that you had many on the young side receiving outstanding guidance from the more senior members.
Regards,
Calgary Fan
Thanks for the comment, Calgary Fan. It was a great day for the playground and the bands in Canmore, and I'm happy that you enjoyed the band.
Although they weren't there at the games that weekend, we do have an excellent youth pipe band, known as The Conservatory of Performing Arts Pipe Band. It is based at the Continuing Education Centre, University of Regina, and a few of the young folks you saw in the CRPB developed through that band.
http://www.conservatorypipeband.org/
Thanks again for taking the time to comment. Great to hear from you.
Post a Comment