About the Montreal Pipes & Drums |
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The Montréal Pipes and Drums band consists of roughly 14 pipers, 6 snare drummers, and a bass drummer. The band wears Black Stewart tartan kilts, black vests, black glengarries, silver-studded sporrans, and use distinctive Royal Blue drums. Created in 2000 by Jordon Anderson, the Montréal Pipes and Drums have been one of Montréal's most active and prestigious highland bands. They have represented Montréal’s Saint Patrick’s Society every year since 2000 in North America’s oldest and largest Saint Patrick’s Day parade. In 2001, the MPD were selected as the band of choice for the North American Highland Dance Championships, performed as the feature band at the Grey Cup Pre-Game show. The Montréal Pipes and Drums placed in the top ten (of 30 bands) and won the award for best drum corps in their first Highland Games competition, which also happened to be the North American Championships (2001). In 2002 at only the band’s fourth competition, the Montréal Pipes and Drums took first place against 15 other bands from across the eastern seaboard. Also in 2002, the MPD performed at the opening of Montréal’s prestigious International Film Festival and were the featured pipe band at the Montréal International Celtic Festival as well as being the only pipe band in Montréal’s famous Saint Jean Baptiste parade which draws half a million people each year. The MPD were featured performers in the Victoria Cross Tattoo and the Québec Maritime Festival in 2003, 2004 and 2005. In 2004, they went on a tour through six cities on both eastern and western shores of the northern Saint Lawrence for the Québec Maritime Festival, and have since performed on multiple occasions at Le Manoir Richelieu near Québec City. The MPD also perform annually at the Hymus Resto-Bar for the Robbie Burns Dinner fundraiser for the Montréal Children's Hospital. In 2008, the MPD were temporarily under the direction of former Simon Fraser University Pipe Band member Robert N. MacLeod. Since 2009 the MPD have been under the direction of Pipe Major Jenna Dennison and Lead Tip Nicholas Gélinas, both activee teachers with the Montréal Piping and Drumming School. Jenna Dennison has toured Scotland with the Ontario Massed Legion Pipes and Drums, and has been interviewed about her bagpiping and work with the MPD by the Montréal Gazette and Global's "This Morning Live". |
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