On Sunday 26 November Napier’s Sound Shell will be host to the two HB Pipe Bands. The programme will feature the HB Caledonian PB and the Napier Pipe Band playing their music and combining for some special items.
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Blossom Festival September 2023
On Saturday 23 September the Band will again be taking part in the Hastings Blossom Festival. This will be a combined band parade with HB Caledonian. The tune list is
M’hairis Wedding/Heykens Serenade
Teribus/Chorriechollies
Highland Laddie/Brown Haired Maiden/Barren Rocks
Green Hills/Battle is O’er
Scotland the Brave bracket
100 Pipers/Bonnie Dundee/Cock of the North
Kilworth Hills/Castle Dangerous
Thomas Sander bracket
Our practice will be at the HB Caledonian Band Rooms, Lyndhurst Rd, at 2.30pm on Sunday 10 Sept.
2021 Blossom Parade
The Blossom Parade has now been moved to Sat 6 November.
The Combined Pipe Bands of Hawke’s Bay will again be parading in the Hasting’s Blossom Parade. Meet at the Civil Defence headquarters, Lyndon Rd E, at 10.20am. Here’s the list of tunes we’ll be playing:
- Mhairi’s Wedding /Heyken’s Serenade
- Teribus/Chorriechollies
- Highland Laddie/Brown Haired Maiden/Barren Rocks
- Green Hills/Battle’s O’er
- Killworth Hills/Castle Dangerous
- Scotland the Brave/Rowan Tree/Bonnie Galloway
- 100 Pipers/Bonnie Dundee
- Bathgate Highland Gathering/Heather Grant of Strathrye
Napier Christmas Parade
On Sunday 6 Dec we paraded, with our friends from HB Caledonian, at the head of the Napier Christmas Parade. While it was rather warm there was a big turnout of band members to entertain the spectators.
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March 16 and 24 events
On Saturday 16 March we will be taking part in the Pipe Band Extravaganza on Napier’s Sound Shell. Starting at 1.15 the programme is as follows
1:20pm Napier Pipe Band #1
1:30pm Hawke’s Bay Caledonian PB – Set
1:45pm Lindisfarne College PB – Set
1:50pm Napier Pipe Band #2
2:00pm Hawke’s Bay Caledonian PB – Medley
2:10pm Lindisfarne College PB – Medley
2:20pm Napier Pipe Band #3
2:30pm Napier Boys High School PB – Set
2:40pm Lindisfarne College PB – Juvenile Event
2:50pm Napier Boys High School PB – Juvenile Event
3:00pm Massed Bands (Green Hills&Battle is O’er and other tunes)
On Sunday 24 we will be staging our first Piping & Drumming Live event at the Napier RSA (start time 4pm). The tunes we will play include (but this may change)
Part 1
On the Road to Passchendaele (3/4)
Swing of the Kilt
The Bathgate Highland Gathering, Heather Grant of Strathrye, The Battle of the Somme (9/8)
The Dawning of the Day; La Boum (4/4)
The Leaving of Liverpool, Kelly The Boy From Killanne, No Awa Tae Bide Awa, Minstrel Boy, Will Ye No Come Back (4/4)
Jigs: Paddy’s Leather Breeches, The Banjo Breakdown (6/8)
Items
Love Song for Deborah Anne
A Song for April
Part 2
Nurse Edith Cavell (with the learners)
Hundred Pipers, Bonnie Dundee (6/8)
Teribus, Chorriechollies
Mhari’s Wedding, Heyken’s Serenade
Amazing Grace
Drum Salute
Park Island Jan2019
On Sunday 20 January we played as a combined band with the Hawke’s Bay Caledonian PB at the soccer match at Park Island. A great parade as we were joined by some members of the Lindisfarne College PB as well.
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