Simon Fraser University Pipe Band
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| Established | 1966
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| Location | Burnaby, British Columbia
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| Grade | 1
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| Pipe Major | Terry Lee
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| D. Sergeant | J. Reid Maxwell
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| Tartan | Ancient Fraser
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| Notable Honours | Winner, World Pipe Band Championships: 1995, 1996, 1999, 2001
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| Website | www.sfupipeband.com |
The Simon Fraser University Pipe Band (SFUPB) is a grade one pipe band affiliated with Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada (a suburb located just east of Vancouver, BC). The band has consistently placed in the top three in world competition and has won the Grade One World Pipe Band Championships four times: 1995, 1996, 1999, and 2001. SFUPB is one of only three bands located outside of the United Kingdom that have won a World Pipe Band Championship (the other two being the 78th Fraser Highlanders Pipe Band and the Victoria Police Pipe Band). In addition, the band has placed second seven times -- finishing in the top two in the world in 11 of its 25 years.
SFUPB regularly competes in Highland Games competitions sanctioned by the British Columbia Pipers Association in the northwestern United States and southwestern British Columbia before travelling to Scotland in August for the World Pipe Band Championships. The band wears the Ancient Fraser tartan.
Since 1994, the SFUPB has led an extensive family of pipe bands which each compete in their own grades. This organization is called the Robert Malcolm Memorial Pipe Band.
[edit] Notable SFUPB personalities
- Jori Chisholm
- Jack Lee
- Terry Lee
- Robert MacNeil
- J. Reid Maxwell
[edit] External links
- Simon Fraser University Pipe Band
- A video of the SFU Pipe Band.
- Tartantown.com - Official supplier to the SFU Family of Bands
- Piping Hot Summer Drummer - SFUPB Piping and Drumming Summer School
- Robert Malcolm Memorial Pipe Band - The SFU feeder band
