Manawatu Scottish Society claimed the Turakina Highland Games in the weekend, pipping NZ Police at the post in both Piping and Drumming. More results available in the read more section. (more…)

PBNews congratulates Stuart Easton and Shelley Easton (nee Reid) on their marriage in the weekend.

Over 200 pipers and drummers will descend on Christchurch for 2010 National Summer School, held at Christchurch Boys High School over the next week. (more…)

Jim Fraser QSM, stalwart of the Canterbury Pipe Band Scene and a friend to all members of the Pipe Band community, passed away on Tuesday. Jim was awarded the Queens Service Medal in the 2010 New Years Honours list, just days before his untimely death.

Jim’s funeral will be on Wednesday the 13th of January, at Rangi Ruru, starting at 1pm. Our thoughts go out to Francie, Michelle and Bruce and the rest of his family.

Stuart Easton was the eventual winner of the annual New Years Day Waipu Highland Games, after four different competitors took an event each. (more…)

PBNews wishes all those in the piping and pipe band fraternities Seasons Greetings. 2010 is expected to be a big year for New Zealand Piping, with the National Championships in Masterton expected to be the most competitive in years. (more…)

Manawatu Scottish Society Pipe Band won their 9th Palmerston North Square Day Grade 1 Aggregate on Saturday, on a day that was a test for every band in attendance. (more…)

The New Zealand Police Pipe Band took away the aggregate Grade 1 Prize at Victoria Square in the weekend, heading off the local band Canterbury Caledonian Society. (more…)

The World Champion Pipe Band, Simon Fraser University, have pulled out of their proposed New Zealand trip.  This was supposed to be their second trip to New Zealand, after a successful concert in 2001. It is reported that numbers able to make the trip was the main factor in not being able to attend.

Brendon Eade from Hamilton this weekend completed a rare triple, winning not only the prestigious Silver Chanter, but the A Grade and the Former Winners Clasp in the same weekend. (more…)