Piping and Drumming

Antigonish native Lianne Bradshaw, who started playing drums with the Clanranald Pipe Band in the early 1980s, joined the Grade 2 Scotia Legion Pipe Band - a huge jump from the Grade 4 Antigonish band 0 within three years. As a drum corps member and their instructor,...

A mainstay of the Games - both as a judge and a competitor - Bruce Gandy has excelled during his visits to Antigonish. As a professional solo piper, his streak of victories is an incredible one, including winning the Ray Stanley Chisholm Buckle as open piper of the...

At the games, Ewen excelled in the the professional jig, while securing open piper honours on four occasions. In 1974, he took over as pipe major of the Antigonish Legion Pipe Band, a group that already won two North American Grade 3 titles. In 1975, after winning top...

An Antigonish native, Doug Boyd started piping as an 11-year-old with a school operated by Royal Canadian Legion Arras Branch 59. He become the youngest piper with the Grade 3 Antigonish Legion Pipe Band, a group that won several major awards, culminating with a...

Dr. Angus MacDonald of Glenuig, Scotland, was named Open Piper of the Games six times during the eleven years he lived in Nova Scotia. As a player and instructor he greatly advanced the knowledge of piobaireachd, the classical music of the Great Highland Bagpipe. He...

Fr. Neil McKenna of Antigonish, was a top individual drummer, instructed three Nova Scotia-based pipe bands and co-organized the first Highland Games Pipe Band Tattoos. He was lead drummer for the Antigonish Legion Pipe Band drum corps which was named to the North...

Scott Williams of Antigonish has played with and/or instructed five championship bands. A fine solo player, he was the second winner of the prestigious Allan Beaton Memorial Trophy. He is a well-respected piping judge and has written extensively on pipers and pipe...

Allan Cameron of Springfield, Antigonish County, won numerous solo medals at the Games, was a member of the first pipe band raised in Antigonish, played for Highland dancers for four decades and was official piper of the Antigonish Highland Society for nearly fifty...