Happy Tuesday folks!
Weather here in the Peg is gorgeous as always.... And by always I mean this past few weeks.
Well, the big blue machine was in full steam roll this weekend as we took our gang outside at the Brandon Highland Festival.
The weather didn't exactly cooperate.. It was beautiful, but there was this wind. Makes for a tricky ensemble effect. The wind tends to take sound and run with it.
Still our seasoned pipe corp dealt with it well and I'm proud to say cleaned house in both grade 2 and the un-contested grade 3 contest.
Drumming was a story in itself. We had great adjudication and I have so many great comments from Dave Bowman (SFU) that I have plenty to work on!
We won drumming in the MSR but showed our green in the Medley. Mostly nerves. We practice one way and then hit the line and sometimes the young guys try to hide...it never works :)
We made some adjustments on Sunday at rehearsal and I'm confident we'll keep improving every week.
I don't expect miracles. As my mentor and former lead-drummer Bob Cooper said to me, "this will take time" we played well, the music quality and calibre was confirmed. We just need to harness our nerves as Scotland is a helluva lot more nerve racking than any other.
Anyways I should also mention Ryan Cadotte, long time piper with us, got hitched saturday night... To his beautiful, yet obviously slightly insane new wife... "Welcome to our crazy ass family!!!!!!" :) we're happy to have you officially.
Now I'm off to the pharmacy as I seem to have one kick ass cold...
Cheers,
Sean
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