UK Grade One Champions 2023 - Peoples Ford Boghall & Bathgate Caledonia Pipe Band

The championships were held in beautiful Lurgan Park on Saturday 10 June 2023.
The band's Pipe Major is Ross Harvey and the Leading Drummer is Kerr McQuillan here making his first championship appearance in that role.

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For centuries, there has been a long-held belief that bagpipes were classified as an instrument of war and were banned in the Act of Proscription of 1746.

The story goes that in the aftermath of the Jacobite Rising of 1745, culminating in the now infamous Battle of Culloden, possessing a set of pipes or playing bagpipes them was banned.

Unfortunately, history is always far more complicated than we think...

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