26th July 2010 BLACK
RAVEN PIPE BAND - PARADE OF 100 PLAYERS Black
Raven Pipe Band is planning to celebrate it’s Centenary with a Parade
of 100 Players on Saturday 4th September 2010
Starting at the Bandstand Lusk at 5 p.m. and ending at the GAA Club for
a BBQ.
Standard 3/4 and 4/4 marches will be played.
We are working hard to make that magic number so please register your
interest by e-mail blackravenpipeband@gmail.com
or by contacting the Pipe Major on 086 838 1289 indicating the number
of Pipers and Drummers wishing to participate!!
19th July 2010 EAST
OF IRELAND CHAMPIONSHIPS - HOWTH *** CONTEST CANCELLED ***
The contest schelduled to take place on Saturday,July 24th has been
cancelled.
5th July 2010 ALL
IRELAND CHAMPIONSHIPS - BALLINA : RESULTS [UPDATED]
St.Laurence O’Toole PB, in it’s centenary year,wins the All Ireland
Grade 1 title for the third time in past four years, and the 4th time
in all, at the 65th All Ireland PB Championships in Ballina Co. Mayo,
Saturday 3rd July.
The band won all of the major prizes on offer in the grade; MSR,
Medley, Overall winner and Drum Corp and Bass & Tenor section.
Special congratulations to all involved.
Of the six All Ireland titles in the contest honours were divided
evenly between the bands representing the IPBA and the RSPBA(NI
branch),three to the IPBA and three to the RSPBA(NI branch).
30th June2010 ALL
IRELAND MARCHING BAND COMPETITION & PARADE - DONEGAL TOWN, 18TH JULY
A competition & parade will take place in Donegal Town on Sunday
the 18th of July 2010 @ approx 2p.m.
The Closed Section comprises of the Bands affiliated to the Ulster
Marching Bands Association.
The Open Section is open to any Band who wishes to compete in any of
the following sections:
Accordion,
Whistles,
Flutes,
Pipes and either marching or non marching.
All Bands will be adjudicated by qualified competition adjudicators.
Contact for entry:
P.J. Cavanagh Secretary
Ulster Marching Bands Association
The Mall, Ramelton, Co. Donegal
Tel: 00353 (0) 749151007 or 00353 (0) 863082244
E-mail: ulstermarchingbandsassociation@hotmail.com
Special Accommodation Rates available in both Abbey & Central
Hotels.
Contact: Angela McGettigan Tel: 00353 (0) 872359909
E-mail: angelamcgettigan@gmail.com
29th June2010 ALL
IRELAND CHAMPIONSHIP 2010 - DRAW (UPDATED) The draw for the All Ireland Championship which takes
place in Ballina,Co.Mayo on Saturday 3rd July is now available.
Please click on the link below to download.
23rd June2010 MALAHIDE
PIPE BAND CHAMPIONSHIPS - DRAW
The Malahide 2010 Pipe Band Contest takes place on Saturday 26th of
June and the draw is now available for download.
Please click on the link below.
14th June2010 SOUTH
OF IRELAND PIPING & DRUMMING CONTEST 2010 - COBH Video promo for the recent contest at Cobh,Co.Cork.
17th May 2010 MALAHIDE
PIPE BAND CHAMPIONSHIPS - ENTRY FORM
The Malahide 2010 Pipe Band Contest takes place on Saturday 26th of
June.
Please click on the link below to download the entry form.
15th May 2010 MONAGHAN
PIPE BAND CHAMPIONSHIPS
Results from the Monaghan Pipe Band Championships
Monaghan Pipe Band Championships
Castleblaney
24th April
2010
Grade 5/4B
1st
Achill PB
2nd
Bellaghy
3rd
Clontibret
Grade 4/4A
1st
Thiepval Memorial
2nd
Bellaghy
Grade 3B
1st
Colmcille PB
2nd
Quinn Memorial
3rd
Thiepval Memorial
Grade 3A
1st
Quinn Memorial
2nd
Colmcille PB
3rd
Raffrey PB
Grade 2
1st
Howard Memorial
2nd
Raffrey PB
5th May 2010 MUNSTER
QUARTETS RESULTS
Results from the Munster Quartets, Quintets & Mini Bands which was
held at St Stephen’s School, De La Salle,Waterford on May 2nd.
Click below to download the full list
of results -
20th April 2010 ALL-IRELAND
PIPE BAND CHAMPIONSHIPS 2010
Saturday 3rd of July 2010 is the date.
Ballina, Co. Mayo, Stevenites GAA ground, is the venue.......close to
the town centre.
Excellent venue ! Has plenty of area for bands preparation for contest
and also car and camper van parking.
The website address for accommodation in Ballina is - www.northmayo.ie
29th March 2010 MUNSTER
SOLOS AND LEAGUE RESULTS Results from the second Munster Solo League and the
Munster Solo
Championship Competitions - March 28th
19th February 2010 “HIBERNIAL
DRESS, CALEDONIAL CUSTOM: A BRIEF HISTORY OF IRISH KILTS & TARTANS”
By Matthew Newsome & Todd Wilkinson
While the traditional tartan kilt is seen generally as an icon of
Scottish culture, many people, especially Americans of Irish heritage,
also associate the garment with Ireland as that nation’s “traditional
dress”.
The Internet has only heightened this misconception with all sorts of
claims for an ancient pedigree for the kilt & tartan cloth.
It is our hope that this brief article will help set the record
straight in terms of the origins of the kilt as an Irish garment, as
well as the association of tartan with the Emerald Isle.
13th January 2010 BLACK RAVEN
PIPE BAND LAUNCH CENTENARY CELEBRATIONS January
1st 2010 saw the launch of the Black Raven Pipe Band centenary
celebrations with a special function held at its band hall premises in
Lusk Co. Dublin.
The night was filled with music song and dance and plenty of good food,
and continued into the early hours.
Members, ex members and special
invited guests including the bands 92-year-old former Pipe Major and
President Jimmy Russell attended the evenings festivities.
Also
present was the band’s Vice President Patrick Weston.
A photographic
history of the band was also launched on the band’s web site
www.blackravenpipeband.net
The photographs were collected and compiled by band member Christy
Russell.
The photographs depict the ever-changing personnel and
uniforms throughout the years.
On display in the band hall were the efforts of the local Lusk National
Schools in the area who were asked to design a logo for the bands
centenary.
There were over sixty entries all of superb quality and the
winner will be announced in the next few weeks.
In his address Pipe Major Paul Russell thanked all those who attended
even in the bad weather conditions.
Paul expressed his disappointment
at the cancellation of a planned performance in the village during the
evening due the icy roads.
He also explained that the band is working
extremely hard to make a serious impression in the pipe band world
during the competition season.
Further centenary celebration news to follow soon.
Seamus Russell
P R O Black Raven Pipe Band
Phone 00 353 87 2621312
30th September 2009 MARTIN
DEMPSEY - RIP Martin Dempsey, a Wexford man by
origin, came to live and work in Kildare in the early 1970s and it
wasn’t long thereafter that he joined the ranks of the Lord Edward’s
Own Pipe Band based in Narraghmore, on the Kildare-Wicklow border.
He was to devote the next 35 years or so of his life to that band in
all manner of roles.
At various times over the years he was a committee member, a piper, a
Pipe-Major and a trustee and for many years, indeed, combined two or
more of those positions.
He remained faithful to the band in season and out of season, and was
always there whether the band’s fortunes were waxing or waning.
Perhaps his greatest talent and ability was his gift of teaching young
people how to play the chanter, to begin with, and then the pipes.
He trained many young players over the years with a patience and
determination that few have matched. In an era when the day-to-day
hum-drum job of teaching youngsters is being increasingly less widely
done, Martin worked away behind the scenes at the role with a great
degree of success and many young people played not only with Lord
Edward’s Own but with the Gorey and Durrow Pipe Bands and, indeed, in
some cases, went on to join bands in the higher grades.
Martin was synonymous with Lord Edward’s Own. His imposing physique and
stature meant that he was a beacon for the band and for piping more
generally.
He devoted many years’ service to the Irish Pipe Band Association
both at Leinster Branch level and at national level, holding various
officerships from his earliest involvement right up to the time of his
death.
He lived for piping and the wider realm of musical culture.
For a long number of years he almost single-handedly organised the
Dúchas Chill Dara Festival of Music and Dance, bringing groups
of musicians and dancers from all over Europe to perform in Kildare,
and brought the band to the Europeade Festival (Europe) and the
Loweneder Peran Celtic Festival (Perranporth, Cornwall) on many
occasions.
Martin’s sudden and unexpected passing on 24 February 2009 came as a
huge shock to his family, friends and associates the length and breadth
of Ireland and beyond.
His departure leaves Lord Edward’s Own Narraghmore Pipe Band and the
wider piping community on this island the poorer for his loss but all
of us are the richer for having known him.
