The SFU Pipe Band is getting ready to take on the world once again.
The band is offering a free concert at the Simon Fraser University Burnaby Mountain campus this weekend in preparation for their trip to the world pipe band championship in Glasgow, Aug. 17 to 18.
The concert is set for Sunday, Aug. 5 from 2 to 3 p.m. near the Academic Quadrangle pond.
The band is based at SFU and holds its practices in Burnaby and Surrey. It draws members from around the Lower Mainland, with some players from the U.S., Scotland and even New Zealand.
Three of this year’s band members are from Burnaby: longtime member Derek Milloy, Damien Burleigh and SFU student Jamie Kubasiewicz.
The band is led by Pipe Major Alan Bevan, Pipe Sergeant Jack Lee (currently the world’s top solo piper) and lead drummer Reid Maxwell.
When they head back to Scotland for the world championships, they’re taking impressive credentials with them: the band has won its Grade 1 (the top level) category six times and placed in the top three more than 20 times. Last year saw the SFU Band place fifth of the 26 bands that made the final cut.
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