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Band Centennial Year Starts with Council Presentation
On Monday, 16 January 2012, the Band piped Medicine Hat City Council in chambers to start their meeting. A brief powerpoint on band history was followed by a special drone banner presentation by Mayor Norm Boucher, sponsored by the Burns Club of Medicine Hat. This can be viewed as a video on the city website here:http://www.medicinehat.ca/City%20Government/City%20Council/Video/index.asp
Band Rocks Brooks
A cool morning on 11 June 2011 in Brooks, the band took on the parade route again, an hour long parade with lots of horse droppings but not horse malfunctions. The Brooks Legion treated us to a BBQ hamburger and suds and we gave them a couple of sets. A good time was had by all!Big Back to Back Weekends for the Band
After playing for Spectrum on 4/5 June 2010, then Decoration Day on the 6th, we began another hectic weekend playing in the Brooks Parade on Saturday morning and then for the South Alberta Light Horse Freedom of the City celebrations in the afternoon. Whew!
Playing at the SALH Freedom of the City celebration at Patterson Armoury
Out with the Old, in with the New
June has seen a couple of more changes as Tony (aka "Scotty") Irvine has retired as snare drummer from the band (and it should be noted that this is his second retirement from the band. And his second retirement, as he has retired from his job with the City as well. Good luck Tony! At the same time, Jay Good was brought into the band as a piper and his first gig was on his home turf, the Brooks parade. Welcome Jay!Ruby B. takes over as Lead Tip
Malcolm G. regretfully tendered his resignation as lead tip with the band in order to fill in as President at the Branch 17 Legion, due to a resignation. We thank Malcolm for his efforts as Sergeant and wish him well with his responsiblities at the Legion. He will continue to play with us, just irresponsibly! Meanwhile, Ruby has done it all before and we look forward to her sharing her long experience on all the skins.Highland Dance Concert
At this annual event, we played a couple of sets between Highland dancing, Scottish Country Dancing, and Jay's jokes...Irish Set at the Legion
The band played at the St. Patrick's Day celebration at the Medicine Hat Legion along with Fiddlers' Green from Calgary. We debuted our new Irish set composed of the "Minstrel Boy" and the "Wearing of the Green."