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Gortaclare Pipe Band is a Northern Ireland competitive Grade 4A pipe band which competes under the auspices of the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association. The band has gained many acheivements over the years and has won major piping and drumming championships including the unforgetable 2001 European and Cowal Games successes.
Our web site aims to provide
you with comprehensive information on the band history, its' leadership
& personnel, the competition honours won by us, and of course up to
date news. If you
have any important Piping or druming related news, please get in touch
with the webmaster.
Also please make use of our WebForum,
Excellent Band Talk!!!!!
Gortaclare's current pipe major is Norman Cochrane. A man with true experience in the highest levels of pipeband music, his wealth of talent surely brings new encouragement and more improtantly prizes!
Since Autumn 2000, when Norman took over the band from the legendary Noel Clarke, he had no doubt that he had to work hard to live up to the stature of his predecessor.
Norman accepted this and tansformed the band into a prize winning champion band. So far under his management he has helped the band atain their first European Championship Victory at Ayr 2001. The year continued with gathering prizes at nearly every local contest and the band finished the year by winning the Cowal Games in their respective grade.
The season of 2002, Gortaclare
was upgraded to 4A. This was insomeways a frustrating year for
the band as they just finished outsidethe prizes in some contests. In
saying that we did clinch a first place at Moria,mid season to set us
up for the Worlds. This year we came 4th at the Worlds and 3rd at the
Cowal. As this was the first year in this higher grade it could not of
gone any better. So bring on 2003!! Yeeeehaa!.
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Award!!
October 2002 - Boghall
and Bathgate Caledonia Pipe Band have
nominated Pipe Band Web Site of the Week Awards through their website.
Thanks to Charlie Archibald (Webmaster of the Boghall unofficial website)
for his nomination.
Gortaclare Pipe Band 2001
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