![]() ![]() The stadium lights would hit you as you came onto the astroturf and 33,000 spectators would cheer, obviously impressed by what they saw. I’m not much for massed bands, having played in probably 10 million of them, but it was exciting every night when the bands opened the show by coming out of the the big castle at one end of the field. I was in my late teens at the time and every night after the pipe bands performed en masse I would scramble to a spot in the stands to watch the Royal Marines band, which never ceased to thrill me. SCOTTISH BAGPIPE PLAYER FESTIVAL FULLThe grandstand at Exhibition Place was full each night for the first few years - 33,0000 each time and it really was a good show. We rehearsed these on a couple of afternoons mid-week, the first couple of years under D/M Norm MacKenize, and the last couple with, I believe, Larry Fullerton. The biggest part were four tattoo shows held each evening from Thursday to Sunday. The weekend competition was only a small part the event. I attended these as a member of the Guelph Pipe Band starting with the first one in 1972. The following recollections by Jim McGillivray. Simply click on the file (bottom of the page) you want to listen to or right-click to download. The following year, older brother Will and I were both in the Grade 1 contest playing pipes with The Waterloo Regional Police Pipe Band. I competed in Grade 4 in 1972 (my first year playing pipers) and remember watching the Grade 1 contest from the stands. Grade 1 – 28 Bands, Grade 2 – 16 bands, Grade 3 – 28 bands, Grade 4 – 46 bands. 1972 Scottish World Festival held at the CNE fairgrounds in Toronto Canada. ![]()
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