LIANNE BRADSHAW Drummer Antigonish Highland Games Hall of Fame Induction July 11, 2019 Lianne Bradshaw (left) being inducted in the Highland Games Hall of Fame. Also in picture; Robert Cochrane (center) and Iain Boyd Lianne Bradshaw started playing drums with the...
BRUCE GANDY Piper Antigonish Highland Games Hall of Fame Inducted: July 11, 2019 When Bruce Gandy moved to the Maritimes in 1997, he was already an accomplished piper. For the previous fourteen years he had played with the 78th Fraser Highlanders, the first pipe band...
BARRY EWEN Piper Antigonish Highland Games Hall of Fame Inducted: July 11, 2019 Barry was born in Lanarkshire, Scotland. He took his first bagpipe lessons from Jim Moffat when he was nine years old. He was later taught by Pipe Major Tom Anderson of the...
DOUG BOYD Piper Antigonish Highland Games Hall of Fame Inducted: July 11, 2019 Doug (right) practicing a few tunes with Jamie Ross. Doug grew up on St. Mary’s Street and started his piping career at the age of 11 in a piping and drumming school operated by the Royal...
Dr. Angus MacDonald of Glenuig, Scotland, was named Open Piper of the Games six times during the eleven years he lived in Nova Scotia. As a player and instructor he greatly advanced the knowledge of piobaireachd, the classical music of the Great Highland Bagpipe. He...
Fr. Neil McKenna of Antigonish, was a top individual drummer, instructed three Nova Scotia-based pipe bands and co-organized the first Highland Games Pipe Band Tattoos. He was lead drummer for the Antigonish Legion Pipe Band drum corps which was named to the North...
Scott Williams of Antigonish has played with and/or instructed five championship bands. A fine solo player, he was the second winner of the prestigious Allan Beaton Memorial Trophy. He is a well-respected piping judge and has written extensively on pipers and pipe...
Allan Cameron of Springfield, Antigonish County, won numerous solo medals at the Games, was a member of the first pipe band raised in Antigonish, played for Highland dancers for four decades and was official piper of the Antigonish Highland Society for nearly fifty...
The Antigonish Legion Pipe Band was a consistent winner at the Highland Games from 1970 to 1976. In that time, the band captured two North American championships in Grade 3 and was named Intercontinental champion for Grade 2 in 1975. In August 1976 the Legion band...