Established 1982 Pipe major Doug MacRae Active from 1982 Grade 1 | Location Toronto, Ontario Drum sergeant Drew Duthart Record label Lismor Recordings Genre World | |
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Notable honours Winner, World pipe band Championships: 1987. Winner, World Drum Corps Champions 1987, 2007, World Bass Section Champions 2007 Albums Live in Ireland, Flame of Wrath, Live in Scotland, Live in Canada - The Megantic Outlaw Concert, The Immigrant's Suite Similar Field Marshal Montgom, World Pipe Band Championships, Shotts and Dykehead Caledoni, St Laurence O'Toole P, ScottishPower Pipe Band | ||
The 78th fraser highlanders pipe band
The 78th Fraser Highlanders Pipe Band, is a pipe band from Campbellville, Ontario, Canada.
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78th fraser highlanders pipe band at the 2013 alma highland festival
History
The band was formed in 1982 with support from a 78th Fraser Highlanders re-enactment group, but the band was allowed to keep the name after support from the group ceased.
The 78th Frasers became the first non-Scottish band to win the World Pipe Band Championships, in the summer of 1987, breaking Strathclyde Police Pipe Band's (now Greater Glasgow Police Scotland Pipe Band) run of six consecutive wins.
Founding pipe major Bill Livingstone stepped down from the role in 2010 after 29 years.
The band is currently led by Pipe major Doug MacRae and drum sergeant Drew Duthart. The band has won both the North American Pipe Band Championships (held in Maxville, Ontario) and the Canadian Pipe Band Championships (held in Cambridge, Ontario) a total of twelve times each. The Frasers travel to Scotland each summer to compete at the World's, and have finished in the prize list eleven times.
The band wears the 78th Fraser Highlanders Pipe Band tartan, designed for the band in 1998.
Pipe Majors
Leading Drummers
Discography
Songs
Journey to SkyeLive in Scotland · 1994
The Megantic OutlawLive in Canada - The Megantic Outlaw Concert · 1992
J Reid Maxwell - Drum Solo Set1987