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Welcome to the website for North Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service Pipe Band.  The ethos of the band is to provide both an enjoyable pastime to it's members and to also offer teaching to anyone who has the enthusiasm and aptitude to learn.  We see these as key elements of band membership to ensure the band continues to go from strength to strength.

Based in Thirsk, North Yorkshire in the Fire Station, the band travels right across the County of North Yorkshire and beyond performing at public engagements and competitions.  The band currently competes in Grade 4 and is a member of the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association.

We're always on the look out for players and membership is FREE.  If you would like to see what the band could offer you, why not pop down to a practice and see for yourself.

 

The band meets every Tuesday from 6.00pm – 9.30pm at Thirsk Fire Station and welcomes players of all ages and abilities. The first hour is devoted to learners. Practice proper starts at 7.00pm.  The fire station is located on Newsham Road. If you find Tesco's, look across the road from Tesco's car park towards Tesco's petrol station and you will see the Fire Station about 200m to the left. If in doubt, ask a local (they honestly don't bite).

 

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Although the band usually meets every week, it is worthwhile to check our diary just in case as we tend to have a couple of weeks off over the Christmas period.

The band spends quite a bit of its time fundraising so that members can receive the best quality equipment. The only things we don't provide are shirts, underwear and shoes. 
 

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Competition Success 2012

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The band again travelled North to compete in the RSPBA North East England Branch competitons on Sunday 4th March 2012.  Due to the inclement weather earlier in the year, the solo piping event was rescheduled to be held at the same time which made for a very long day.

 

In the practice chanter competition, the band continued it's tradition by providing the winner yet again.  Michael Whitehead joined the band just over a year ago and beat all competitiors with a rendition of Correcholies Welcome.  Well Done!

Graham Hall, our Pipe Sergeant came second in the veterans competition and Diane Walsh, also a newcomer to the band gave a good account of herself in her first solo march competition.  Both Diane and Graham played The Atholl and Breadalbane Gathering.
 
Our trios, of which there were three were placed in the middle of the pack of 13 entries, falling just short of the prize list on this occasion.