78th Fraser Highlanders Pipe Band
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 78th Fraser Highlanders Pipe Band | |
| Competition Grade: | 1 |
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| Location: | Toronto, Ontario |
| Pipe Major: | Bill Livingstone |
| Drum Sergeant: | Drew Duthart |
| Tartan: | Fraser |
| Notable Placings: | Winner, World Pipe Band Championships: 1987 |
| The 78th Fraser Highlanders are a pipe band from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Sponsored by the regiment of the same name, the Frasers became the first non-Scottish band to win the World Pipe Band Championships, in the summer of 1987. Under the direction of Pipe Major Bill Livingstone, the band is still active in the competitive pipe band arena to this day. The band has both won 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. In addition to their competitive activities, the band has always had a mandate and goal to expand the pipe band idiom and to introduce new musical concepts into the genre, through their recordings and concerts. Their recordings include:
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