Office of the Seanchaidh

Contact us if you have questions, stories, or suggestions: seanchaidh@wuspba.org

Calling All Stories, Histories, and Interviews

We all started somewhere ... by PM Janice Richey. If you were raised in Scotland, there’s a chance bagpiping or drumming was a part of your education, but for most people in the states, our road to pipe bands or solos was more circuitous - and likely more interesting. Even once you got your taste for ‘the skirl of the pipes’ or the heart-pounding sound of the ‘most difficult drumming in the world’, the path to mastery was likely largely dependent on who was instructing you. 

History

• History of the Association

  • A History of the Alliance of North American Pipe Band Associations 

  • Ozzie Reid Origins of Pacific Coast PBA and bio

  • Short History of the 6th Army Pipe Band and its Influences on the WUSPBA
• Santa Rosa games
  • Santa Rosa, CA History of the Games 2020 (from the Cali Club website, permission to use given by John Biggar)
  • Memories of Santa Rosa. Susan Thornton: Introduction to “Blood Alley” and Jim Fitzrandolph: A Bathtub Fulls of Beer and a Congo Line
  • Bob Mason Memories of Santa Rosa

Stories

• Instructors
  • Archie Cairns Introduced Piobaireachd to the Intermountain Branch by Susan M. Thornton
  • We all started somewhere ... by PM Janice Richey
• Drum Majors
  • A Short History of Drum Majoring Associations in the Western U.S
  • Announcement of NASDMA 1990
  • Announcement of PCASDM
• World War II
  • Robert Shlaer: The Pipes at the Liberation of Bergan-Belsen Concentration Camp (His Own Words)