Red Hackle Pipe Band

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Red Hackle Pipe Band
Establishedmid 1940s
Disbandedlate 1980s
Location Glasgow
Grade 1 (former)
Tartan Royal Stewart (as Red Hackle), Ancient Campbell of Cawdor (as Clan Campbell, Britoil)
SponsorHepburn & Ross Ltd.

Red Hackle Pipe & Drums, sometimes known as the Hackle, was a grade 1 pipe band based in Glasgow, Scotland.

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History

The Red Hackle Pipes & Drums was formed at the end of World War II by a group of Black Watch ex-servicemen in the Govan area of Glasgow, Scotland. In the early 1950s, the band began a long relationship with Hepburn & Ross Distillers who marketed a brand of whisky known as Red Hackle. Charles A. Hepburn, himself an ex-Black Watch officer, was a keen supporter of the band, as well as the College of Piping. With Mr. Hepburn's support, the band would soon move their practice facility to Otago Street, directly across from the College. [1] [2] [3]

The Red Hackle, under pipe major Angus McLeod and leading drummer Alex Ross, finished 2nd in the World Championships in 1954, winning the World drum corps title in 1954 and 1955. [4] John Weatherston took over as pipe major in 1963, having led the 277 Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Pipe Band to victory at the Worlds the previous year. [5] [6]

Although "The Hackle" never won a World Pipe Band Championship, the band is regarded as one of the finest bands of its era. The band won every Major Championship except the Worlds, and would finish 2nd at the World Championships a total of 3 times. At the 1968 World Championships at Perth, Scotland, the band ended up in a 3 way tie for 1st place on points, finishing 3rd overall on ensemble preference. 1972 saw the band named RSPBA Champion of Champions. The following year, 1973, the Hackle won the prestigious 25 band Inter-Continental Pipe Band Championships at the Canadian National Exhibition (CNE) at Toronto, Canada. [7]

In later years, due to change of sponsorship, the band would become known as the Clan Campbell Pipe Band (changing from its Royal Stewart tartan to Ancient Campbell of Cawdor), then Britoil Pipe Band. The organization disbanded in the late 1980s. [7]

Notable pipers Andrew Wright, Norman Gillies, Tom Anderson, Bob Hardie, Iain MacFadyen, Neil Dickie and Roddy MacLeod are all former members of the band.

There are extant pipe bands in Belgium, Cleveland, Wellington and Fairbanks that are also called Red Hackle. [8] [9] [10] [11]

Pipe Majors

Leading Drummers

Discography

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  2. ↑ "Loss of Experienced Judges" (PDF). The Pipe Band Magazine: 14–18. October 2014.
  3. ↑ "Ghost Signs of Glasgow, The Fading Works of the Signwriter". glasgowpunter.blogspot.ca. Retrieved 20 August 2016.
  4. ↑ Young, Wilson; Chatto, Allan (2000). One Hundred Years of Pipe Band Drumming. Wilson Young Publishing. ISBN   9780953794300.
  5. ↑ "John Weatherston MBE, BEM, 1917-2003". pipesdrums.com. 31 March 2003. Retrieved 20 August 2016.
  6. ↑ "History - R.G.Hardie". rghardie.com. Retrieved 20 August 2016.
  7. 1 2 Piper & Drummer Magazine August 1995
  8. ↑ red hackle. "Red Hackle Pipe Band and Highland Dancers (Belgium) VZW". redhackle.be. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
  9. ↑ "Royal New Zealand Pipe Bands - New Zealand Bands". nzpipebands.org.nz. Archived from the original on 13 January 2015. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
  10. ↑ "Red Hackle - About". redhacklepd.com. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
  11. ↑ "Fairbanks Red Hackle Pipe Band::ABOUT US::History". fairbanksredhacklepipeband.org. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
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