Old Colony Highlanders Pipe Band

Old Colony Highlanders Pipe Band (OCH) recently traveled to Loon Mountain in Lincoln, New Hampshire to compete in the New England Championships pipe band competition. Old Colony Highlanders came in second place overall in the championships in a field of fifteen bands. This was no small feat considering that this is the band’s first year of competing.

Old Colony Highlanders, which practices locally in Lakeville, was founded just two years ago by a Middleboro family of experienced bagpipers and drummers, and a group of their students. OCH spent the first year honing their skills and marching in local parades and performing in local events like the season opener for the New England Revolution.

Over the course of 2018, the band continued to perform in local events and also entered the regional competition arena with a total of five competitions that were sanctioned by the Eastern United States Pipe Band Association. In the band’s first competition in June at the Rhode Island Scottish Festival, Old Colony Highlanders came in first place against eight other bands. Competitions followed in New York, Western Massachusetts, and finally at Loon Mountain this past week end.

The New Hampshire Highland Games was the band’s final competition of the year, resulting in a year end compilation of second place overall in the eastern United States among one hundred registered bands – an impressive accomplishment for any band – let alone one in their first year of competing.

On October 11, the band will be conducting an Open House at the Lakeville United Church of Christ at 7:30 pm, free of charge, in order to introduce the band to the community and to meet anyone who may be interested in joining the band and taking lessons on the drums or bagpipes. The band offers lessons locally.

Members will perform briefly and will be available after to meet with people and show how the instruments are played. Feel free to look the band up on Facebook or www.OldColonyhighlanders.org or call Pipe Major Diane Wood-Bielski at 508-947-4383 for more information.

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