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Wake and District
Jan 29, 20195 min read
Learn.
A bagpipe band is not a finished product. Every well built band started in the form of a definite purpose plus a definite plan in the...
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Wake and District
Jan 28, 20197 min read
You're Right.
It is impossible to understate the importance of leadership in any human endeavor. Proverbs says: “Where there is no vision, the people...
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Wake and District
Jan 27, 20195 min read
-Attitude+
When I was a teenager I was the primary target of an extremely persistent bully at my high school. One day I came home in tears and...
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Wake and District
Jan 22, 20193 min read
Differences.
Our members come from all walks of life and bring an indeterminate amount of experience with them. We are Seabees, police officers,...
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Wake and District
Jan 15, 20191 min read
Attitudes.
Most bands like to measure themselves by their strongest, most talented people. However, the strength of the band is always impacted by...
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Wake and District
Jan 12, 20195 min read
Difficult Instruments.
Victor Hugo said -- "Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent." Music gives a soul to the...
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Wake and District
Jan 8, 20194 min read
True to the line.
On Monday, January 7, 2019 the Wake and District Public Safety Pipes and Drums held our annual general meeting to review and plan for...
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Wake and District
Dec 31, 20184 min read
What we are about.
We often make the assumption, what is interesting to us is therefore interesting to others. If you have read one of these year end...
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Wake and District
Dec 25, 20182 min read
Said the turtle to the bagpipe...
The Bagpipe Who Didn’t Say No Poem by Shel Silverstein It was nine o'clock at midnight at a quarter after three When a turtle met a...
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Wake and District
Dec 23, 20181 min read
The space we share.
Theodore Roosevelt said – “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” May we add — “with those around you“. Wake and...
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Wake and District
Dec 10, 20182 min read
Perception.
I'm always looking out for a unique presentation of musical performance and analysis. Last week I made a brief post talking about ear...
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Wake and District
Dec 7, 20183 min read
Forward.
On Wednesday, 05 December 2018 the sound of the bagpipes filled the air at the Raleigh Police Memorial in honor of 2 Raleigh Police...
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Wake and District
Dec 7, 20182 min read
It matters.
Ear training is something that we have been working on as a band more than you are probably aware. Whenever we sing something together,...
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Wake and District
Dec 5, 20182 min read
RFD 43.
The Wake & District Public Safety Pipe Band is honored to be participating in the graduation ceremony for the Raleigh Fire Department’s...
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Wake and District
Nov 26, 20181 min read
Fortunate.
Very few people have everything they want. True, some may have a lot more than others, but the vast majority of us have hopes that have...
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Wake and District
Nov 22, 20182 min read
Words.
Today we celebrate Thanksgiving. This weekend we remember, President John F. Kennedy, who was laid to rest with a State funeral and full...
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Wake and District
Nov 22, 20181 min read
True to the line.
In 1825, George Washington Doane, Bishop of New Jersey, wrote a poem entitled What Is That, Mother?, which included this verse: What is...
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Wake and District
Nov 21, 20181 min read
Smile.
Did you know Amazon donates 0.5% of the price of your eligible AmazonSmile purchases to the charitable organization of your choice...
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Wake and District
Nov 9, 20184 min read
Effort.
“It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done...
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Wake and District
Oct 29, 20186 min read
Upright Zeal.
Members of Wake and District are hitting the road this weekend to Mt. Pleasant, SC for the 47th Annual Charleston Scottish Games being...
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