Rehau Beer Festival
July 2025
We joined Northampton Pipes & Drums for a fun filled weekend in Rehau Bavaria - Lots of beer was involved!
Summer 2025 - 28 July
Watton Family Day
St Neots Armed Forces Weekend 15/16 June-25
We have attended this event for many years with our History Revisited Group and this year, we were there again at our living history camp. We were dressed in the uniforms of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry and the Scottish Horse in World War 1
May 8 2025 VE 80 London Fabulous day and great honour to pipe the Lantern of Peace onboard the Havengore (Churchills coffin boat) on the Thames for VE80 Day.
VE 80 (8 May 2025) comes to Abbotsley !
Sarah played for the village VE 80 Day Celebrations, including the tune specially composed, by PM Stuart Liddle, for the event called ''Celebratum''
EAPB joined other artists for the 2025 Baldock Folk Festival, photo is outside the Cock Public House on the High Street !
Very proud to play *Celebratum as part of the 20 day countdown for VE80 on 8t May 2025.
Venues:
Carolyn - Elveden Memorial
Phil - Desert Rats Memorial
Carolyn - St Mary's Memorial Eaton Socon
Phil - St Mary's St Neots
*Celebratum written by PM Stuart Liddle in honour of VE 80
We were delighted to join the Somme Battlefield Pipe Band & the 48th Highlanders of Holland Pipe & Drums for a fabulous weekend. Saturday we joined a reenactment in Wilp and Sunday Holten Canadian War Cemetery to commemorate 80 years from liberation of Holland
Burns 2025
Three great Burns evenings (Three Horeshoes, Abbotsley and Baldock Round Table)
September-24
Performance at the camp, in Noyelle-Sous- Lens and Givenchy-en-Gohelle
Souchez la renaissance 2024
Somme Battlefield Pipe Band
48th Highlanders of Holland Pipes & Drums & Wintringham Pipers
July-24
With the Somme Battlefield Pipe Band for the ceremonies of the 108th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme
(Lochnagar Crater; Beaumont- Hamel; Longueval)
Burns Night 2024
Six fabulous Burns nights, six Haggis dinners & lots of fun, playing & singing!
“Slàinte Mhath”
November -23
another wedding - this time in Upham Hampshire. The weather was good, no rain and the bride and groom looked fantastic.
We love a wedding and this one in Hallow (Worcestershire) was just fabulous. October 2023
Franleu (France) June 25 2023 with The Battle of The Somme Pipe Band
(it was 30 degrees C !)
The village of Franleu was the scene of a very violent and heroic battle in the second World War.
The commemoration honored the 51st Highland Division and the people of Franleu village who lost their lives
Franleu is a commune in the Somme Department and 17kms from Abbeville
Carolyn & Phil joined The Commander of 51st Infantry Brigade and HQ Scotland in Saint Valery-en-Caux to take part in commemorations marking the 82nd anniversary of the battle in northern France. We played in St Valery en Caux and Veules-Les-Roses
Battle of St Valery en Caux Commemorated
Ceremonies also took place at Veules-les-Roses and many other small towns in the area as local people spared no effort in showing their gratitude and remembrance.
Burns Night (2023)
We enjoyed 2 great evenings with Baldock Rotary club (25th) & Edlesborough Community (28th)
We do love a Burns do!
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Guesting with the Red Hot Chilli Pipers
Peterborough UK
May-22
A Fitting Farewell
April-22
''Think of me as one at rest,
for me you should not weep
I have no pain no troubled thoughts
for I am just asleep''
(Anon)
Phil & Sarah at Wellingborough Crematorium
New Years Eve (2021)
Great evening piping in the New Year at the Celtic supporters Club Luton.
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Remembrance Day
''At the going down of the sun and in the morning, We will remember them'' (Robert Laurence Binyon)
Helping out Locally!
Bagpipes can add so much to an occasion, the local WI needed some promotion for the anniversary of the first lock down and we were happy to assist!
Burns Night
We love Burns night - every year we try to make Burns night a night to remember. This year (2019) we included the Address to a Haggis!
''Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face,
Great chieftain o the puddin'-race!
Aboon them a' ye tak your place,
Painch, tripe, or thairm:
Weel are ye wordy o' a grace
As lang's my arm'' (Robert Burns)
