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The Simon Fraser University Pipe Band from Vancouver, Canada have been crowned World Pipe Band Champions at Glasgow Green this afternoon in front of an audience of more than 40,000 pipe fans.
Live streaming of the World Pipe Band Championships will be available across the world in a move by BBC Scotland to mark the Year of Homecoming...
2nd – 3rd May 2009 – Murrayfield Magic
Murrayfield Magic
The Homecoming Scotland Road To The Worlds kicked off last weekend as tens of thousands of Rugby League supporters from the north of England descended upon Edinburgh to watch a full card of Super League fixtures at Murrayfield Magic.
The fans were welcomed to the capital by the Newtongrange Pipe Band who piped along the route from Haymarket into the Stadium while each rugby team was piped into the stadium by the Stockbridge Pipe Band.
On May 30th the Scottish Power Pipe Band will play to football supporters including a high percentage of ex pats flooding into Hampden Stadium to watch their teams contest the Homecoming Scotland Cup Final.