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All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.” - Abraham Lincoln Today we are celebrating Mother’s Day. It’s a time we all take...
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Wake and District
- May 9, 2019
- 1 min
Wherever you go.
It is with a heavy heart we bid a fond farewell to piper Alex Lumsden, who is graduating from North Carolina State University and...
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Wake and District
- May 2, 2019
- 2 min
Humble and Kind.
Sharing the note below from our Drum Major, Jason Lane who was officially promoted to Captain of the Raleigh Fire Department during a...
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Wake and District
- Apr 28, 2019
- 2 min
Hard work.
Hard work. Members of Wake and District preach a lot about hard work. Always posting about it and writing about. A lot of people work...
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Wake and District
- Apr 19, 2019
- 4 min
Because. Pipe Band.
Being in a pipe band is weird. Those of us playing the bagpipes have elected to play, arguably, the world’s most cantankerous...
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Wake and District
- Apr 15, 2019
- 2 min
The details.
"To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail.” –Giorgio Armani There is something...
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Wake and District
- Apr 5, 2019
- 2 min
A noble pursuit.
The accolades continue to role in for Alan Armstrong’s book A Noble Pursuit: The Life, Letters and Works of Pipe Major John Grant. Dr....
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Wake and District
- Mar 28, 2019
- 2 min
It’s worth it.
7 years ago I took this photo of Dalton Marshall in the Laurinburg Harris Teeter. It was the first year we became friends and started...
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Wake and District
- Mar 25, 2019
- 3 min
Coming up short.
“Always look at other musicians as inspiration. Never as competition.” — These words got us to thinking… We all do it or have done it at...
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Wake and District
- Mar 19, 2019
- 2 min
Marching on.
For all of those parades we hate. Those times when tuning isn't so great. Somehow we keep marching on. For those tunes we felt like we...
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Wake and District
- Mar 10, 2019
- 2 min
Being lucky.
Are you a lucky or unlucky person? Or, to put it more precisely, are you prepared to be lucky... Given that next Sunday is St. Patrick’s...
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Wake and District
- Feb 26, 2019
- 2 min
Leading others is a privilege.
Sharing from the NCDPS: The State Highway Patrol honored 55 sworn and 11 civilian members yesterday during a promotional ceremony held...
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Wake and District
- Feb 20, 2019
- 2 min
#PipeBandProblems
You may not have caused this problem yourself, but it is your job to do something about it, especially when you hold any kind of a...
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Wake and District
- Feb 14, 2019
- 1 min
Music = Culture
“What we found is that people who have worked together for 10 or 15 years can learn new things about their coworkers through music,...
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Wake and District
- Feb 14, 2019
- 1 min
We LOVE this band.
St. Valentine’s Day began as a liturgical celebration of one or more early Christian saints named Valentinus. Several martyrdom stories...
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Wake and District
- Feb 13, 2019
- 2 min
The Multiplier Effect.
If you haven’t heard of The Piano Guys before then let us just tell you that you are seriously missing out. These guys are a perfect...
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Wake and District
- Feb 8, 2019
- 2 min
Nobody wounds us with impunity.
Sharing from the White House Historical Association — On November 13, 1963, the Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment), a British Army...
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Wake and District
- Feb 5, 2019
- 1 min
Stand out.
Too much time and energy in life gets spent trying to fit in…trying to be seen as “normal”. I personally think that normal is pretty...
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Wake and District
- Feb 4, 2019
- 1 min
Reflections.
On Monday, February 4, 2019 -- the sound of the bagpipes filled the air at the Raleigh Police Memorial in honor of a Raleigh Police...
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Wake and District
- Jan 29, 2019
- 5 min
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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