Pipe Bands Victoria - PBV

24/05/2026

This event in July and the Victorian achievements it celebrates are special. Member bands are encouraged to have their female pipers and drummers to register interest! Visit https://ausladies.link/ and for enquiries email [email protected] - act quickly please.

"The Australian Ladies" by Willie Fergusson is one of the most popular 2/4 marches in the piping repertory, and the inspiration for the great tune will be suitably commemorated with a world record attempt in July in Melbourne. The piece was named for the Australian Ladies Pipe Band's 1925-27 worl

09/05/2026

Congratulations to Steven and Hamish on their success at the RSPBA - The Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association Oceania Solo Drumming Championship and World Solos qualifier.

Congratulations to our drummers Steven and Hamish for their first and second placings in the Oceania Solo Drumming Championships!

Both results secure automatic qualification for the World Solo Drumming Championships semi-finals in Scotland this October.

24/04/2026

And so it begins. The 2026 ANZAC day parade in Melbourne. Good luck to all our bands contributing to this day of remembering those who served. All the best to bands everywhere playing today and a shout out to all those band members who served.

12/04/2026

Congratulations to Sgt Benjamin Sean Casey (3rd from the left) on placing equal 2nd in the Adult Drum Major Australian Championship. Not stranger to this event and many times a previous winner, it's great to see Banjamin continuing to compete. As the newly confirmed Vic Principal of Drill & Dress in Victoria, he's a great role model!

11/04/2026

Congratulations to Scotch College #2 and City Of Melbourne Highland Pipe Band #2 as new Australian Champions, finding success in Perth, WA today. Scotch took out Novice B and Grade 4B, and Melbourne, Grade.4A.

Well done to Scotch #1 placing 2nd in Nov A and to Haileybury #1 and #2 being the other Victorian bans competing.

The Provisional Master Sheet of Results for today’s Championships is now available.

Please note all results are provisional, pending the protest period following distribution of results.

Bands can expect their detailed feedback later today.

A huge thank you to all bands, adjudicators, volunteers and supporters, an outstanding day of competition and performance.

The Master Sheet: https://pipebandsaustralia.com.au/APBC26Results

01/04/2026

The PBV season is now run and done. A sincere things to contest promoters - Golden City Pipe Band Bendigo, Daylesford Highland Gathering, Ballarat Grammar, Haileybury and the Melbourne Highland Games & Celtic Festivalal.

Thanks to all the many volunteers, to the adjudicators, contest supervisors, scorers, and of course competing bands and supporters.

Next up for PBV, ANZAC Day and the Melbourne Tartan Festival (including a significant surprise celebration). Also in October we will see the return of the Geelong Highland Gathering in Bannockburn!

01/04/2026

PBV adjudicators have been busy this season ensuring the future of both ours and other panels in Australia. Pictured here are the four who undertook trials at the Victorian Championships. Tony Ma (from Hong Kong - piping), Liam Nicolson (resident in Scotland - piping), Josh Chandler (Vic - piping) and William Sincock (NSW - piping).

Also doing trials this season Dave Telford (Vic - ensemble).

Of note, this season, we saw Matt Fraser do his first run as a qualified piping adjudicator and Dougal McConnell Vic/Tas a qualified ensemble adjudicator.

Congratulations and well done to all!

01/04/2026

In what is hoped will become a regular pre-Vic Champs activity, adjudicators (local, trial, and interstate) met on Saturday for a workshop. Led by Paul Turner (RSPBA and Victorian Drumming and Ensemble Panels) included updates, discussion and listening activities, all directed towards more professional and consistent adjudication here. Thanks to Victorian Music Vice Principals Dave Telford for organising with Andrew Womersley and Harold Gillespie.

01/04/2026

The Massed Bands of the 2026 Victorian Pipe Band Championships at the Melbourne Highland Gathering and Melbourne Highland Games & Celtic Festival. Managed the right wheel en masse - wee done DM Benjamin Sean Casey.

01/04/2026

It's been gratifying that in the 4 days from the Victorian Championships in 2026 we're just shy of 60,000 views of the content - especially videos! An amazing level of interest and thank you.

To celebrate things a little more, below are the winning bands marching past and the massed ands from the Vic's. Congratulations to Scotch College 1 & 2 (Nov B, A and Gr 4B), City of Melbourne Highland 2 (Gr 4A), Old Scotch 1 (Gr 3), City of Melbourne Highland 1 (Gr 2) and Hawthorn (Gr 1).