27/12/2025
SPBASA is happy to announce that Ronald MacKenzie has joined the Executive Committee as Music Officer.
Ronald started Highland Dancing in as a Sapito in 1979. He began drumming in the band in 1986, and switched to piping in 1990, soon rising through the ranks. He became the band's Pipe Major from 1998 to 2003, and again from 2023 to the present, having been Pipe Sergeant before and in between.
In 2024 he competed in the World Pipe Band Championships with the Pan-European Cross Borders Pipe Band, under Pipe Major Björn Heuckeroth, finishing in 3rd place in Grade 3B.
Ronald has also competed as a soloist in many South American competitions, winning both the Shamrock Cup (Montevideo, Uruguay) and the SAPA Cup (Buenos Aires, Argentina),on separate occasions, as well as multiple top placings in the south American Remote Solo Competitions. In 2025 he won the overall Grade 3 CLASP, organized by the National Piping Centre (Glasgow, Scotland).
