Pipe Sgt Danny Vaughn and David Corbett traveled to Lyon College in Batesville, AR for the annual summer solo competition.  With 15 medals up for grabs in 5 events, the duo brought back 9.

PS Vaughn returned with 4 first place's and one second place. This resulted in him tying for overall piper of the day in the Grade 4 Senior division.

Corbett recieved a 2nd, three 3rds and a fourth place.

The pair, along with the rest of the band will be in craighead Forrest on the 4th playing, picnicing and recruiting. Corbett will be next up in competition at the annual Grandfather Mtn games in Linville, NC on July 12th.

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isa Bable of Southaven is seen here showing off the newly earned bag cover, installed on her bagpipes, complete with the band identification "NEAC" on the back.  The Pipe Major awards the cover to pipers who have successfully memorized and performed the core band tunes.  These include "The Gordon Highlanders Quickmarch" which is the band's standard tune for marching in, the parade set of 3 tunes, and the band march-out tune, "Cullen Bay".

Earning the bag cover is one of several milestones a piper must achieve, in the progression from beginning student, to joining the performing circle, and eventually the competition band which will travel around the region going up against long established bands in several states.

The Northeast Arkansas Caledonian Pipes and Drums will be present at the July 4th "Fourth in the Forest" celebration in Jonesboro and would love to meet anyone of any age interested in learning to play, or just helping support the growing organization.  They meet most Sunday's from 2-4pm at the First Presb. Church in Jonesboro, AR. www.neacaledonians.com for more information.

Here is a site I found that goes over some basic music theory.

While it is geared towards "normal" or "concert" music, there is still much here of benefit to us.

http://www.musictheory.net/index.html

If you have decent internet access, there is a one hour long, weekly "radio" show on the BBC Scotland website:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/radioscotland/programmes/pipeline/

It is available to listen to, any day, any hour, but you do have to listen to it live on the net, no downloading.

It's dedicated solely to piping (hence the name.. PIPEline).  You will hear some of the worlds best solo & bands playing, as well as current news and announcements from the world of piping.

Give it a listen..

We will be hosting an all day Friends and Family picnic, July 4th at Craighead Forrest in Jonesboro.

This is the day of the annual Fourth in the Forrest event, held by KFIN FM.

I've traded emails with someone at KFIN, and we may have a portion of a pavilion reserved for us. The location is near what used to be the swimming area. (red arrow is the entrance, red box the location of the pavilion)




It will be PotLuck, meaning anyone and everyone is invited; friends, family, people interested in all things related to bagpipes, marching percussion, scottish and celtic.  Just please bring something for the table.

The band will do at least 2 full performances for those present.

Please remember, we're a family friendly organization, conduct yourself accordingly. (i.e. no alcohol etc)

David.

[if you have a popup tent, tables etc, let me know, and be prepared to bring them, just in case we don't get a pavilion]

Big belated kudo's to Derek Reed, of Jonesboro.

Derek, a student at Ridgefield Christian School, who's been studying with Danny Vaughn and the NEAC Pipes and Drums, received his brand new Gibson bagipes a couple of weeks ago, and is now in the process of learning how to play and control the wiley Scottish beast!

We hope he will progress very rapidly and be able to join the band when we perform for friends and family on July 4th, at a picnic during the Forth in the Forrest.

WELL DONE Derek!  now.. back to work!

Piping Grade IV Sr  (709 pipers)
All Piping Events

Rank	Name (Association ID)	Branch	Total Points	Total Competitions
1	Lawrence Selden (80996)	Southwest	167	25
2	Alfred Barrow (80796)	Southwest	94	12
3	Mack Davis (80030)	Southwest	80	14
4	Elizabeth C. Morgan (80524)	Southern	78	8
5	Chris Benton (80880)	Mid-Atlantic	73	10
6	Danny Vaughn (81386)	Southwest	69	11
7	David Madock (81751)	Mid-Atlantic	63	6
8	Andrew J Douglas (81558)	Ohio Valley	60	6
9	David McCrabb (80998)	Mid-Atlantic	59	6
10	George Low (80949)	Southwest	58	18
11	Adriel Yaryan (80752)	Southern	56	9
12	David Corbett (81031)	Southwest	52	10

Snare Gr 4 (John Murray Juvenile)  (79 snare drummers)

Rank	Name (Association ID)	Branch	Total Points	Total Competitions
1	Montana Cameron (81187)	Southern	20	5
2	Aaron Bailie (80413F)	Ohio Valley	16	3
3	Joseph Zappa (81140F)	Southern	13	3
4	Quinn McCormack (80608)	Northeast	12	2
5	Peter Regan (80120F)	Ohio Valley	10	3
6	Zachary Talotta (80460)	Northeast	8	2
6	Lex Russell (81313)	Southern	8	2
8	Frankie Boehm (81850F)	Southwest	7	2
8	Nader Girgawy (82030)	Southwest	7	1
8	Sophia McConnell (80848F)	Mid-Atlantic	7	2
8	Will Boehm (81852F)	Southwest	7	2
8	Ian Bishop (81846)	Northeast	7	1
13	Kevin Yang (82021)	Southwest	6	1
13	Daniel Pisowloski (80733)	Northeast	6	2
13	Heather Gilbert (81867)	Northeast	6	1
13	Nyssa Cave (80625F)	Southern	6	1
17	Mitch Lagrasta (82031)	Southwest	5	1
17	Chris Laferriere (81773)	Northeast	5	1
17	Brian Holman (81463F)	Southwest	5	3
20	Dannie Vaughn (81712)	Southwest	4	2
20	Benjamin Heidrich (80014)	Southern	4	1

Ok, just found out these were posted, for good or bad here they are:

6/8 March (Donald McLean of Lewis, 2nd place)

Slow Air (Carles Wi' The Breeks, 2nd place)

Strathspey / Reel (Campbelton Kiltie Ball / Farewell to Ireland, 2nd place)

Members of the Jonesboro Arkansas based Northeast Arkansas Caledonian Pipes and Drums continue to win prizes in solo competition around the region.  This last weekend, 4 members traveled to Glasgow, KY for the annual Highland games and competitions held just outside Bowling Green. Among the prizes were a 4th place on the highland snare for 11 year old Danny Vaughn Jr of Hoxie, A first place gold medal, and 5th place for his father Danny Vaughn Sr on pipes and a first place gold and 3rd place Bronze for David Corbett of Alicia and Marion on pipes.  Robert Gill, a public school teacher from Kennett also attended his 3rd solo competition and showing well. These results bring the total top 5 placings by members in contest to 7 just the last 2 weeks. 

The band is now working on a program which they hope to perform 2 or more times for friends and family at a picnic during the Fourth in the Forrest celebration at Craighead Forrest.  The band meets weekly at the First Presb. Church in Jonesboro, from 2-4pm and is always looking for new students and musicians. For more information see www.neacaledonians.com or call 870-886-6583.

The weekend got started down in Shreveport, LA with David winning 3 silver and 1 fifth place finish in competition.



Members then supported various charitable functions and Memorial Day events by playing in Forrest City (Fallen Firefighters Memorial Bike Rally), Walnut Ridge, Truman and Jonesboro at the annual Memorial Day events.

 (Danny Sr & Danny Jr)

Band practice was held on Sunday as usual. Drummers showed off the new score for Cullen Bay authored by our own Scott Bable.  And the pipers and one one snare rehearsed what will be our standard "performace set":

March In (Gordon's Quickmarch)
Solo or Duet
Parade Set
Solo or Duet
Amazing Grace
March out (Cullen Bay)

More will be added as we get more tunes & sets down, and as situations warrent.

Lastly.. Mr Vaughn successfully earned his new NEAC pipe bag cover. Looks Good Danny!

Danny Sr, Danny Jr, Robert and myself will be traveling to Glasgow, KY for competition this weekend. Wish us luck and safe travel.

David.