78th Fraser Highlanders Pipe Band

Infobox Pipe band
name = The Scottish Lion 78th Fraser Highlanders Pipe Band


established =
location = Toronto, Ontario
grade = 1
major = Bill Livingstone
sergeant = Drew Duthart
tartan = Fraser
sponsor = Scottish Lion Import Shop
honours = Winner, World Pipe Band Championships: 1987. Winner, World Drum Corps/Bass Section 2007
website = [http://www.scottishlion78thfrasers.com/ SL78th Website] |The Scottish Lion 78th Fraser Highlanders Pipe Band, is a pipe band from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Sponsored by the Scottish Lion Import Shop, the 78th Frasers became the first non-Scottish band to win the World Pipe Band Championships, in the summer of 1987. In 2007, the Drum Corps led by Drew Duthart captured the Best Drum Corps Prize and the Best Bass Section award at the World Pipe Band Championships at Glasgow Green in Scotland. [ [http://www.pipesdrums.com/Contents.aspx?M=Articles&AT=Results&AID=14213 pipes|drums: 2007 World Championships Results] ]

Under the direction of Pipe Major Bill Livingstone, the band is still active in the competitive pipe band arena to this day. The band has both won the North American Pipe Band Championships (held in Maxville, Ontario) and the Canadian Pipe Band Championships (held in Cambridge, Ontario) a total of twelve times each. The Frasers travel to Scotland each summer to compete at the World's, and have finished in the prize list eleven times.

In addition to their competitive activities, the band has always had a mandate and goal to expand the pipe band idiom and to introduce new musical concepts into the genre through their recordings and concerts. Their recording "Live In Ireland" (1987) is regarded by some as the quintessential modern pipe band recording.

Their recordings include:

* "Live In Ireland" (1987)
* "The Immigrant's Suite" (1989)
* "Live in Canada - The Megantic Outlaw Concert" (1991)
* "Live in Scotland" (1993)
* "Flame of Wrath" (1998)
* "Cascade" (2003)

External links

* [http://www.78thfrasers.net/ Official site]
* [http://www.scottishlion.com/ Official Sponsors site]

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