{"id":7432,"date":"2016-08-15T08:45:33","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T07:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/?p=7432"},"modified":"2016-08-16T12:49:47","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T11:49:47","slug":"field-marshal-montgomery-2016-world-pipe-band-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/field-marshal-montgomery-2016-world-pipe-band-champions\/","title":{"rendered":"Field Marshal Montgomery: 2016 World Pipe Band Champions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Field Marshal Montgomery gained the 2016 World Pipe Band Championship at Glasgow Green, the eleventh in the band\u2019s storied history, in variable but mainly dry conditions rising to about 17 degrees, placing ahead of the 11 other Grade 1 bands that made the final round after a full day of competition on Friday. Each band competed in a march, strathspey &amp; reel event first, then a medley in the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p><i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pipesdrums.com\/article\/xxxx-2016-world-champions\/\">Read more at Pipes | Drums website<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>A fourth in piping and a fifth in drumming \u2013 each uncharacteristic of the band\u2019s results in 2016 \u2013 essentially cost Inveraray &amp; District the title, losing to Field Marshal Montgomery by a single point. Inveraray had been the choice of many in the pipe band world to win the event. Inveraray was later announced the winner of the RSPBA\u2019s Champion of Champions band and drumming prizes for most aggregate points at the association\u2019s five major championships.<\/p>\n<p>The Grade 1 medley marked the final competition for drummer Jim Kilpatrick, who concluded a career of more than 50 years in which he amassed more prizes by far than any drummer in pipe band history. The RSPBA did not acknowledge Kilpatrick\u2019s contribution in any way, but his band, the Spirit of Scotland, paid homage to him by marching on as the final band in the hours-long march past with Kilpatrick and his drum section at the front of the group.<\/p>\n<p>Johnstone won the Grade 2 event for the second year in a row, virtually guaranteeing the band an upgrade, and Police Service of Northern Ireland wrapped up a stellar season with a second in the same grade, also in all probability locking a move up. The final announcement of the Grade 1 results was not made until about 8:30 pm GMT, in near darkness, when the BBC trained its cameras directly on Field Marshal Montgomery and a fake decoy crew on Inveraray &amp; District, raising each band\u2019s hopes that they had won the event, and communicating to other contending bands that they had not.<\/p>\n<p>Grade 1<br \/>\nOverall (12 competed)<br \/>\n1st Field Marshal Montgomery (Northern Ireland)<br \/>\n2nd Inveraray &amp; District (Scotland)<br \/>\n3rd St Laurence O\u2019Toole (Ireland)<br \/>\n4th Shotts &amp; Dykehead (Scotland)<br \/>\n5th ScottishPower (Scotland)<br \/>\n6th Police Scotland Fife (Scotland)<br \/>\n7th Simon Fraser University (Canada)<br \/>\n8th Spirit of Scotland (Scotland)<br \/>\n9th Greater Glasgow Police (Scotland)<br \/>\n10th 78th Fraser Highlanders (Canada)<br \/>\n11th Manawatu Scottish (New Zealand)<br \/>\n12th New Zealand Police<\/p>\n<p>Drumming: St. Laurence O\u2019Toole<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pipesdrums.com\/article\/xxxx-2016-world-champions\/\">Taken from Pipes | Drums<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Field Marshal Montgomery gained the 2016 World Pipe Band Championship at Glasgow Green, the eleventh in the band\u2019s storied history, in variable but mainly dry conditions rising to about 17 degrees, placing ahead of the 11 other Grade 1 bands that made the final round after a full day of competition on Friday. 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