ASHBOURNE CONTEST 2005

GRADE IV

1
Grampian Corby
2 Welsh Piping Society
3
Wolverhampton
4
Luton & District
5
Essex Caledonian
6
Morpeth
7
West Midlands Fire Service
8
Nottinghamshire Police
9
Triumph Motors RBL
10
Ashbourne & District
11
Greater Manchester Fire Service
12
Leicestershire & Rutland County RBL
13
Greater Manchester Celtic

Yet again, another third place. This makes it six English contests in a row that we've ended up in this position and it's starting to get a bit annoying!!

On the positive side however, this was without doubt our best performance ever. The pipe sound was good, as was the playing. The drummers were also happy with their performance and there were many knowledgeable people around the arena tipping us for the win - shame the official judges didn't agree!!

Never mind, it was a performance that we were all proud of.

Now if we can just start repeating this sort of performance we can start to make progress again!