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FW: Concert Announcement
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From: Eric Ryan-Johnson 
Sent: Thursday, 13 November, 2003 2:56 PM
Subject: FW: Concert Announcement


The City of Tulsa Pipes & Drums presents the

Masters' Concert 2003
Saturday, November 22nd
7:00 p.m.
at Tulsa's Akdar Shrine Auditorium at 2808 South Sheridan Road, Tulsa

$8 for adults
$6 for seniors and children (12 & under)

Clinic
Saturday, November 22nd
10:00 a.m. till about 3:00 p.m.
For pipers and aspiring pipers, the cost for the entire day (clinic and concert) will be $25.
Also at Tulsa's Akdar Shrine Auditorium at 2808 South Sheridan Road, Tulsa

The featured performers will be Bob Worrall and Jimmy Bell, along with some representatives from Lyon College.  The clinic and concert will take place.    The clinic portion, which will be taught by Mr.Worrell. If you aren't confident enough in your piping skills to actively participate in the clinic, you can certainly sit on the side of the room and take notes from there.  We may be arranging lunch on site also.

For those who have seen Bob Worrall in concert, you know what a wonderful performance he presents, weaving stories and playing various pipes and whistles during the evening.  For those that have not, it is an absolute treat.  And Jimmy Bell, along with his entourage from Lyon College, will keep you captivated with piping that is presented in many ways accompanied by many instruments.  It promises to be an evening you will not soon forget! 

Seating is limited to 225 so get your reservations now!  For tickets and information please contact:
   Bill Tetrick -  697-5342  tulsapipesanddrums at yahoo.com
   Rick Ewing - 687-0354  parkrecrewing at azalea.net

I hope to see as many of you as possible in Tulsa on the 22nd.  

Regards,
Rick Ewing
<parkrecrewing at azalea.net>

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About the performers

Bob Worrall - Bob Worrall is one of North America's leading teachers, adjudicators and performers.  Bob is a respected composer, having published two collections of bagpipe music, and also having compositions in a large number of other collections. He is featured on three solo piping recordings, including the Piping Centre's 1997 recording series, and is a member of the folk group "Scantily Plaid", which has released its highly praised first recording, "Just Checking In".

By the time Bob retired from competitive piping in 1983, his solo accomplishments were extensive, both in North America and Scotland. He won the North American Professional Championship an unprecedented 7 times and the Ontario Professional Championship Supreme title for 12 of his 13 years in the 
professional class. He was also the 1977 winner of the March, Strathspey & Reel events in Inverness. He was a pupil of Bill Millar, Willie Connell and the late John Wilson.

He was added to the Piobaireachd Society's Senior Judges list and in November of 2000, became the first non-U.K. adjudicator to judge a major U.K. solo event 
when he was selected to adjudicate the Bratach Gorm in London.

Bob was the senior instructor at the Gaelic College in Cape Breton for 15 years.  His weekend workshops and recitals provide him with a schedule that has him booked months in advance and have taken him to virtually all of the Canadian provinces and 35 U.S. states.  


Jimmy Bell - A Highland Dancer beginning at age 3,  Jimmy began taking piping lessons from his mother at age 8.  She was taught by P/M John MacKenzie of New York and the Highland Light Infantry.  His lessons were taken over by his father, George M. Bell, after the first year.  George's teachers were P/M R. G. Hardie for 14 years, and P/M Donald MacLeod, MBE for 25 years.  

Jimmy has won all major solo and band awards in the EUSPBA and SUSPBA several times.  He was EUSPBA Open Champion in his first year in Open Competition.  Jimmy was also the grade 2 Amateur Snare Champion.  Yet another outstanding accomplishment was his playing with the Kenmure Pipe Band (grade 1) at 12 years old.  This band was the EUSPBA Champion 9 times in 10 years!  Mr. Bell was the founder and P/M of the Parlin and District Pipe Band.  This was the preeminent EUSPBA grade 1 band till his move to Florida in 1990.  From the Kenmure and Parlin organizations have come 27 judges worldwide; more than any other band in history!

Jimmy took over the Directorship of the Lyon College Scottish Heritage Program in August of 2003.  The band continues to grow from strength to strength, and will compete at the grade 3 level this year.  




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contact: 
Eric Ryan-Johnson
<ericryanjohnson at earthlink.net> 

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