De La Salle Scout Pipe Band Anniversary Gallery

Massed Band Celebration 2009

The Chief Scout and the Mayor of Waterford paid tribute to the De La Salle Scout Group Pipe Band at Waterford City Hall on Saturday May 2nd 2009. The band was celebrating its 75th anniversary and over 100 pipers and drummers from all over the world and various parts of Ireland gathered in Waterford for a weekend of celebrations. Included in the gathering were band members from all decades since the band’s foundation and from as far back as the mid forties. The visitors from abroad came from all over Scotland, the UK, Switzerland, Hong Kong, The USA and Australia and included members of the Scout Centenary Pipe Band which was formed in 2006 for the Scottish and Irish 100 years of scouting celebrations in 2007 and 2008. Irish band members from Waterford, Gorey, New Ross, Portlaw, Cobh, Cork City and New Castle West came to Waterford over the weekend to join the De La Salle Scout Group Pipe Band members in their programme of activities. Locals and visitors to the city on both Saturday and Sunday were given a fantastic treat when all of the pipers and drummers formed a massed pipe band and paraded through the city. This was a rare experience for Irish people to see and hear such a large group of player perform together.