Pipe Bands Victoria - PBV

This event in July and the Victorian achievements it celebrates are special. Member bands are encouraged to have their female pipers and drummers to register interest! Visit https://ausladies.link/ and for enquiries email [email protected] - act quickly please.

Australian Ladies much more than a great march this July "The Australian Ladies" by Willie Fergusson is one of the most popular 2/4 marches in the piping repertory, and the inspiration for the great tune will be suitably commemorated with a world record attempt in July in Melbourne. The piece was named for the Australian Ladies Pipe Band's 1925-27 worl

Congratulations to Steven and Hamish on their success at the RSPBA - The Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association Oceania Solo Drumming Championship and World Solos qualifier.

Congratulations to our drummers Steven and Hamish for their first and second placings in the Oceania Solo Drumming Championships!

Both results secure automatic qualification for the World Solo Drumming Championships semi-finals in Scotland this October.

And so it begins. The 2026 ANZAC day parade in Melbourne. Good luck to all our bands contributing to this day of remembering those who served. All the best to bands everywhere playing today and a shout out to all those band members who served.

Congratulations to Sgt Benjamin Sean Casey (3rd from the left) on placing equal 2nd in the Adult Drum Major Australian Championship. Not stranger to this event and many times a previous winner, it's great to see Banjamin continuing to compete. As the newly confirmed Vic Principal of Drill & Dress in Victoria, he's a great role model!

Congratulations to Scotch College #2 and City Of Melbourne Highland Pipe Band #2 as new Australian Champions, finding success in Perth, WA today. Scotch took out Novice B and Grade 4B, and Melbourne, Grade.4A.

Well done to Scotch #1 placing 2nd in Nov A and to Haileybury #1 and #2 being the other Victorian bans competing.

The Provisional Master Sheet of Results for today’s Championships is now available.

Please note all results are provisional, pending the protest period following distribution of results.

Bands can expect their detailed feedback later today.

A huge thank you to all bands, adjudicators, volunteers and supporters, an outstanding day of competition and performance.

The Master Sheet: https://pipebandsaustralia.com.au/APBC26Results

The PBV season is now run and done. A sincere things to contest promoters - Golden City Pipe Band Bendigo, Daylesford Highland Gathering, Ballarat Grammar, Haileybury and the Melbourne Highland Games & Celtic Festivalal.

Thanks to all the many volunteers, to the adjudicators, contest supervisors, scorers, and of course competing bands and supporters.

Next up for PBV, ANZAC Day and the Melbourne Tartan Festival (including a significant surprise celebration). Also in October we will see the return of the Geelong Highland Gathering in Bannockburn!

PBV adjudicators have been busy this season ensuring the future of both ours and other panels in Australia. Pictured here are the four who undertook trials at the Victorian Championships. Tony Ma (from Hong Kong - piping), Liam Nicolson (resident in Scotland - piping), Josh Chandler (Vic - piping) and William Sincock (NSW - piping).

Also doing trials this season Dave Telford (Vic - ensemble).

Of note, this season, we saw Matt Fraser do his first run as a qualified piping adjudicator and Dougal McConnell Vic/Tas a qualified ensemble adjudicator.

Congratulations and well done to all!

In what is hoped will become a regular pre-Vic Champs activity, adjudicators (local, trial, and interstate) met on Saturday for a workshop. Led by Paul Turner (RSPBA and Victorian Drumming and Ensemble Panels) included updates, discussion and listening activities, all directed towards more professional and consistent adjudication here. Thanks to Victorian Music Vice Principals Dave Telford for organising with Andrew Womersley and Harold Gillespie.

It's been gratifying that in the 4 days from the Victorian Championships in 2026 we're just shy of 60,000 views of the content - especially videos! An amazing level of interest and thank you.

To celebrate things a little more, below are the winning bands marching past and the massed ands from the Vic's. Congratulations to Scotch College 1 & 2 (Nov B, A and Gr 4B), City of Melbourne Highland 2 (Gr 4A), Old Scotch 1 (Gr 3), City of Melbourne Highland 1 (Gr 2) and Hawthorn (Gr 1).