World Champion SFU Pipe Band Drum Corps in-concert

The Simon Fraser University Pipe Band has been the Grade I World Champions on six occasions, as well as North American and Australian Champions, and are continually successful in local, national, and international competitions. Over the years, in addition to six world championships the band has nine second-place finishes and placed in the top three more than 20 times, rarely placing out of the elite top six.

The band has performed concerts at some of world's most prestigious performing arts venues including Carnegie Hall, Sydney Opera House, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, and Lincoln Center. creating live recordings at these venues among its 12 albums and videos.

Its members have won all the world's premier solo piping and drumming competitions, including 8 Gold Medals, have created the world's largest summer school for piping and drumming "Piping Hot Summer Drummer", and are in high demand world-wide for teaching. SFU Pipe Band is the top level band in the SFU pipe band system, which includes the Robert Malcolm Memorial pipe bands in grades II, III and IV.

The SFU Pipe Band Drum Corps took the world drumming championship for the second year in a row in 2023, with Lead Tip Reid Maxwell leading the corps to their victory.  Maxwell, who earlier played with Scotland’s Dysart & Dundonald Pipe Band before coming to Canada to play with 78th Fraser Highlanders, then SFU in 1992, has now tallied an impressive 20-world championship titles in band and drumming.

ScotFestBC is proud to present the world champion SFU Pipe Band Drum Corps in a special concert recognizing their achievements.