RSPBA Northern Ireland Branch

The RSPBA Northern Ireland Branch organizes pipe-band and drum-major competitions and supports piping and drumming education in Northern Ireland.

Background

The Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association Northern Ireland Branch (RSPBANI) is a governing body to oversee Pipe band competition in Northern Ireland. We represent approximately seventy pipe bands in full membership of the association in Northern Ireland and over three thousand individual members.

The RSPBANI organises and delivers all Championship Pipe Band and Drum Major Contests in Northern Ireland and the Ulster Solo Piping and Drumming Championships. We are dedicated to the promotion of the culture and advancement of Pipe and drum music and the encouragement of arts and cultural tourism across Northern Ireland.

The branch provides advice, assistance and guidance to the piping community generally on organisation, governance, education and music development. We also provide a teaching facility across Northern Ireland to nationally accredited standards.