Dundee Scots
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The Dundee Scots were a
Background
The band rose to national fame under the directorship of Doyle Heffron. Noteworthy performances included playing for Richard Nixon's inaugural in 1972. One of the first successes was beating out 49 other states to win the VFW parade in St. Louis, Missouri in 1970. The Scots furthered that success by winning the Governor's Trophy at the National Cherry Festival in 1969, 1970, and 1971, prompting representatives of the Cherry Festival to travel to Dundee's Spain Field and award the trophy as a permanent prize to the Dundee Scots. Prior to that, the trophy had always been a traveling trophy. Doyle Heffron later became the director of the Cherry Festival in Traverse City, Michigan.
In 1972 they were one of the founding members of the
The Dundee Scots released an album in 1971 entitled The Sound of the Dundee Scots. This album included music from field competitions dating from 1968 through 1971.
- Scotland the Brave
- British Grenadier & Rule Britannia
- Field Competition 1971: Narrator - Robert Lemke
- Trumpet Voluntary
- Brigadoon Medley
- Commonwealth Medley
- What Kind of Fool am I
- Wee MacGregor
- Londonderry Aire
- Auld Lang Syne
- Brigadoon Fanfare
- Camelot Medley
- When Johnny Comes Marching Home
- Macarena
- Requiem for the Masses
- Swing Low
- Somewhere
- April in Paris
- We've Only Just Begun
Unlike other High School bands, the Scots were a
References
- ^ Tennison, Patricia (20 June 1994). "SCOTS BAND ENDS ITS REIGN AS KIDS MARCH ELSEWHERE". chicagotribune.com.
External links
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- "St. Petersburg Times - Google News Archive Search".