The founder of a pipe band in Dumfries will be honoured with a special performance this weekend. Corberry Park Pipers will play at the Vintage Rally at the town’s Park Farm on Sunday in one of their longest-running commitments.
But during a break at around 2pm the band will head to the street where it all began to celebrate the founder Jim McConnachie as he prepares to step down from the band after 25 years.
Jim has taught hundreds of children in the two and a half decades since he started tutoring at his home in Corberry Park. The 87-year-old said: “In between playing at the Vintage Rally, the band will come back to Corberry Park and play where the group started out. “It’s my last year because I’m retiring at the end of September with a concert at Locharbriggs Community Centre.
That coincides with 25 years since four laddies chapped my door and asked me to teach them the bagpipes. “It’s been a long road but I like working with bairns.
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