The National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland

The National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland (NYPBoS) is a youth pipe band headed by Steven Blake,[1] consisting of over 100 members who teach and perform around the British isles.[2][3]

The band was founded in 2003 as part of the National Piping Centre in Glasgow and features pipers and drummers between the ages of ten and twenty five.[4] Their structure currently consists of three bands, the Junior Band, the Development Band and the Senior Band.

  1. ^ "Steven Blake appointed new Director of the National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland". Bagpipe.News. Retrieved 23 February 2021.
  2. ^ Cromie, Andrew (13 November 2012). "Exciting line-up for city's first festival of piping". News Letter.
  3. ^ "National Youth Pipe Band comes to Western Isles". Stornoway Gazette. 20 September 2012. Retrieved 22 November 2012.
  4. ^ Gilchrist, Jim (20 April 2011). "Folk, Jazz, Etc : Lights, chanter, action for young pipers' new 'total performance'". The Scotsman. p. 38.