A Tap and a Roll – Graham Brown

Graham Alexander Stark Brown began drumming in the fall of 1991 under instruction of Doug Stronach. He started his drumming career as the Lead Drummer of the Milton Optimist Pipe Band, founded by his mother Gail. The band was very successful, winning the World Juvenile Championship in 1994, and the Grade 3 Worlds in 1997.

In 2002, after four years of playing Grade 1 in Ontario, Graham moved to Scotland to realize his lifelong dream of playing with Jim Kilpatrick and the Shotts and Dykehead Caledonia Pipe Band. With Shotts, Graham won 2 World Pipe Band Championships (2003, 2005), 3 World Drum Corps Championships (2002, 2003, 2005), and amassed a total of 16 Major drumming wins (3 Worlds, 3 Scottish, 5 British, 2 European, 3 Cowal).

In 2007 after six seasons with Shotts, Graham returned home to Canada and was named the Lead Drummer of the Grade 1 Peel Regional Police Pipe Band. Over five years Graham led Peel to many band and drumming wins including the North American Championships, and a place in the World Championship final. The fall of 2012 saw Graham reunite at Shotts with his brothers Blair and Glenn.

In the solo realm, Graham has won the North American Championships at Maxville seven times, the Agnew-Harrison Invitational six times, the Kansas City Gold Medal, and has been a Finalist at the World Solo Drumming Championships. Graham, teaches private lessons, workshops, and schools internationally. He is a certified judge with the Piper’s and Pipe Band Society of Ontario, and has previously sat on the Society’s music board.

Tunes:

Marches – Beginner

• At Long Last
• Castle Dangerous
• Down By the Sally Gardens
• Jenny’s Bawbee
• Teribus
• The Atholl and Breadalbane Gathering
• The March of the Champions Supreme
• The Meeting of the Waters
• The Old Rustic Bridge
• The Pikeman’s March

Marches – Intermediate

• All the Blue Bonnets Are Over the Border
• Carradale Bay
• Dreaming of Islay
• Edinburgh City Police Pipe Band
• Hugh Kennedy
• Leaving Arisaig
• P/M Willie Gray’s Farewell to the Glasgow Police
• The 25th KOSB’s Farewell to Meerut
• The Cowal Gathering
• The Crags of Tumbledown Mountain

Marches – Advanced

• Jimmy Young
• Lord Alexander Kennedy
• P/M Tom McAllister
• Stirlingshire Militia
• The Argyllshire Gathering
• The Clan MacColl
• The Conundrum

Strathspeys – Beginner

• Lady MacKenzie of Gairloch
• Molly Connell
• The Smith’s A Gallant Fireman

Strathspeys – Intermediate

• Caledonian Canal
• Dornie Ferry
• The Ewe with the Crooked Horn

Strathspeys – Advanced

• Cabar Feidh
• Inverary Castle
• Susan MacLeod
• The Islay Ball
• Tulloch Castle

Reels -Beginner

• Miss Girdle
• The Ale is Dear
• The High Road to Linton

Reels – Intermediate

• Back of the Moon
• Captain Lachlan MacPhail of Tiree
• Fiona MacLeod
• Kalabakan
• Lexy McAskill
• The Blackberry Bush
• The Cockerel in the Creel

Reels – Advanced

• Cameronian Rant
• John MacKechnie
• Loch Caron
• Miss Proud
• Pretty Marion
• The Smith of Chilliechassie

Hornpipes – Beginner

• The Jolly Beggarman

Hornpipes – Intermediate

• Lucy Cassidy
• Stevie’s First Bar

Hornpipes – Advanced

• Andrew Duthart
• Calum Beag
• Graham Brown
• Jack Adrift
• Jimmy’s Gift
• Ragtime Pipers
• Ronda Blair
• The Burst Mattress

Jigs – Beginner

• Old Hag at the Churn
• The Panda

Jigs – Intermediate

• Inspector Donald Campbell of Ness
• The Lark in the Morning

Jigs – Advanced

• Brendan Murphy
• Bronni’s Blue Brozzi
• Butter Fingers
• Rory MacLeod
• St. Ninian’s Parish Centre Ceilidh
• The Braes of Mellinish
• Troy’s Wedding