In 2007 the Maitland sponsored Mid Argyll Pipe Band celebrated its 80 anniversary. It was also the year the band won "SCOTTISH PIPE BAND OF THE YEAR" at the Scots Trad Music Awards.
Led by Pipe Major Tony Higgins this largely youth band performs at a number of local community engagements and has an ongoing teaching programme in piping and drumming.
In recent yours the band has built up two significant partnerships. Firstly with the Golowan Festival in Penzance where they have performed five times since 1997 including this year, secondly with Poland's only pipe Band, the Czestochowa Pipes and Drums. Mid Argyll performed in Krakow in 2006 and hosted the Poles in Scotland in August this year.
September 2007 saw the launch of their new concert repertoire, Blackwood and Hickory. Produced by John Saich of Wild Biscuit Music and supported by James Mackintosh and Brian McAlpine this was an evening of footstompin, funky, grooving, and at times emotional pipe band music - traditional music with a twist - and the band is ambitious to build on the success of this project. | 
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