The 78th Fraser Highlanders Pipe Band, is a pipe band

Pipe band

A pipe band is a musical ensemble consisting of pipers and drummers. The term used by military pipe bands, pipes and drums, is also common....

 from Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Canada

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. The 78th Frasers became the first non-Scottish

Scotland

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 band to win the World Pipe Band Championships

World Pipe Band Championships

The World Pipe Band Championships is a pipe band competition currently held in Glasgow, Scotland every August. The event has been operating regularly since 1930, when the Scottish Pipe Band Association was formed...

, in the summer of 1987. In 2007, the Drum Corps led by Drew Duthart captured the Best Drum Corps Prize and the Best Bass Section award at the World Pipe Band Championships at Glasgow Green in Scotland.

Under the direction of Pipe Major

Pipe Major

The Pipe Major is the director of bagpipe music in a Scottish or Irish pipe band. Like Drum Major, the position of Pipe Major is derived from British Army traditions. During the early twentieth century, the term Sergeant Piper was used for the role in place of "Pipe Major".Civillian and military...

 Doug MacRae, the band is still active in the competitive pipe band arena to this day. The band has won both the North American Pipe Band Championships (held in Maxville, Ontario) and the Canadian Pipe Band Championships (held in Cambridge, Ontario

Cambridge, Ontario

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) a total of twelve times each. The Frasers travel to Scotland each summer to compete at the World's, and have finished in the prize list eleven times.

In addition to their competitive activities, the band has always had a mandate and goal to expand the pipe band idiom and to introduce new musical concepts into the genre through their recordings and concerts. Their recording Live In Ireland (1987) is regarded by some as the quintessential modern pipe band recording.

Their recordings include:

• 78th Fraser Highlanders (Faces album) (1983)
• Up to the Line (1985)
• Live In Ireland (1987)
• The Immigrant's Suite (1989)
• Live in Canada - The Megantic Outlaw Concert (1991)
• Live in Scotland (1993)
• Flame of Wrath (1998)
• Cascade (2003)