Pipe Bands S.A

Since the inception of the Australian Pipe Band Championships a number of South Australian Bands have achieved success in various grades. The City of Adelaide Pipe Band should be acknowledged as the only South Australian Band to win the title of Australian Champion Pipe Band when in 1998, under Pipe Major Brett Tidswell and Leading Side Greg Bassani, they won Piping and Drumming in the Grade One category and the overall Championships. In that year they also held the South Australian, Victorian and New South Wales state titles.

Past Winners include:

• 2008 Grade 2 City of Adelaide Pipe Band. (Pipe Major Brett Tidswell)
• 1998 Grade 1 City of Adelaide Pipe Band. (Pipe Major Brett Tidswell)
• 1986 Grade 2 Royal Caledonian Society of S.A. (Pipe Major Brian Erskine)
• 1982 Grade 3 Ballantines Scotch Pipe Band. (Pipe Major David Patterson)
• 1980 Grade 2 Adelaide University Regiment Pipe Band. (Pipe Major Peter Hewlett)
• 1976 Grade 3 Third Batallion Royal Australia Regiment. (Pipe Major David Elliot)
• 1972 Grade 2 Adelaide University Regiment. (Pipe Major Ernest Dowler OAM)
• 1968 Grade 2 McDouall-Stuart Memorial Pipe Band. (Pipe Major Robert Horne)
• 1966 Grade 3 McDouall-Stuart Memorial Pipe Band. (Pipe Major Robert Horne)
• 1964 Grade 3 City of Whyalla Pipe Band. (Pipe Major Alex McIntosh)
• 1962 Grade 2 Blue Lake Ladies Pipe Band. (Pipe Major Jannette Collins)