Drummers

The Drum Section
Beat this..

Dave Bowman
In the summer of 2002 at the tender age of 16, Dave Bowman was coaxed into playing with the Alberta Caledonia Pipe Band by none other than the infamous Corporal "Punishment" Hendrickson. He subsequently began playing with the band in the 2003 contest season. Although currently residing in the city of Calgary, Dave calls Winnipeg his home and is a proud, active, and contributing member of the local piping and drumming community in Manitoba.
Dave has had success as a solo player along with the band's successes, placing at the Harrison-Agnew Memorial Invitational and the North American Pipe Band Championships as a grade 1 amateur player. He now looks towards establishing himself as a successful professional soloist in North America, as well as qualifying for this year's World Pipe Band Championship afternoon final with the band.

Tennille Brown
Her name is Tennille Brown and she is Norwegian but plays the scottish pipe snare. Her mom taught her how to play the drums at the age of 12. She played with the Shuswap Pipes and Drums before playing for RMMPB. She played with SFU for 5 years, winning 2 world championships, before playing with ALCAL. Her dream has always been to play with her favorite cousin Peter and...she's livin' the dream! She also likes hats!... and stuff.

Kristen Coulson

Kathy MacPherson
Kathy joined the band in 2003. Originally from Nova Scotia, Kathy made her way west and play with SFU from 1995-1998 then RMM II from 1999-2002. She was lead drummer for her last 2 seasons with RMM and finished 2nd at the Worlds in 2002.

Lloyd Martens
I joined Alberta Caledonia in 1999 and cut my grade one teeth on our first CD, "They Took Their Leave". We also did a couple well received concerts and in 2000 I was blessed to walk into the same circle as the bands that I had idolized for twenty five years. Bands like Shott's and Strathclyde Police, Simon Fraser University and Field Marshall Montgomery. It was a thrill then and it's a thrill now. These are, without a doubt, the most exciting times in my thirty two years as a pipeband drummer.
I also feel truly blessed when I look around the circle and see the faces of the players in the band. We have some amazing talent in this band and some really young talent as well, which bodes well for the future.

Andrew Miller
Andrew "The Boy" Miller has been playing on pipe band teams since 1996 and with Alberta Caledonia since 1999. He has won numerous solo awards in Canada and the United States and continues to compete professionally. Pipe band drumming served as a gateway into his exploration of other drumming genres. He is currently enrolled in the Jazz Performance program at McGill University in Montreal. Regardless of the distance from the band, Andrew's love for the music and for the band keeps him coming back year after year.

Doug Mongomery
Before joining Alberta Caledonia, Doug was a tenor drummer with the Ben Nevis Pipe Band of Edmonton.

Ian Morris
Ian joined the band at the young age of 15, after playing with the Ogden Legion Pipe band for 7 years. With the band playing 2 concerts that same year, he quickly realized the amount of hard work and dedication it took to compete at a world class level. He enjoys traveling to Scotland with his band mates, and would gladly accept the opportunity to have a pint of Belhavens and a hamlet at the Park Bar any day of the week. In Scotland he also enjoys the company of other fellow pipers and drummers that he normally only gets to see annually. Although, he dislikes it when people can only talk about Pipe bands (mainly, their own...). Some of his favorite drummers are Jojo Mayer, Billy Martin and the axis of evil (you know who you are.)

Jacquie Troy
Jacquie Troy is a kilt collector who has been in so many Police pipe bands that some think she may be following her life long dream of being a Bounty Hunter. When she's not drumming, she may be found putting the finishing touches on the Troy McAllister reeds and learning Mairi's Wedding on the pipes, minus D-throws.
Her idol, in so many ways, and extremely good looking lead drummer, Peter Hendrickson, has been quoted as saying "We haven't won Dress and Deportment since '93... with the addition of Jacquie Troy, our teen style icon, perhaps this year, with pink stilettos and turquoise fedoras (thanks to Jacquie's fashion expertise), we will be #1."

Holly Shaw
For several years Holly absolutely refused to get involved in any of her family's pipeband extravaganzas. But after attending the World Pipe Band Championships in 2003, she gave in, took up tenor drumming, and has loved it ever since. She joined the Ogden Legion pipe band that summer and quickly progressed from a beginner to professional soloist within two years, thanks to her excellent instructors and support from competition judges. Since watching Alberta Caledonia practice just before performing at the world's in 2003, and idolizing them at every competition since then, she couldn't be more excited about jamming with such an awesome group of pipers and drummers.

Tasha Young
Tasha began attending pipe band events when she was 14, when Andrew Miller encouraged her to come out to the Ellerslie highland games. It didn’t occur to her to actually try learning an instrument until the summer of 2002, when she began taking snare drum lessons from Andrew and then began playing with the Edmonton Boys’ Pipe Band in the fall. She went on to compete with them in Scotland, and then with further instruction from Peter Hendrickson and Vern Griebel, she joined Alberta Caledonia on tenor in 2003 when she was 18. She does not have any Scottish blood whatsoever, but for some reason has a remarkable affection for the sound of bagpipes. In the past couple of years she has studied African percussion and dance as well as East Indian vocals and tablas at the University of Alberta. Tasha has a penchant for immediately falling asleep in any type of moving vehicle.

The Leadership
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D/S Peter Hendrickson
Peter fell in love with drumming at the age of 14, in Ottawa, before his final parade with the Cameron Highlanders of Ottawa Cadet Corps, when he watched the drummers warm up outside the armouries. The next day he took the bus to the nearest music store and bought his first pair of sticks and a practice pad. He remembers vividly his interaction with the music store attendant, as the gentleman arose from teaching a guitar lesson and grabbed two different "heavy metal" drumsticks from two different areas of the shop and handed them over carelessly. Peter then asked, "Shouldn't they be the same?" The attendant answered, "If they were the same, it'd sound like you're playing with one hand." The then impressionable Peter paid for the sticks and pad and went home, where he began transcribing a pipe band CD his mother had given him. That same summer of 1990, Peter's family moved to Calgary, where he joined the Calgary Highlanders Cadet Corps and began studying with his first and most influential drumming instructor, Lloyd Martens (who is presently the engine room of Alberta Caledonia). Two years later, in September of 1992, Peter joined Alberta Caledonia (then, Edmonton Caledonia) and began competing as a grade 1 soloist.
Since then, Peter has become an open soloist, has served as lead drummer of the Regimental Pipes and Drums of the Calgary Highlanders, taught workshops and summer camps, studied with Brian McCue, Tim Boan, Jim Kilpatrick, and extensively with John Fisher, and has competed in the World Pipe Band Championships eight times, finishing in the top ten on two occasions.
Peter also plays drum set and percussion professionally, having played, recorded, and toured with some of western Canada's finest musicians, including concerts with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra and the Vancouver Philharmonic Orchestra. He spent a number of years drumming for dance classes at the University of Alberta, Grant MacEwan College, and the Edmonton Dance Centre. He has studied jazz at Grant MacEwan College in Edmonton and St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia.
Since being appointed lead drummer of Alberta Caledonia in 2002, Peter has worked hard (with the help of the extremely talented drummers he is fortunate enough to play with every year) to take the drum corps to a new level of sound, musicality, and innovation, hoping to continually climb the ladder of standings at the World Championships.