Current Members

Graham Hide

Pipe Major Grade 2

Year you started learning your instrument: 1990

First tutor: Rory Bellingan

Other pipe bands you have played in: The Jeppe High School Pipe Band, Witwatersrand Rifles 

Year you joined ASPB: 1998

Steve St Claire-Hall

Leading Drummer Grade 2

Year you started learning your instrument: 1984

First tutor: Terry Hall - my dad

Other pipe bands you have played in:

SA Irish, SA Medical Services, Light Horse Pipe Band, Witwatersrand Rifles, Cape Town Highlanders, African Skye

Year you joined ASPB: 1998

Any other info you'd like to share about yourself: 

Qualified PDQ assessor from RSPBA grade six.

Four times open SA champion snare drumming

Jeppe High School Pipe Band tutor

Matthew Keyzer

Pipe Sergeant Grade 2 and Band Manager

Year you started learning your instrument: 2000

First tutor: Gerard Knobel

Other pipe bands you have played in: Jeppe/CBC Boksburg, guest with Benoni High School Pipe Band in 2006, Knysna & District 2018

Year you joined ASPB: 2004

Any other info you may like to share about yourself: I have had many tutors over the years and I am extremely thankful for their dedication. They include Gerard Knobel, Grant Cooper, Sean Maher and Rory Bellingan.

I am also currently a piping tutor for the Jeppe Pipe Band. I started tutoring the Jeppe/CBC Boksburg band in 2008.

Rory Bellingan

Pipe Major Grade 3

Year you started learning your instrument : 1977

First tutor : Peter Holgreaves

Other pipe bands you have played in : Jeppe High School Pipe Band, Witwatersrand Rifles, South African Medical Health Services Pipe Band

Year you joined ASPB : 1998 (Founder Member)

Devin Southee 

Leading Drummer Grade 3

Instrument you play: Snare Drum

Year you started learning your instrument: 2018

First tutor: Steve St Claire-Hall

Other pipe bands you have played in: Jeppe High School Pipe Band 

Year you joined ASPB: 2021

Freddie MacFarlane

Pipe Sergeant Grade 3

Year you started learning your instrument: 1996

First tutor: John Volker

Other pipe bands you have played in: Kaffrarian Rifles Pipe Band, East London Caledonian Society Pipe Band

Year you joined ASPB: 2009

Angus Bellingan

Pipe Major Grade 4

Year you started learning your instrument: 1982

First Tutor: Tommy Bundy

Previous Bands: Jeppe High School Pipe Band, Witwatersrand Rifles and Natal Mounted Rifles

Year joining Skye: 1999

Rory Bellingan

Playing Tutor for the Grade 4 Band

Year you started learning your instrument : 1977

First tutor : Peter Holgreaves

Other pipe bands you have played in : Jeppe High School Pipe Band, Witwatersrand Rifles, South African Medical Health Services Pipe Band

Year you joined ASPB : 1998 (Founder Member)

Grenville Payne

Leading Drummer Grade 4

The year you started learning your instrument: February 1960. I was 14 years old

First tutor: Billy Moseley

Other pipe bands you have played in: Southern Caledonian Society Pipe Band, Witwatersrand Rifles Regimental Association Pipe Band

Year you joined ASPB: 2022

Any other info you may like to share about yourself: As a family, we have strong Caledonian ancestry through our Grandparents, etc. Both my wife Glenys and I joined Southern Callies at about the age of five

Angus Bellingan

Year you started learning your instrument: 1982

First Tutor: Tommy Bundy

Previous Bands: Jeppe High School Pipe Band, Witwatersrand Rifles and Natal Mounted Rifles

Year joining Skye: 1999

Emma Bellingan

Year you started learning your instrument: 2013

First tutor: Rory Bellingan

Other pipe bands you have played in: None

Year you joined ASPB: 2013

Ethan Bellingan

Year you started learning your instrument: 2019

First tutor: Rory Bellingan 

Other pipe bands you have played in: Jeppe High School Pipe Band

Year you joined ASPB: 2019

Louis De Kock

Year you started learning your instrument: 2011

First tutor: Peter Holgreaves

Other pipe bands you have played in: No

Year you joined ASPB: 2016

Any other info you may like to share about yourself: My other hobbies are model trains and scuba diving. Currently training towards becoming a scuba instructor and really enjoying ocean diving

Robyn Faherty

Year you started learning your instrument: 2019

First tutor: Chris Mulinder 

Other pipe bands you have played in: Jeppe High School Pipe Band 

Year you joined ASPB: 2022

Any other info you may like to share about yourself: My late, great uncle played the bagpipes in the Black Watch in Scotland.

Peter Gibbs

Year you started learning your instrument: 2008

First tutor: Ian Houston

Other pipe bands you have played in: None

Year you joined ASPB: 2008

Hunter Hide

Year you started learning your instrument: 2017

First tutor: Damien Pitman

Other pipe bands you have played in: Jeppe High School Pipe Band

Year you joined ASPB: 2019

Ian Houston

Year you started learning your instrument: 1980

First tutor: The late Jimmy Elston

Other pipe bands you have played in: Krugersdorp Pipes and Drums (now Glen Allen)

Year you joined ASPB: 2006

Any other info you may like to share about yourself: I am a headmaster of a private school located in Tzaneen, Limpopo

James Howard

Year you started learning your instrument: 2018

First tutor: Rory Bellingan 

Other pipe bands you have played in: Jeppe High School Pipe Band

Year joined ASBP: 2018

Paul Louw

Year you started learning your instrument: 1978

First tutor: Alan Watters

Other pipe bands you have played in: CBC Mount Edmund, South African Medical Services, KPPB

Year you joined ASPB: 2018

Sean Maher

Year you started learning your instrument: 1975

First tutor: Roy Donaldson

Other pipe bands you have played in: CBC Boksburg; Boksburg Callies; Delville Pipe Band; Wit Rifles; Cape Town Callies.

Year you joined ASPB: 1998

Ewan McAlpine

Year you started learning your instrument: 1996

First tutor: Gordon Ridgard 

Other pipe bands you have played in: None

Year you joined ASPB: 1999 and again in 2020

David McMaster

Year you started learning your instrument: 1979

First tutor: Pete Hargreves

Other pipe bands you have played in: Jeppe High School Pipe Band, SAMS Pipe Band, Witwatersrand Rifles Pipe Band

Year you joined ASPB: 2021

Any other info you may like to share about yourself: I am an Artist, Jeweller, Lecturer, and have been doing this for about  35 years

Ross Olive

Year you started learning your instrument: 2013

First tutor: Damien Pitman

Other pipe bands you have played in: Jeppe High School Pipe Band, Queen Victoria School Pipe Band

Year you joined ASPB: 2015

Any other info you may like to share about yourself: After leaving school I worked as a teaching assistant at Queen Victoria school in Scotland and played in their Pipe Band. I am Currently the Band Master of the Jeppe High School Pipe Band.

Richard Prall

Year you started learning your instrument: 2006

First tutor: Rory Bellingan

Other pipe bands you have played in: None

Year you joined ASPB: 2006

Any other info you may like to share about yourself: I always had the dream of learning to play the GHBP. As a kid I never got the opportunity but at the end of 2005, at the age of 38 years old, I decided that it was now or never, and I did not want to regret never having learned the instrument. I now play as often as I can; funerals, weddings, individual competitions and band competitions. I currently have tuition with Chris Mulinder, pipe maker, piper and ex-pipe majorex-solo piper. Never stop learning, never stop moving forward!

Aeden Southee

Year you started learning your instrument: 2018

First tutor: Damien Pitman

Other pipe bands you have played in: Jeppe High School Pipe band

Year you joined ASPB: 2020

Any other info you may like to share about yourself: Music is something I've always been fascinated by and have always wanted to learn about and understand

Michael Theron

Year you started learning your instrument: 2015

First tutor: Dr Herbie Campbell & Damien Pitman

Other pipe bands you have played in: Jeppe Boys Pipe Band 

Year you joined ASPB: 2017

Peter Thompson

Year you started learning your instrument: 1983

First tutor: Richard Margolis

Other pipe bands you have played in: Wit Rifles Regimental Pipe Band, Wit Rifles Association Pipe Band, Boksburg Callies

Year you joined ASPB: 2019

Any other info you may like to share about yourself: I left Wit Rifles Regimental Pipe Band in the early 90's (this was about a year before the band went to the Edinburgh Tattoo. This was the last time I played pipes before joining Witwatersrand Rifles Association Pipe Band in March of 2019 and then African Skye in July of that year.

Gareth Watt

Year you started learning your instrument: 1991

First tutor: Rory Bellingan

Other pipe bands you have played in: Jeppe High School Pipe Band, Wits Rifles

Year you joined ASPB: 1998

Bonga Bosani

Instrument you play: Snare drums

Year you started learning your instrument: 2019

First tutor: Steve St. Claire-Hall

Other pipe bands you have played in: Jeppe High School Pipe Band

Year you joined ASPB: 2021

Sophie-Leigh Claassen

Instrument you play: Tenor and Bass Drum

Year you started learning your instrument: 2014 

First tutor: Mariette Gouvea 

Other pipe bands you have played in: Jeppe High School Pipe Band 

Year you joined ASPB: 2014 

Any other info you may like to share about yourself: I am currently a tutor for African Skye and very excited to share my passion for drumming in the pipe band community

Bronwyn Costine

Instrument you play: Tenor Drum

Year you started learning your instrument: 1994

First tutor: can't remember 

Other pipe bands you have played in: Jeppe High School Pipe Band

Year you joined ASPB: 1999

Skylar Hide 

Instrument you play: Tenor Drum

Year you started learning your instrument: 2020

First tutor: Siobhan Naude 

Year you joined ASPB: 2022

Stephen Hutcheon

Instrument you play: Snare Drum

Year I started learning: 2018

First tutor: Ashley Maritz

Other bands: Jeppe High School Pipe Band

Year I joined ASPB: 2020

Any other info you may like to share about yourself: I love drumming and played in the Basel Tattoo in Switzerland with ASPB in 2022, and had a great experience.

Vivian Jeffrey

Instrument you play: Bass Drum

First tutor/s: Dave Jeffrey and Donald Graham

Other pipe bands you have played in: Transvaal Scottish, Boksburg Callies Pipe Band, Richmond Avenue, African Skye Pipe Band -  Grade 3

Year you joined ASPB: 2021 (rejoined)

Nkanyezi Mabena

Instrument you play: Tenor Drum

Year you started learning your instrument: 2017

First tutor: Noncebo Simelani

Other pipe bands you have played in:

Jeppe High School Pipe band

Year you joined ASPB: 2022

Ashley Maritz

Instrument you play: Snare drum 

Year you started learning your instrument: 2013

First tutors: Mark Gouvea and Craig Whall 

Other pipe bands you have played in: Jeppe High School Pipe Band

Year you joined ASPB: 2014 

Kaitlyn Merrifield 

Instrument you play: Tenor Drum

The year you started learning your instrument: 2022

First tutor: Sophie Claasen 

Other pipe bands you have played in: None

Year you joined ASPB: 2022

Any other info you may like to share about yourself: I love music and I am currently a student at Jeppe High School for Girls

Kiara Prall

Instrument you play: Tenor Drum

Year you started learning your instrument: 2019

First tutor: Sophie Claassens 

Other pipe bands you have played in: None 

Year you joined ASPB: 2020

Leila Schultz

Instrument you play: Tenor Drum

Year you started learning your instrument: 2011

First tutor: Bronwyn Costine

Other pipe bands you have played in: Jeppe High School Pipe Band 

Year you joined ASPB: 2013

Remo Sogno

Instrument you play: Snare Drum

Year you started learning your instrument: 2019

First tutor: Steve St Claire Hall

Other pipe bands you have played in: none

Year you joined ASPB: 2021

Jenna St Clair-Hall

Instrument you play: Tenor Drum

Year you started learning your instrument: 2015

First tutor: Mark Gouvea

Other pipe bands you have played in: Jeppe High School Pipe Band

Year you joined ASPB: 2021

Liam St Clair-Hall

Instrument you play: Snare Drum

Year you started learning your instrument: 2015

First tutor: Mark Gouvea

Other pipe bands you have played in: Jeppe High School Pipe Band

Year you joined ASPB: 2019

Kiera Tucker

Instrument/s you play: Snare drum and Drum Major.

The year you started learning your instrument: 2019

First tutor: Rahil Sookdeo

Other pipe bands you have played in: Benoni 

Year you joined ASPB: 2021