Past Members

or those taking a hiatus from the band

PAST MEMBERS (or those taking a hiatus from the band)

Gavin Abell

Year you started learning your instrument: 1983

First tutor: PM Les Waskis

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

Year you joined ASPB: 1998

Jono Bosch

Year you started learning your instrument: 2013

First tutor: Damien Pitman

Other pipe bands you have played in: Jeppe High School Pipe Band, Knysna and District Pipe Band

Year you joined ASPB: 2014

Any other info you may like to share about yourself: I was also Pipe Major of the Jeppe High School Pipe Band in 2018

Caitlin Campbell

Year you started learning your instrument: 2015

First tutor: Rory Bellingan 

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

Year you joined ASPB: 2016

Any other info you may like to share about yourself: I met some of my best friends through pipe band

Mark Campbell

Year you started learning your instrument: 2010

First tutor: Reg Simpson

Other pipe bands you have played in: Kempton Park

Year you joined ASPB: 2014 

Brett Harzon

Year you started learning your instrument: 2016

First tutor: Damien Pitman

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

Year you joined ASPB: 2017

Brandon Holz

Year you started learning your instrument: 2011

First tutor: Damien Pitman

Other pipe bands you have played in: Knysna & Districts

Year you joined ASPB: 2012

Any other info you may like to share about yourself: I’ve never played a parade or competition without Gutsy, the Scottish Smurf in my sporran

Timothy Lincoln

Year you started learning your instrument: 2012

First tutor: Gary Davies & Damien Pitman 

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

Year you joined ASPB: 2017

Caitlin Pitman

Instrument you play: Tenor Drum

Year you started learning your instrument: 2015

First tutor: Mandla Ndabula

Other pipe bands you have played in: None

Year you joined ASPB: 2016

Any other info you may like to share about yourself: 

I joined the Pipe band world because I have a crazy passionate husband and I wanted to share in his passion and spend extra time with him (pipe band took up much of our lives!)

Damien Pitman

Year you started learning your instrument: 2000

First tutor: Rory Bellingan

Other pipe bands you have played in: Benoni MacTalla, Queen Victoria School, Jeppe Pipe Band & Highland Granite 

Year you joined ASPB: 2002

Any other info you may like to share about yourself: 

I live & work in Scotland, with my wife (Caitlin), we moved across in 2019, but we are both still passionate members of the African Skye Pipe Band!

Robyn Walker

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

Any other info you may like to share about yourself: I am a Highland dancer and I am learning to be a Drum Major