The BC Pipers’ Association is proud to announce that the 2025 Boney Music Memorial Invitational Piping Competition and Recital in memory of Andrew Bonar, will take place Saturday, March 15, 2025 at the Seaforth Armoury, 1650 Burrard Street, Vancouver, B.C. The purpose of the evening is to honour Andrew’s memory by raising funds for brain cancer research, in his name for the BC Cancer Foundation, in addition to the Boney Music Memorial fund, while offering a forum to see and hear outstanding music by the Association’s top players. Doors open 6:30pm with performances at 7:00pm, performance will be available on YouTube. Please note that hats are not permitted to be worn in the Seaforth messes.

The Boney Music Memorial Invitational is an annual piping competition and recital in memory of Andrew Bonar featuring the top Open pipers in the BC Pipers’ Association Grand Aggregate standings. The 2025 competitors are Grand Aggregate winner, Alastair Lee, Zephan Knichel, Cameron Bonar, Alan Bevan and Craig Sutherland. The competition was initiated in 2016 by BCPA Life Member Andrew Bonar and is being continued by the BCPA at Andrew’s request following his passing in October 2017.

Donations will be accepted on our BC Cancer Foundation donation page found here: Donate to BC Cancer Foundation

Donations will also be accepted in-person on the evening of the event.

2025 Music Requirements

This year’s musical requirements are created by Andrew Bonar. Players will play a 20 minute recital of tunes of their choice, however, within the 20 minutes, players must include the following – 

• Ground of a Piobaireachd
• At least two, two-parted Strathspeys
• At least one four-parted 4/4 march
• At least one tune in 9/8 time
• At least one tune written by Andrew Bonar or a tune from Boney Music Book 1

Players may tune as often and as long as they feel necessary. However, the tuning time is included in the recital time limit so the longer the player tunes the less time that the player has to perform.

We are happy to accept donations to the Boney Music Memorial invitational Fund to help BCPA to put this event on in the future. Use the Donation button to go to our donation site. Mention that the money is for the Boney or BMMI (Boney Music Memorial Invitational)

Donate to Boney Music Memorial Invitational Fund

To watch real time livestreaming of the event, go to  https://www.facebook.com/bcpipers

The livestream will appear at the top of the Facebook page starting at 6:45 pm Pacific Time (20 minutes before the official programme starts)

To watch delayed real time high resolution videos of each performance, go to  https://www.youtube.com/bcpipersassociation

Parking is available both on site and street parking. Enter the parkade through the East gate from 1st.  Entry is through the Hoffmeister Building parkade, 1755 W 1st Ave, Vancouver, BC . Once parked, go down the staircase at the northwest corner of the parkade, across the military parking lot to the doorway indicated by the arrow. From there we will have signage and Seaforth troops assisting and directing the way to the Anderson room. For anyone with accessibility needs, Seaforth troops can provide access through the Hoffmeister building, which has ramps and automatic doors.  

Thank you for your support on behalf of the B.C.P.A. and the Bonar family