Welcome to Stromness RBLs Pipe Band new web site. We are delighted to unveil our new site which has been entirely
constructed by members within the band. The Stromness Pipe Band is more than just a Pipe Band of course, with our very own
dedicated Highland Dance Group. We also have close links to various music groups and artists in Orkney.
The band was formed in 1980 through the enthusiasm of the late Bill Baillie, an Occidental Oil Company
employee on the Flotta Oil Terminal. The band's membership initially came from the Flotta workforce and
took the name Occidental Pipe Band, and then later the Claymore Pipe Band, after one of the oilfields supplying
Flotta. The band then extended its recruitment beyond the workforce and obtained new sponsorship from the Stromness
branch of the Royal British Legion in 1985 and took on its present name.
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