Erin Bell wins the top piping prize at 2025 Ottawa Amateur Knockouts

Ottawa—April 5, 2025—Jenny Hazzard and Colin MacLellan judged all the piping, and Mark Passmore and Kahlil Cappucino handled the snare and mid-section assessments, and, ultimately, it was Erin Bell of Ottawa who was the big pipng winner, taking the A Level Knockout and placing second in the Senior level Piobaireachd event, which Ottawa’s J.S. Gamache won.

The Rideau Canal Junior Ranks’ Mess, located in the downtown core of Canada’s capital, was the setting for the final rounds of the PPBSO’s Ottawa Branch Piping & Drumming Knockout Competitions, a staple of the region for decades.

Piping
A Level (Amateur Grade 1 & 2 – Ottawa Folklore Center Trophy)
1st Erin Bell
2nd Nico Gravel, Ottawa
3rd Noah Grew, Ottawa

B Level (Amateur Grade 3 & 4 – Ottawa Robert Burns Club Trophy)
1st Nolan Patrick Cunningham
2nd Aden MacIsaac

C-Level (Joan Matthews-Kahn Trophy)
1st Gabriella Doucet
2nd Jayden Lushman
3rd Jack Ryan

Drumming
Snare
B Level (MWO John B. Kerr Memorial Cup)
1st Ryan Seigmiller

C Level
1st Julie Umpherson

Tenor A (Kahlil Cappucino Trophy)
1st Andrea Jackson

Bass B (Kahlil Cappucino Trophy)
1st Claire Stanhope

A previous version of this story carried a mislabelled photo, and has since been updated. We apologize for the error.

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