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retire from his position as leading drummer, and that corps member Blair Brown would be his replacement. but in his own statement
Kilpatrick stated that his removal from the band was "the final act in a long-running, premeditated and well-planned coup d’état orchestrated by Ryan Canning, Blair Brown, Glenn Brown and perhaps three other members of the Shotts band." Emmett Conway took over as pipe major of the band in late 2018.
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British Championship on the first attempt. After a suspension of competitions during the
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