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City of Tauranga is a band with a strong and an increasing local base of players from Bay of Plenty and Waikato. Several families are represented by two or more players and there are two families with five members in the band. The Pipe Major is Lance Torrington who is in the role for the second time. The Drum Sergeant, newly on board in 2026 is Shaun Bourhill.
The band tartan is Roxburgh Red, a modern tartan from the ancient borough of Roxburgh in the Scottish Borders. The tartan was adopted by the band for the new Millennium.
The band marked its centenary in 2014 and by the 1970s was one of the country’s top Grade 2 bands. In 1982, they won Grade 2 and were promoted to Grade 1. However, fortunes fluctuated in the following years and by the late 1990s the band was in Grade 4.
After winning Grade 3 in 2023, the band moved up to Grade 2.
Monday night 7pm at Otumoetai Primary School hall, Otumoetai Rd, Tauranga