Honours
The Field Marshal Montgomery Pipe Band is one of the most successful pipe bands in recent history. The band has won a total of 51 major championships, namely 13 Scottish Championships, 9 British Championships, 10 European Championships, 8 World Championships, and 11 Cowal Championships. Further, the band has won 22 Ulster Championships, 20 All-Ireland Championships, and gained 11 RSPBA Champion of Champions titles. Since its first Grade 1 prize at a major championship in 1990, the band has never been out of the top six at a major championship, finishing in the prize list in 112 consecutive championship competitions.
The Field Marshal Montgomery Pipe Band was also the first band outside of Scotland to win the Argyll Shield at the Cowal Championship in 1990, the first and only band from Northern Ireland to win the Grade 1 World Pipe Band Championship, and in 1993 became one of only three bands in history to attain a clean sweep of all five major championships in a single year, known as the "Grand Slam." (The others being The House of Edgar - Shotts and Dykehead Caledonia Pipe Band and Strathclyde Police Pipe Band ) By winning the Cowal Highland Games in August 2011, Field Marshal Montgomery Pipe Band became the first band to complete the Grand Slam twice.
On 3rd December 2011 Field Marshal Montgomery was named Pipe Band of the Year at the 2011 MG Alba Scots Trad Music Awards.
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