Steel Thistle Pipes and Drums

Steel Thistle Pipes and Drums is a grade four pipe band from the suburbs of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
History
Founded by Pipe Major Patrick Regan, the goal of the Steel Thistle organization is to create a local pipe band for the education of young pipers. Patrick Regan also founded a bagpipe camp run every summer as the Bluebonnet School of Piping and Drumming. Each year, students from the region travel to take part in a week-long instructional session at Carrick High School in Pittsburgh, which has in the past featured such notable instructors as Angus J. MacLellan and James Wark.
In the early- to mid-2000s, the band proved that it could compete with the best grade four bands in the world. It traveled to Scotland and placed in the top twelve on its first trip to the Novice Juvenile category of the World Pipe Band Championships. During its time in Scotland, the band competed in several competitions and took prize honors at a few of the local Scottish Highland Games, including a second place at the Callander Highland Games in Grade IV, and third place in the "challenge-up" to Grade III.

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