About 400 people took part in the annual Octagonal Day street march, hosted by the Otago Centre of the Royal New Zealand Pipe Band Association, which began at the Dunedin Town Hall at 11am on Saturday. For Ashburton Pipe Band tenor drum player Lauren Wright the Octagonal Day march was her first big competition. She joined the pipe band in August after spending a lot of time on the sidelines watching her partner, Leighton Terry, play. She wasn’t alone, as a few other partners of the band’s pipe players decided to do the same. Their mother, Susanna Bishop, said they were there to support their father, who was marching for the ILT City of Invercargill Pipe Band.

Source: Otago Daily Times February 21, 2021 14:26 UTC