The Bermuda Islands Pipe Band (BIPB) was formed in 1993 from the unification of the Bermuda Cadets Pipe Band and the Bermuda Pipe Band. The older of the two parents began in 1955 as the Pipes and Drums of ŒA' Company, Bermuda Cadet Corps. On the disbanding of the Corps in the early 1960's, the Band continued as a body of civilian volunteers under the name of the Bermuda Cadets Pipe Band. Wearing the Regimental Gordon tartan, the Band's first public performance was in the Remembrance Day Parade in 1956 when they began a tradition of leading the war veterans on and off parade.

The younger parent, the Bermuda Pipe Band, began in 1959, proudly wearing the Prince Charles Edward Stuart ("Bonnie Prince Charlie") tartan. Composed at first largely of members of the Bermuda Police and Prison Services, and other local enthusiasts, including some formerly in the Cadets Pipe Band, they were soon performing at the Police Passing Out and ceremonial parades, a tradition maintained by the BIPB to this day.

Over the years, they performed at every major hotel in Bermuda, as well as aboard various cruise ships and at visitors’ cocktail parties, dinners, and dances. Another still active tradition of the BIPB began in 1963 with the weekly performance by the Cadets Pipe Band of the "Skirling Ceremony" at Fort Hamilton. Another long-established relationship began in 1965 with both predecessor Bands and now the BIPB appearing with the Band and Corps of Drums of the Bermuda Regiment in the Beating of the Retreat Ceremonies in Hamilton, St. George, and the Royal Naval Dockyard.

The BIPB has an equally strong tradition of representing and promoting Bermuda internationally having performed overseas on 18 occasions in the United States, Canada, Scotland and Germany. In 2003, the Band proudly promoted Bermuda at the Nova Scotia International Tattoo. The Band, bearing the Bermuda standard before it, has twice appeared in New York City leading other pipe bands. The Band's most recent international performances came in January, 2005, at the Musikschau der Nationen in Bremen, Germany and in 2007 at the Virginia International Tattoo in Norfolk.

The Band's international exposure offers important benefits. It places the name and image of these islands before international audiences and it also improves the quality of the Band. As a result of the Halifax (2003) and Bremen (2005) appearances, the Band has not only been invited for return engagements, but, additionally, to appear in tattoos in Birmingham, UK and Hamburg, Germany.

The Bermuda Islands Pipe Band wishes to give all the visiting performers a warm welcome to this 400th Anniversary Celebration.