{"id":1040,"date":"2023-11-21T15:11:34","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T07:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pipebandsaustralia.com.au\/westernaustralia\/2023\/11\/21\/in-appreciation-brett-tidswell\/"},"modified":"2025-05-17T14:33:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T06:33:49","slug":"in-appreciation-brett-tidswell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pipebandsaustralia.com.au\/westernaustralia\/2023\/11\/21\/in-appreciation-brett-tidswell\/","title":{"rendered":"In Appreciation: Brett Tidswell"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Pipe Bands Australian would like to acknowledge and recognise the service and commitment of the outgoing National Principal of Piping, Mr Brett Tidswell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brett has served as Principal for over two decades and has been responsible for developing and implementing a significant portion of the Association&#8217;s current training, policy and practices during that time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As head of the National Piping Panel, Brett has led from a position of experience as an accomplished player in both the band and solo arena, a skilled Pipe Major and band leader, an expert tutor, teacher and mentor of both adult and youth players, and finally as a sought-after adjudicator for all aspects of our art form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His contribution in all areas has been immense, and we express our deep gratitude.<br><br>The Association would like to wish him well for the future and look forward to his continued contributions to pipe banding in Australia in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pipe Bands Australian would like to acknowledge and recognise the service and commitment of the outgoing National Principal of Piping, Mr Brett Tidswell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1041,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,23],"tags":[35,33,34],"class_list":["post-1040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-auscollege","category-national","tag-piping","tag-national","tag-college"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pipebandsaustralia.com.au\/westernaustralia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pipebandsaustralia.com.au\/westernaustralia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pipebandsaustralia.com.au\/westernaustralia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pipebandsaustralia.com.au\/westernaustralia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pipebandsaustralia.com.au\/westernaustralia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pipebandsaustralia.com.au\/westernaustralia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pipebandsaustralia.com.au\/westernaustralia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pipebandsaustralia.com.au\/westernaustralia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pipebandsaustralia.com.au\/westernaustralia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pipebandsaustralia.com.au\/westernaustralia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}