Jacquie Troy
Associate Faculty
Victoria, British Columbia

Jacquie Troy has been drumming since age 8 under the tuition of her uncle, Colin Magee. John Fisher has also been a tremendous influence in her eighteen years of playing. Both of these gentlemen still continue to play a huge role in her drumming career.

The Vancouver Ladies primed Jacquie for the pipe band scene as she went on to play in the Grade 1 snare lines for Abbotsford Police Pipe Band and Peel Regional Police Pipe Band. A brief hiatus from snare saw Jacquie’s love for tenor come to life with the Toronto Police Pipe Band but soon returned to play snare for an outstanding corps with 87th Cleveland Pipe Band, the legendary 78th Fraser Highlanders and most recently with the Alberta Caledonia Pipe Band.

Along with the bands, she has also won numerous individual prizes throughout North America. This, coupled with approximately 10 years of Highland Dancing, provides Jacquie with a strong musical and rhythmical sense. It also gives her the ability to teach from a few different perspectives! Currently, Jacquie is involved with the Greater Victoria Police Pipe Band, Vancouver Island Piping and Drumming School Pipe Band and the Sir James MacDonald Pipe Band providing the instruction for both snare and midsections.

In 1998, the Troy family acquired the reed business from the world famous McAllister family of Shotts, Scotland. They continue to manufacture the McAllister pipe chanter reed to the McAllisters’ exact specifications. In addition to working in the shop making bagpipe reeds with her dad and brother, James W. Troy and James P. Troy respectively, Jacquie is putting her education in Fashion Marketing and Merchandising to good use at the Royal BC Museum.