Invitational Player Profiles
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Glen-mary Christopher
Glen-mary lives with her spouse, two teenagers, and three cats in the small town of Coronach in southwest Saskatchewan, where she works as a nurse practitioner providing full-time health care services to three rural communities. She started piping at age seven with the PPCLI Army Cadet pipe band in Estevan. After high school, she took a 27-year piping hiatus for education, family, and athletics - completing every triathlon distance from sprint to Ironman. During the pandemic, she had a mid-life piping crisis and joined the City of Regina Pipe Band. She has been busy making up for lost piping time since then.
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Greg Bowen
Greg Bowen began piping in the early 2000s under the instruction of Bruce and Adam Annandale, and currently studies with Michael Grey. Piping has long been a family tradition, which sparked his early interest and continues to inspire his playing today.
He is in his 4th year competing with the 78th Fraser Highlanders Pipe Band and has had recent success on the solo circuit. In 2024, he won the Grade 2 Champion Supreme title in light music after a 20-year hiatus from regular solo competitions, and he was named Amateur Piper of the Day at the Cambridge Highland Games in 2025. This past year, was his first season ever competing in piobaireachd.
Away from the games, Greg works as an IT Engineer specializing in identity and security. He enjoys fishing, tinkering with smart home automation, and spending time with his partner Taylor and their two cats, Charlie and Tula, at their home in Waterloo, Ontario.
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Jonathon Kalyn
Jonathon has been playing the bagpipes for about six years. Piping has been a great passion of his. He started playing when he was 11 years old and since then he has played across Canada from British Columbia to Nova Scotia.
Jonathon has been the Alberta Society of Pipers and Drummers aggregate winner for grades 4, 3, and 2, and he is currently competing in grade 1. Jonathon is the pipe sergeant of, the Foothills Caledonia Youth Pipe Band of Calgary.
This will be his first time competing at the PPI.
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