After several years of teaching young musicians here in Vernon, there were enough bodies to put together a small youth band. Under the guidance and instruction from Pipe Major Don MacLeod of the Kalamalka Highlander's and the drumming tutoring of Drum Sergeant Neil Morrison, the group gelled together. Grace MacLeod and Peanut Simpson were added to teach tenor and bass. The group worked in the basement of the Royal Canadian Legion and now it was decided to make the group "official".

In September of 2008, we started practicing at the "House of Dwarfs" Daycare Center and became an offical band. The parents formed an advisory group and the youth were taken under the wing of the Kalamalka Highlanders Pipe Band. It was decided that the young band needed a name and identiy of its own, but still wanted to be recognized as part of the adult band. It seemed only too fitting to have the group named in memory of a young lad who was a huge part of the drum corps of the Kalamalka Highlanders in the late 1990's and early 2000's. Arran Campbell led the KHPB drummers at a very young age, taught many adults and was a role model for many young drummers here in Vernon. He left our band and played for the World Champion Simon Fraser University Pipe Band for several years. Arron was with the band when they won the World's when he was only 13 years old! He won the North American Solo Drumming Championships when he was 16. In 2001, Arran joined the L.A. Police Pipe Band. He was only in Los Angeles for one week, when he died tragically in a motor vehicle accident at the age of 18.

Arran is greatly missed and we have chosen the name "Arran Campbell Memorial Youth Pipe Band" in his honour.

 ACM wears the district tartan Portree of Skye, with burgundy fleece sweaters and Grey Tams.  At present the band has 6 pipers,  a bass drummer, 5 tenors and 2 snare drummers.   The pipe major of the ACM band is Cory Hodgson.