SPA Professional, Glenn Brown Recital, CLASP

The draw for Saturday’s Scottish Pipers’ Association Professional competition has been issued by President Tom Johnstone. The competition will be held in the College of Piping in Glasgow from 9am.

Following on from it, in a very busy day the SPA, will be another of their popular and well-received illustrated lectures on pipers and pipe tunes of World War 1. This National Lottery supported event has free admission and Saturday’s lecture, at the same venue, features author Colin Campbell and pipers Niall Stewart and Iain Speirs. Not to be missed.

Competition order of play –  Piobaireachd                                      

1. Graham Mulholland 2. Chris Armstrong  3. Steven Leask
4. Jamie Elder 5. Lachie Dick 6. Jonathan Greenlees
7. Darach Urquhart  8. Peter Hunt 9. Steven Gray
10. Ben Mulhearn 11. Graham Drummond  12. William McCallum
13. Ben Duncan 14. Peter McCalister 15. William Geddes
16. Michael Fitzhenry 17. Gordon Bruce (the double Silver Medallist is pictured above)  18. Andrew Wilson
19. Michael Elder 20. Keith J Bowes  21. J Ross Cowan
22. Katherine Belcher

MSR
1. Steven Gray 2. Darach Urquhart march only 3. J Ross Cowan 

4. Stuart McCallum 5. Lachie Dick  6. Andrew Wilson 

7. Graham Mulholland  8. Katherine Belcher 9. Graham Drummond

10. Michael Fitzhenry 11. Ben Duncan 12. Gordon Bruce

13. Peter McCalister 14. Jamie Elder 15. William Geddes strathspey & reel only

16. Ben Duncan 17. Michael Elder

 

 Former Winners MSR
1. Winner of March 2. Jonathan Greenlees 3. Darach Urquhart
4. Steven Leask 5. Winner of S&R 6. Chris Armstrong
7. William Geddes 8. Peter Hunt 9. William McCallum

Judges for the Ceol Mor are Ronald MacShannon and Tom Johnstone and for the Ceol Beag Ian McLellan and Andrew Frater.
The competition and lecture will be Livestreamed. There are so many piping events being broadcast on this medium these days that those interested might like to open up their own account and get piping notifications sent directly to their computer or smart phone.  You can do so using the link above.

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One piper who won’t be competing is Glenn Brown. Glenn is giving a recital for the Inverness Piping Society at Tulloch Castle, Dingwall, on Friday (April 17) at 7.30 for 8pm. Contact invernesspipingsociety.co.uk for more info.

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In an unfortunate clash of dates, the National Piping Centre is staging the latest in its CLASP competitions for amateur pipers on the same day as the SPA (beginning 9.30am). The draw is below. The Centre has also announced that Friday’s ‘Tradition Bearers’ recital which was to feature Colin MacLellan and Jimmy Banks, has been postponed. Anyone who has bought tickets will be due a refund or a transfer to a new date (tba).

Here is Saturday’s CLASP draw:
Grade 2 Light Music