The RSPBA website is back up after a few hours down for essential maintenance. The new draw for the Scottish Championships to be held at Dumbarton on July 25 is announced as:
Grade 1 – Final
01 14:15 Peoples Ford – Boghall and Bathgate Caledonia
02 14:25 Cullybackey
03 14:35 Denny and Dunipace Gleneagles
04 14:45 Shotts and Dykehead Caledonia
05 14:55 Inveraray and District
06 15:05 Scottish Power
07 15:15 Police Scotland Fife
08 15:25 Greater Glasgow Police Pipe Band
09 15:35 Vale of Atholl
10 15:45 Field Marshal Montgomery
11 15:55 St Laurence O’Toole – Eire
12 16:05 Ravara
Adjudicators:
Samuel Young
James Wark
Gregory Dinsdale
John MacInnes
The draw for the European Championships at Forres a week on Saturday is:
Grade 1 – Final
01 15:00 Peoples Ford – Boghall and Bathgate Caledonia
02 15:10 Inveraray and District
03 15:20 Cullybackey
04 15:30 Scottish Power
05 15:40 Greater Glasgow Police Pipe Band
06 15:50 Denny and Dunipace Gleneagles
07 16:00 Vale of Atholl
08 16:10 Shotts and Dykehead Caledonia
09 16:20 Field Marshal Montgomery
10 16:30 Police Scotland Fife
11 16:40 St Laurence O’Toole – Eire
Adjudicators:
Cameron Edgar
Robert Pollock
Gordon Craig
Alan Ronaldson
For other grades check here. There are band contests this Saturday at Lurgan in Northern Ireland and at Lochore in the Kingdon – the most important one of the day our Fife friends tell us – and Lesmahagow near Glasgow. On Sunday we have contests at Aberdeen (band and solo) and Helensburgh.
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Piobaireachd enthusiasts may be interested in the first of our features on the John MacDougall Gillies MS. In today’s illustrated article we look at a letter from Gillies to Archibald Campbell, Kilberry, and discuss the playing of Robert Reid and the ‘redundant A’. MacDougall Gillies is pictured up top from a painting done in his early days as a young competing piper.
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