Month: October 2015

PP Editor’s Blog: Edith Cavell/ Nicol-Brown Contest/Gold Medal Tunes

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Many will have read yesterday of the 100th anniversary of the death of heroine  Nurse Edith Cavell, executed for spying during WW1. She had served in a hospital in Belgium and treated Allied, German and Austrian soldiers but was executed by a German firing squad on October 12, 1915. Her death prompted outrage in Britain with thousands subsequently inspired to join up for the war effort.  Miss Cavell is buried at Norwich…

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National Mod Piping Results (updated with Pictures, Audio, Video and Comment)

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Robert Wallace: Jonathan Greenlees emerged as Champion Piper at the National Mod piping competitions held in Oban on Saturday. Jonathan won the Ceol Mor with Lament for Donald Duaghal MacKay and placed third in the MSR to take the overall prize. Only eight pipers competed in the senior events although 14 had entered. The standard was mixed but the prizewinners in the above events all played well with Jonathan’s Donald…

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Captain JA MacLellan Contest Entries Now Open/ Shotts , Falkirk Contests

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WO1 Martin MacDonald, Senior Instructor at the Army School of Bagpipe Music and Highland Drumming has sent this: ‘We  will be holding the third Captain John A. MacLellan MBE Piping Championship at Inchdrewer House, Redford Barracks, Edinburgh on the 14th of November this year. As usual the competition will cover C, B and P/A Grades for both Piobaireachd and MSR and also an Open Hornpipe and Jig. Entries will be taken through…

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PP Ed’s Blog: British at Paisley/ Canada’s Sherriff Contest/ Glenfiddich

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Most people have been very pleased with the RSPBA’s decision to opt for Paisley as the host for next year’s British Pipe Band Championships – and for 2017/18. What it does mean is that three of the major championships on the RSPBA calendar are now being held in west-central Scotland: the Worlds at Glasgow Green, the Scottish at Dumbarton and now the British at Paisley. Belfast gets the UK Championships…

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PP Ed’s Blog: Piper of the Year/Mod Piping/Roseneath/SHGA

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Champion piper Gordon Walker will be in Northern Ireland this weekend for the ‘Piper of the Year ‘ competition. Kenny Stewart of the organising committee has sent this:  ‘The annual Piper of the Year competition will be held in the Adair Arms Hotel, in Ballymena, on Saturday 10th October 2015. The Piobaireachd competition will commence at 12.30pm with the MSR and Jig & Hornpipe resuming at 7.00pm. The adjudicator for…

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