Month: December 2015

PP Editor’s Blog: National Juvenile Pipe Band Fund/ Archive Recordings/ Archie Kenneth/ SPA KO etc

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A meeting will be held this weekend to decide on the disbursement of the first grants from the RSPBA’s National Juvenile Pipe Band Fund. The fund was launched last World’s Week. It’s aim is to help young bands who are struggling to find the cash for competition buses, instruments and  tuition. Most of these bands receive  nothing from the public purse at all and it was to try to redress…

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National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland ‘400%’ Concert – Eden Court Theatre, Inverness

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This concert gets many cheers.  For the repertoire  an imaginative mix of old and new.  For the piping – what talent, musicianship, dexterity and dedication.  For the backing  –  enhancing,  not overpowering.  For the playing –  exciting, but not hysterical.  For the sound – bright and solid.  No wonder a packed Eden Court enthused.   Pipe Major Sandy Spence by Gordon Duncan started the show.   Compere Alasdair McLaren observed that…

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Recordings of Bob Brown and Jimmy McIntosh added to PP Archive

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We start today with some very interesting archive material. Firstly we have a recording of Bob Brown, Balmoral, playing two 2/4 marches, Abercairney Highlanders and the 74th’s Farewell to Edinburgh. The recording comes to us courtesy of Patrick Molard in Brittany. Patrick recorded Bob when he was a pupil of his (Patrick of Bob not Bob of Patrick!) in the early 1970s. What do we learn? Firstly I think it…

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