Skye Gathering: Silver Chanter, Kemble Star, P MacFarquhar Star, Clasp, Dunvegan Medal Results (Updated)

The Dunvegan Medal is one of our most important piobaireachd awards. Pipers have to submit four tunes from a list of MacCrimmon or MacCrimmon-related tunes. There was a mixed standard of play today with many pipers struggling with their instruments. Twenty-two played. The picture above shows the 2017 medallist Ian K.MacDonald from Toronto. Ian gave an outstanding performance of the classic Lament for Donald Ban MacCrimmon. Stay tuned for comment from the…

CLASP Grade 3 World Amateur Solos

Margaret Dunn reports: Here are our results for CLASP grade 3, World Solo Amateur Piping Competition at Piping Live!.  Held today, 8th August, at St Aloysius Convent. The winner, John Bertino, is pictured with adjudicator Brian Switalla. Grade 3 Piobaireachd  1st  John Bertino 2nd Alfred Graf 3rd Stephen Whitton Grade 3 Piobaireachd (Ground) 1st John Bertino 2nd Alfred Graf 3rd Andrew Richardson Grade 3 – 2/4 March 1st John Bertino…

Weekend Grade 2 Round-Up and Look Ahead to the World Championships

Some say the only tunes he knows are the ones he takes when he has a cold….others suspect he is a band bus driver on the make, even more that he’s the pay of the RSPBA. All we know is he’s called MacStig…… Phew! That was the weekend that was. To be dubbed the ‘wet and wetter weekend’, as band enthusiasts and bands tried to cram in both main Scottish…

McCallum Bagpipes Announce Free Piping Recital

Four of the country’s top pipers will perform a free recital tomorrow courtesy McCallum Bagpipes as part of World’s Week. The picture above is of one of the recitalists, Gordon McCready. Proprietor Stuart McCallum has sent this: ‘McCallum Bagpipes presents a FREE recital with four of the top pipers on Wednesday [Aug 9] at 2:00pm @ the Street Café [at the National Piping Centre]. ‘Come along and enjoy music played…