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…
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…
Moira Demesne provided the perfect setting for the 2017 Lisburn & Castlereagh City Pipe Band Championships on Saturday 5th August. Organised in partnership with the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association Northern Ireland Branch (RSPBANI), 48 pipe bands and 47 drum majors took part. Gilbert Cromie reports: Moira Demesne was the venue for the Lisburn and Castlereagh City Pipe Band Championships and despite a heavy shower of rain after the last…
Seven played but a very high standard; cloudy then rainy conditions. Champion Piper Derek Midgley (r) is pictured above with Ceol Mor winner Dr Peter McCalister. Piob: Judge Archie Maclean 1 Peter McCallister 2 Derek Midgley 3 Ursa Beckford 4 Anna Kummerlow March: (LM Judge Iain MacFadyen) 1 Derek Midgley 2 Anna Kummerlow 3 Ursa Beckford 4 Craig Martin S/R: 1 John Angus Smith 2 Derek Midgley 3 Alan Clark…
From our correspondent in another (muddy) field, this time in Stirlingshire. Best band on parade were 4 Scots Royal Regiment of Scotland (pictured above)…. For those overseas bands making the jaunt from North Berwick via their accommodation in Glasgow, to BofA, there might have been precious little drying time for brogues, kilts and glengarries. On an overcast early morning, rain was expected later in the day and it arrived around…
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