Cowal Solos – ‘B’ Piob Added

‘A’ Grade light music champion Gordon McCready is pictured above. ‘A’ Piob 1 Alistair Lee 2 Stuart Easton 3 James MacHattie 4 Cameron MacDougall 5 Derek Midgley ‘A’ March 1 Gordon McCready 2 Alistair Lee 3 Ben McClamrock 4 Steven Gray 5 Andrew Lee ‘A’ S&R 1 G McCready 2 S Gray 3 Alistair Lee 4 B McClamrock 5 Andrew Lee ‘B’ Piob 1 Finlay Cameron 2 Zephan Knichel 3…

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Argyllshire Gathering Picture Gallery from Two Days of Wonderful Piping

Two days of quality piping in Oban, and here are some pictures which we hope will be enjoyed by those who attended and those who couldn’t make it. The picture above is of the Gathering’s own 2018 chuckle brothers, Silver Medallist Darach Urquhart and Gold Medallist Stuart Easton. Their pipes are adorned with the winners’ banners supplied by MacDonald Bag Covers. The banners are retained by the pipers. The gallery:…

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Argyllshire Gathering Day 2 – Light Music Results

Day Two at the Argyllshire Gathering saw the bulk of the ceol beag events taking place at a wet Mossfield Park, Oban. The competing pipers were led there by the winner of the Gold Medal from yesterday Stuart Easton. Results from the second day at Oban: ‘A’ March Final 1 Connor Sinclair 2 Sarah Muir 3 Callum Beaumont 4 Ben Duncan 5 Ashley McMichael 6 Sean McKeown Judges:  I MacFadyen,…

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The Editor’s Reflections on Day 1 at the Argyllshire Gathering

Oh the tears, the happiness…..there was the new Gold Medallist Stuart Easton crying his eyes out, consoled, (consoled!) by his Kiwi colleagues. Stuart had just phoned home to tell his wife that all that travel and expense had been worth it. He was a Gold Medallist.  Mid sob Stuart was able to blurt out a few words: ‘I’ve worked so hard for this’ sniff, ‘I can’t believe it’, sniff, ‘it’s…

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Argyllshire Gathering 2018 Results: Complete Results from Day 1

Four of the major piobaireachd competitions in world piping were held today in Oban, Argyll. Stuart Easton from New Zealand became the seventh winner of the coveted Gold Medal from that country. Winner of the Senior Piobaireachd was Stuart Liddell (pictured above). Darach Urquhart from Kyle won the Silver Medal. All results below. Andrew Ferguson, a piper with Dollar Academy, won the MacGregor Memorial for intermediate ceol mor. Other results as…

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