The Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association has published the draws for the second and third major pipe band championships of the 2019 season. The first, the UK Championships, will be held on June 15 in Lurgan, Northern Ireland. A total of 101 bands will take part, the majority in grades 4A and 4B.
The full draw is available here. Here is the list for Grade 1 with the time each band will play at:
1 13:45 Fife Police
2 13:55 Boghall
3 14:05 Glasgow Skye
4 14:15 Shotts
5 14:25 PSNI
6 14:35 Lomond and Clyde
7 14:45 Johnstone
8 14:55 SLOT
9 15:05 Scottish Power
10 15:15 Glasgow Police
11 15:25 Inveraray
12 15:35 Field Marshal Montgomery
G1 judges are as follows: Harry Stevenson, Thomas Brown, Ciaran Mordaunt, Jim Baxter. G1 bands will submit two medleys at Lurgan
Last year saw St Laurence O’Toole (above) lift the title from Inveraray in second, with Field Marshal in third. St Laurence will be looking to continue their good start to the season after their big win at the British at Paisley.
[wds id=”8″]Two weeks later the bands do battle again, this time in the European Championships to be held in Inverness. The venue is the Highland capital’s Bught Park and the date June 29.
A total of 120 bands will participate including Australian visitors Scotch College Melbourne, Knox Grammar School, Sydney, Scotch College, Adelaide and Prebyterian Ladies College, Sydney.
European Championship Grade 1 draw and times:
1 14:00 Glasgow Skye
2 14:10 Inveraray
3 14:20 Lomond and Clyde
4 14:30 Johnstone
5 14:40 Field Marshal Montgomery
6 14:50 St Laurence O’Toole
7 15:00 PSNI
8 15:10 Boghall
9 15:20 Glasgow Police
10 15:30 Scottish Power
11 15:40 Fife Police
12 15:50 Shotts
G1 judges for this championship: Donald MacPhee, Tony Sloane, Stuart Coils, Jennifer Hutcheon. Bands will submit two MSRs in G1. Full draw for the Europeans here.
Last year’s winners of the Europeans were Inveraray & District with Field Marshal second and Scottish Power third. Inveraray were guest band at last Saturday’s West Lothian Highland Games, Bathgate (above).
Prizemoney at these championships will be as follows:
