By The Editor With the World Pipe band Championships over for another year the international piping focus switches from bands to solos and in particular to today’s Argyllshire Gathering at Oban. The Gathering is one of the two main piping competitions in the world; only next week’s Northern Meeting in Inverness rivals it in importance in the solo piper’s calendar. (Tickets for the NM are now on sale here.) Contests…

Our man on a mission has followed Grade 2 all season, knows the bands inside out (the same as his socks). Let’s wind back a few days to the Worlds where he can be found with his good ear to the ground watching and listening, that helmet no impediment to his pertinent postulations….. Greetings from the sun kissed and simultaneously drenched arena 2, perched on the teeny tiny stand on…

The last two weeks have been so busy that we have been unable to publish details of some events. Here’s a catch up: Mey Highland Games, Caithness, August 3Angela Nicholson, Piping Convenor: ‘It was a scorching hot day (very unusual for Caithness!) and everyone had a great time. In the picture [above] judge Stuart Webster presents Callum Clark with the Alistair Norquay Memorial Challenge Cup, given for most points in…

Four competed in the seniors. Dry all afternoon, although rain threatened to blow across the Moray Firth and douse the pipers at several points. If any reader has the junior results please forward.   Piobaireachd: 1 Matt Pantaleoni (Lament for MacSwan of Roaig) 2 Gordon Barclay (The King’s Taxes) 3 John MacDonald (Tulloch Ard) 4 Yann Rizzo (Desperate Battle)   March: 1 Matt Pantaleoni 2 John MacDonald 3 Yann Rizzo…

The weather held out for most of the day with a couple of heavy showers at the end of the competition. Five played in the juniors and eight in the seniors. Piob1 Sandy Cameron2 Dan Lyden3 Archie Drennan March1 Jason Craig2 Dan Lyden3 Sandy Cameron S&R1 Dan Lyden2 Archie Drennan3 Angus Nicolson U17 Piob1 Archie Clark2 Laura Robertson3 Ruaridh Drennan U17 March1 Laura Robertson2 Ronald MacIntosh3 Ruaraidh Drennan U17 S&R1…