Competitions for the Highland Society of London’s Gold Medal will be held at the Argyllshire Gathering, Oban, on August 27th and 28th. Two weeks later pipers will vie for the same coveted award at the Northern Meeting in Inverness (September 11/12).
Places are restricted to 25. Pipers deemed eligible by the selection committee are as follows:
OBAN
Christopher Armstrong
Calum Brown
Glenn Brown
Sandy Cameron
Andrew Donlon
Ben Duncan
Brendon Eade
Jamie Elder
Alex Gandy
Nick Hudson
Steven Leask
Angus J MacColl
Cameron Macdougall
Ben McClamrock
John McDonald
Sean McKeown
Derek Midgley
Sarah Muir
John Mulhearn
William Rowe
Connor Sinclair
Innes Smith
Darach Urquhart
Calum Watson
Brodie Watson-Massey
INVERNESS
Calum Brown
Sandy Cameron
Andrew Donlon
Cameron Drummond
Ben Duncan
Brendon Eade
Jamie Elder
Jamie Forrester
Alex Gandy
Steven Leask
Angus J MacColl
Cameron Macdougall
Angus MacPhee
Cameron May
Ben McClamrock
John McDonald
Sean McKeown
Derek Midgley
Sarah Muir
John Mulhearn
Matt Pantaleoni
William Rowe
Darach Urquhart
Calum Watson
Brodie Watson-Massey
First reserve at Oban is Angus MacPhee, second Cameron May, third Matt Pantaleoni, fourth Andrew Carlisle and fifth James MacHattie. First reserve at Inverness is Andrew Carlisle with James MacHattie second.
Pipers submit four tunes from a list of tunes recommended by the Piobaireachd Society. The tunes can be found here.
John Campbell, Kilberry, Piping Steward at the Argyllshire Gathering, said: ‘Though several months away, everything is in place for this year’s Gathering. Yet again we have attracted the best pipers in the world to play in Oban. We look forward to welcoming everyone to the town to enjoy two wonderful days of quality piping.’
Successful Silver Medal candidates at Oban are as follows: Fraser Allison, Joe Biggs, Cameron Bonar, Keith Bowes, Ruairidh Brown, Kyle Cameron, Greig Canning, John Dew, Jacob Dicker, Austin Diepenhorst, Bobby Durning, Andrew Ferguson, Mike Fitzhenry, Edward Gaul, Eireann Ianetta-MacKay, Luke Kennedy, Liam Kernaghan, Zephan Knichel, Anna Kummerlöw, Dan Lyden, James MacPetrie, Ross Miller, Jonathon Simpson, Campbell Wilson, Callum Wynd.
Reserves in order 1-6: Ashley McMichael, Steven Gray, Ryan Praskovich, Ben Mulhearn, Edward McIlwaine, Alistair Brown.
Inverness has a similar SM list with the following changes: Fraser Allison and Austin Diepenhorst are not on the list for the SM at the Northern Meeting. Ashley McMichael and Steven Gray are both on the list. First reserve for the NM Silver Medal is Ryan Praskovich, followed by Ben Mulhearn, Ed MacIlwaine and Alistair Brown.
Again, pipers will submit four tunes from the Piobaireachd Society’s recommended list. Check out last year’s winners at Oban and Inverness here. Check out the lists of previous Gold Medallists here.
