Eyes were firmly on the silverware in the Piping Championships at the Royal National Mòd in Glasgow yesterday (Oct.10), writes Corrie Campbell. Pictured above are senior winners Ben Duncan and Angus MacPhee with their trophies.
Angus, from Inverness, took the Pìobaireachd in the Premier & A Grade, while Ben, from Edinburgh, won the Premier & A Grade March, Strathspey and Reel.
Glasgow-based Kyle Shead (below left) lifted the Sheelah J Nicol Memorial Trophy for the B Grade Pìobaireachd and Callum Carn (below right), who is from New Zealand but now living in Glasgow, triumphed in the B Grade March, Strathspey and Reel.
In the Junior Piping, 16-year-old Morla Bruce, from Glenalmond College in Perth bagged the W.G.G Wilson Trophy for the 16-18 Pìobaireachd, and Isle of Skye’s Seonaidh Forrest won the Royal Highland Fusiliers Cup for the 16-18 March, Strathspey and Reel.
In the U16s competitions, 15-year-old James Silcock from Falkirk took first place across three Under 16s competitions, clinching the Dr DS MacLaggan Memorial Trophy in the Pìobaireachd, the Roderick Munro Quaich in the 2/4 March competition and finally, the Lighting Electrical Cup for his Strathspey and Reel.
In the Junior Piping, 16-year-old Morla Bruce, from Glenalmond College in Perth bagged the W.G.G Wilson Trophy for the 16-18 Pìobaireachd, and Isle of Skye’s Seonaidh Forrest won the Royal Highland Fusiliers Cup for the 16-18 March, Strathspey and Reel.
In the U16s competitions, 15-year-old James Silcock from Falkirk took first place across three Under 16s competitions, clinching the Dr DS MacLaggan Memorial Trophy in the Pìobaireachd, the Roderick Munro Quaich in the 2/4 March competition and finally, the Lighting Electrical Cup for his Strathspey and Reel.
15 year-old Ollie Kemp from Preston Lodge High School was awarded first place in the under 16s Jig, taking home The Falkirk Tryst Trophy.
P/A Piob: 1 Angus MacPhee 2 Calum Carn 3 Sandy Cameron
P/A MSR: 1 Ben Duncan 2 Bradley Parker 3 Gordon McCready
B Piob: 1 Kyle Shead 2 Keith Bowes 3 Bradley Parker 4 Calum Dunvar 5 Andrew Smith
B MSR: 1 Calum Carn 2 Jonaothon Simpson 3 Arran Green 4 Keith Bowes 5 James McPetrie
16-18 Piob: 1 Morla Bruce 2 Charlie Mack 3 Dòmhnall Eachain MacGilleathain
16-18 MSR: 1 Seonaidh Forrest 2 Charlie Mack 3 Lily Robertson
16-18 H&J: 1 Seonaidh Forrest 2 Morla Bruce 3 Charlie Mack
U16 Piob: 1 James Silcock 2 Cailean Acamovic 3 Seonaidh MacGilleathain
U16 March: 1 James Silcock 2 Mirren Silver 3 Cailean Acamovic
U16 S&R: 1 James Silcock 2 Larry Presslie 3 Mirren Silver
U16 Jig: 1 Ollie Kemp 2 Jack Folan 3 Kirsty MacLean
* All pictures courtesy Elaine Livingstone.
