Competitors have been announced for the Donald MacDonald Cuach Piobaireachd Competition held on Sleat, Skye. The competition is now in its 33rd year. It takes place in Armadale Castle Stables Café on June 7 and will be livestreamed via their website and Facebook page. Tickets are available in advance (£10, under 16s free). The pipers and tunes will be: Callum Beaumont – A Ghlas-mheur (The Fingerlock) Glenn Brown – Sean…

Inverclyde District Council, the promoters of one of the first pipe band contest of the season at Gourock, have sent this… International interest is building in the Gourock Highland Games with enquiries from tourists from as far afield as Spain, France, Canada, Australia and the United States. Many of the visitors are planning their itineraries around the games and are looking for accommodation in the local area. The annual event,…

Alan Bevan won the Open Piping aggregate and Jack Lee captured the MacCrimmon Memorial Cairn for Open Piobaireachd at the 2019 BCPA Annual Gathering on April 19 & 20 at North Delta Secondary School, Delta, BC, writes BCPA President Robert MacNeil. With his win, Jack has won the Cairn 14 times across five decades. Grant Maxwell won the Open Snare Drumming aggregate. In Grade 1, Tori Killoran won the Piping…

Zephan Knichel of Surrey, BC, won the Competing Pipers Association B Grade Piobaireachd event at the British Columbia Pipers’ Association Annual Gathering on April 19, 2019, writes BCPA President Robert MacNeill. With the win Zephan qualifies for the Silver Medal at the 2020 Argyllshire Gathering and 2020 Northern Meeting. Brad Davidson of Waterloo, Ontario, captured the CPA C Grade piobaireachd event. Full results were:CPA B Grade Piobaireachd Silver Medal Qualifier1….

By L/D Arthur Cook Following on from recent articles regarding females in the piping and pipe band world, the Glasgow Skye Association Pipe Band have recruited a new bass drummer and additional tenor drummers for the 2019 season. This now gives the band its first all female bass section comprising of a bass and seven tenor drummers. This may be the first all female bass section in Grade 1?  With…