By Mike Rogers Congratulations to all the participants in the 33rd annual United States Piping Foundation Amateur and Professional Piping Championships, held in memory of founder Maclean Macleod on 15 Jun 2019, in the Amy DuPont Music Building at the University of Delaware, Newark, DE! In the Amateur events there were 7 pipers from throughout North America, and 14 in the Professional events.   The adjudicators for the Amateur Competitions…

The annual UK Pipe Band Championship moved to a wet Lurgan Park in Northern Ireland today. The results in Grade 1 were: 1 SLOT2 FMM3 Inveraray4 S Power5 Boghall6 Fife Police with the drumming going to SLOT. St Laurence achieves straight 1s in all judging categories. They are captured celebrating below in this office shot by photographer Lee Bisset: The other grades:G21 Closkelt2 Ravara3 Manorcunningham4 MacKenzie Caledonian5 Annan6 Buchan PetersonDrums:…

The 2019 Northern Meeting will be held from August 29 – 30 in Eden Court Theatre, Inverness. The promoters have today issued all competitors with the running order in each competition.

Last Saturday (June 8) the Civil Service Grounds at Stormont were the venue for the Belfast Pipe Band Championships on what was a dull day with the light rain only coming for the closing stages. There was an entry of thirty five bands and drum majors watched by a good attendance of spectators which looked smaller due mainly to the large but immaculately kept grounds on which the competitions took…

Tom Johnstone SPA President: ‘Not a great turnout again last night [Saturday, June 8]. Callum Beaumont won by the narrowest of margins over Cameron MacDougall. Both players played exceptionally well and managed to fit some piobaireachd into their selections. ‘Next heat is Sept 7th when Sarah Muir vs Steven Leask. The venue will again by the National Piping Centre, Otago Street. All welcome.’Tom is pictured with Cameron (l) and Callum…