Another successful competition was held in the Oban High School today (Sat, May 4). P/A Ceol Mor for Cooper Salver (1st) and Dugald MacColl Memorial Trophy (2nd).1 Sarah Muir2 William Geddes3 Sandy Cameron4 Cameron MacDougall5 Darach UrquhartJudges: A Maclean, J Taylor P/A MSR1 Ben Duncan2 Steven Leask3 Sarah Muir4 Allan Russell5 Darach UrquhartJudges: P Henderson, W Morrison B Ceol Mor1 Ben Duncan2 William Rowe 3 John Dew 4 Finlay Cameron…

Allistair’s funeral will be held at Charlotte Chapel, Shandwick Place, Edinburgh on Wednesday, May 8 at 12 noon. The intimation in the Edinburgh Evening News newspaper reads: ‘Sinclair, Allistair, Wm. peacefully at St Columba’s Hospice on April 28, 2019. ‘Beloved husband of the late Carol and father of Ewan, brother of Ian and Kenneth and uncle of the family. ‘Service Charlotte Chapel, Shandwick Place, Edinburgh, on Wednesday May 8 at…

The New Yorker magazine has published an article under the heading ‘William Barr’s Secret Passion: The Bagpipes’ with a sub heading ‘Dept. of Hot Air’. The magazine states mischeviously: ‘The Attorney General’s role in the City of Washington Pipe Band, which included Secret Service and FBI agents, may be the best evidence we have of a ‘deep state’. It reads……’This magazine has located five individuals who attest that Barr, who…

Better known these days as a prominent member of the RSPBA’s Adjudicator Panel, Sam Young from Australia was, in his early career, a student of piobaireachd. In this interview with the Editor he talks of how he started playing and of his lessons with Bob Nicol, Balmoral, one of the great figures in 20th century piping….. My father taught me the pipes when I was a boy of nine years…

Leading drummer Alex Connell died on Saturday after several months of ill health. He was 85. Alex was a legend in the pipe band movement and won eleven Worlds titles with the Strathclyde Police Pipe Band, eight as leading drummer and three as a corps drummer under L/D John Kirkwood. Today the band’s Pipe Major during those glory years, Ian McLellan, paid a heartfelt tribute to Alex. Said Ian: ‘Alex…