Lochaber Juniors Entry Details

Ken Cameron: ‘Please see the attached Competition Entry Form for this year’s Junior competition and I would be grateful if you would include it on Piping Press. ‘This year we are re-introducing Drumming competitions after a short lapse and have re-classified them as Open instead of Confined as previously.’ Scroll down for other pages. Download the entry form here. Last year’s winners at this very well run event are pictured…

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Tom Dingwall’s Funeral

Tom’s family have issued the following: Funeral arrangements for Tom have been confirmed. It will be 11.30 on Wednesday, 13th February, at Clydebank Crematorium. We will be going on afterwards for a shindig (still hammering out those details between us so I’ll confirm where when I know). We encourage anyone with pipes, fiddles, drums, tin whistles, guitars – whatever you have to bring them along. Dad’s life was his pipes…

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Piping & Drumming in Schools – One Band’s Fight for Survival

By Alister Rae, Secretary, West Fife Schools Pipe Band In response to the article entitled ‘Music Teaching in Scotland – Is New Ruling More Hot Air or a Wake Up Call’, I thought I’d enlighten Piping Press readers about the situation in West Fife.  There are very few opportunities in West Fife to learn piping or drumming in schools. My understanding is that St Columba’s High School in Dunfermline and Lochgelly…

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Photo Journalist John Kelly Dies Suddenly

It is with considerable sadness that we report the sudden passing of our Northern Ireland pipe band correspondent John Kelly. He was 71 and had been very active right up to his passing. John’s last dispatch, on a Burns Supper at Titanic Belfast, featured on PP only yesterday. In it John, from Lisburn, was photographed showing no sign of illness. His passing has shocked the Northern Irish pipe band community…

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