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Further Details on the 2025 Silver Chanter

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Craig Sutherland, now living in western Canada, is unable to travel to the 2025 Silver Chanter competition/ recital. Craig qualified by winning the Gold Medal at Inverness last year. His place will be taken by Angus MacPhee, runner-up in the Dunvegan Medal 2024. Other invitees are Nick Hudson, Texas, (Inverness Clasp), Alasdair Henderson, Dunoon, (Snr. Piob. Oban), Derek Midgley, New Jersey, (Dunvegan Clasp), Sandy Cameron, Roy Bridge, (Dunvegan Medal), and Cameron Drummond, Edinburgh,…

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Worlds Ticket Price Increases Spark Reaction

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Readers have responded with considerable anger to yesterday’s story of ticket price hikes at the Worlds. Here is a selection: Mark J: ‘Ticket prices are terribly high. Add on to that not being allowed to take any liquids at all into the park. Last year even sealed bottles and cans of soft drinks were prohibited. Water bottles had to be emptied and filled from the ‘water points’ inside the park…

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Aberdeen Games and Corgarff Games Results

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Piping Convenor Fraser Maitland reports from yesterday’s (June 15) Aberdeen Games….Thankfully the rain held off despite a yellow weather warning for the North East. Interesting to note a higher turnout in juniors than in seniors. According to a few competitors and parents, this was due to the addition of a new piobaireachd competition for U18s. Despite a few hiccups including a missing board for the senior MSR, and stewards balancing…

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Pipers for PS Summer Recital Announced

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The Piobaireachd Society’s Annual Recital of Ceòl Mòr will be held in St Cecilia’s Hall, Edinburgh, on Sunday, August 10. The title of the recital is ‘Classical Pipe Music – Scotland’s Hidden Treasure’. It is part of the Fringe Festival. The show starts 7 for 7.30pm and concludes circa 9.30pm. The pipers are (l-r above) Alasdair Henderson, Dunoon, John McDonald, Aberdeen, and Brodie Watson-Massey, Edinburgh. They’ll each play two tunes,…

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Know Your Judges: Bob Worrall

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Twenty five years ago Pipe Band Magazine began a series of interviews with pipe band judges. The first, in January 2000, was with Canadian Bob Worrall. The introduction to the series began like this…‘Love them or loathe them, judges are a vital part of our pipe band world…..we’ll be asking the men and women with the clipboards to reveal something about what they really know and feel about our music…..what…

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