RSPBA Music Board Regradings for 2019

Bruce Cargill of the RSPBA Music Board has announced the following changes for the 2019 pipe band competition season: UPGRADES Novice Juvenile B to Novice Juvenile A Saint John’s College (Zimbabwe) North Lanarkshire schools Novice Juvenile A to Juvenile Dollar Academy No 2 Oban high school Grade 4B to 4A Gransha Mid Argyll Lower Clyde Pipes and Drums Kelty & Blairadam (By Request) Grade 4A to 3B McNeillstown Lochryan Dunbar…

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Draw for the Scots Guards KO

Scots Guards Club 2018/19 Knockout Draw 4pm each date at Scots Guards Club Haymarket Edinburgh  0131 3371084 25 November: Cameron MacDougall  v Jonathan  Simpson 09 December Alan Clark    v    Ross Miller 27 January Calum Watson  v John Dew 24 February Willie Rowe  v  Calum Brown A toss of a coin for order of play on the day. A draw for the semi final will be done in February. Format is 30 minutes…

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Piping Tutor’s Job in Clackmannanshire

The local council had issued the following…….:Applications are invited for a post of Bagpipe Tutor (Youth Music Initiative) Clackmannanshire Council. Based in the Alloa cluster, you will deliver whole class group tuition to P6 pupils in three primary schools. The appointee will be an established practitioner in the delivery of such tuition. They will have proven ability to engage creatively with a varied cohort of students, and a commitment to…

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Kilmarnock Pipe Band Has New Team in Charge (updated)

The band have sent this….Kilmarnock Pipe Band have a vision to see a much needed quality pipe band in Ayrshire once again.  To achieve this they have recruited Paul Warren as Pipe Major. Paul has had pipe majoring success in the past when he took Lomond and Clyde from the bottom of Grade 4 to the top of Grade 2 in under a decade. Paul brings with him Karen McCrindle…

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Pitlochry Games Results

The sun split the sky on this last games of the Scottish summer, writes the Editor. The entry was low however. Discussions on a piobaireachd event have been held with the promoters once more. Pitlochry is an hour and a half from both Glasgow and Inverness. A ceol mor competition should attract a decent number of pipers we pleaded. Positive response. An area of the picturesque park has been identified as…

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