It is with great regret that we report the passing of P/M RT Shepherd of Cardenden, Fife, and formerly of Dysart and Dundonald Pipe Band. Bob was 81 and had been ill for some time. Bob Shepherd was a double winner of the World Pipe Band Championship and proprietor of his own bagpipe making firm. His instruments won countless major awards. As a teacher Bob was unsurpassed taking boys from…

By Donald MacPhee My dad, Pipe Major Alexander “Sandy” Uist MacPhee, passed away on Thursday, October 24th, after contracting pneumonia. When doctors determined he had terminal oesophageal cancer in September, we knew he would not be with us next year. Still, we didn’t think we would lose him so suddenly and quickly. Sandy was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1932. Both his parents Alexandrina Edmonstone, from Plockton Wester Ross and…

The 7th annual Captain John A MacLellan MBE memorial piping championships were held at the Army School of Bagpipe Music and Highland Drumming at Inchdrewer House in Edinburgh today.  The event, one of the premier solo piping contests in the world, received a record entry once again with B & C grade contests full and the A & P grade contests also attracting a very strong entry.  By P/M Ross…

Kilmarnock Pipe Band have sent this…. We are delighted to announce that Dave Harling has been appointed as Leading Drummer. Dave has a wealth of experience in top level performance having spent the previous 3 years in Johnstone Pipe Band, 5 years in the Vale of Atholl Pipe Band and a year in Bleary and District Pipe Band. Dave said: “I’m delighted at having been asked to be part of…

1 Callum Beaumont, Daughter’s Lament 2 Jack Lee, Lament for John MacDonald, Inverness 3 Angus MacColl, Donald Gruamach’s March 4 Stuart Liddell, Donald Gruamach’s March 5 Finlay Johnston, Donald Gruamach’s March Judges: I Duncan, M McRae, I MacFadyen