Author: Robert Wallace

PP Editor’s Blog: Hamish Henderson/ Virginia Tattoo/ Murray Henderson/ Funding for Youngsters

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Terrific programme the other night on the late Scottish poet, songwriter and folklorist Hamish Henderson (left). Well done to Producer Alasdair MacCuish and his Bees Nees team, and to broadcaster MG Alba for a real quality show which did the great man full justice. Poignant film of the late Martyn Bennett on smallpipes accompanying Hamish on ‘Freedom Come All Ye’ and remarkable, historic footage of the Pipes and Drums of various…

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PP Editor’s Blog: Grampian Placings/ Roddy Ross/ BB Letter/ Piobaireachd Analysis

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Patricia Grant has sent the final placings in the John Milne Fine Arts Grampian Games Association Piping League 2016. Well done to all those pipers, junior and senior, who supported these important north-east games. Patricia writes: ‘It is encouraging to see that there are new names appearing on the League placings and hopefully the efforts of the Grampian Games Association to promote all aspects of Highland games is paying off.  I know that…

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Police Scotland Issue Statement on Greater Glasgow Police Pipe Band Drum Corps

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Police Scotland have issued the following statement to Piping Press regarding the recent announcement of the departure of Eric Ward as Leading Drummer of the Greater Glasgow Police Scotland Pipe Band. It reads: ‘Statement from POLICE SCOTLAND MEDIA SERVICES which was endorsed at Assistant Chief Constable Level: ‘A decision was made recently by Inspector Niall West, the Officer in Charge of the Greater Glasgow Police Pipe Band, to appoint a new…

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Hugh ‘Baggy’ MacMillan/ Duncan MacDiarmid/ Side Lights Review

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We regret to have to report the passing of London stalwart Hugh ‘Baggy’ MacMillan and of Duncan MacDiarmid, of the Atholl Highlanders. On Hugh, Roddy Livingstone of the Scottish Piping Society of London has sent this: ‘Former SPSL President Hugh ‘Baggy’ MacMillan passed away after a short illness in Croydon University Hospital in the early hours of Wednesday 7th September. ‘He was born into a piping family, his father Malcolm…

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Eric Ward Stands Down at Greater Glasgow Police Pipe Band

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Greater Glasgow Police Scotland Pipe Band have announced that Eric Ward is no longer Leading Drummer of the band. P/M Iain MacPherson has issued the following statement: ‘The band recognises with gratitude his massive contribution over the last 21 years, which has been a key factor in the band’s success over that period. ‘Eric is, without doubt, a legendary name in pipe band drumming and his very high standards of rudimentation…

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