Author: Robert Wallace

PP Editor’s Blog: White House Honour/ Craig Sutherland/ Easter School/ Drum Major Hughes

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Happy  St Patrick’s Day to everyone. John Kelly in Northern Ireland has sent this from his local paper: ‘A local piper helped kick off the St Patrick’s Day celebrations in the USA by playing at a special event hosted by President Barack Obama.  Grahame Harris, from Templepatrick, was among a small group of musicians from the Cross Border Orchestra of Ireland invited to play at a lunch hosted by Mr Obama…

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Important New Recording for PP Audio Archive

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Added to the growing PP Audio Archive today is a recording of Iain Speirs’ actual winning performance in the 2007 Northern Meeting Gold Medal competition. Iain’s tune is Lady Margaret MacDonald’s Salute and with it he completed his set of Gold Medals, having taken the Oban equivalent with the King’s Taxes in 2002. Since then Iain has become one of our most sensitive and cultured interpreters of ceol mor, winning…

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PP Editor’s Blog: Poll Results/ SPA KO/ Janet’s Funeral/ Copenhagen/ Calum recital

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Our poll on the best band never to have won a World Championship title proved very popular with hundreds of opinions lodged. Participants were asked to choose between four bands, P/M Harry McNulty’s Power of Scotland band of the 1980s, P/M Ian Duncan’s Vale of Atholl, P/M Craig and Ross Walker’s Boghall and P/Ms Davy Barnes and Robert Mathieson’s Polkemmet. As the table below shows the winner was Boghall (pictured…

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Scottish Schools Pipe Band Championships

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Here are the full results from yesterday’s very successful fourth annual Scottish Schools Pipe Band Championships held at Broughton High School, Edinburgh: Grade 1st 2nd 3rd Juvenile George Watson’s College Dollar Academy Preston Lodge High School Novice Juvenile ‘A’ Dollar Academy North Lanarkshire Schools George Watson’s College Novice Juvenile ‘B’ Lochalsh Schools George Watson’s College Knox Academy Junior ‘A’ St Columba’s School Gordonstoun School Fettes College Junior ‘B’ Ullapool High School…

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RSPBA Give Green Light to Adjudicator Consultation

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The following proposals were recommended by the Board of Directors and approved at the RSPBA’s AGM:  Critique sheet moving from duplicate to triplicate form – this means the judges can retain a copy for their own use during a competition the other two copies handed over to Association officials. Two major championships, the Europeans at Forres and the UK in Belfast, will pilot a scheme whereby judges have the option…

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