Author: Robert Wallace

Festival of Juvenile Solo Piping 2014

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Festival of Juvenile Solo Piping Saturday, 18 October 2014 Auchenharvie Academy, Stevenston, Ayrshire, run by the Caledonian Piping Club 10  & Under Chanter 1 Billy Smith​, Corberry Park Pipers ​2 Finan Harkness​​, Midlothian ​3 Katie Roy​, Irvine & District PB ​4 ​Molly Robertson, ​Corberry Park Pipers ​ ​11 & Under Chanter 1 ​Calum Ramsay​, Caledonian Piping Club ​2 ​Scott McDonald,​ Caledonian Piping Club ​3 ​Connor McBlane, ​Greenwood Academy ​ ​11…

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World Solo Drumming (updated comment and pix)

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Steven McWhirter of Inveraray and District won his fifth World Solo title today at the championship held in Glasgow Caledonian University. His accompanist was his pipe major, Stuart Liddell. Drummers play to selections: Hornpipe and Jig and March, Strathspey and Reel with the latter gaining more points. Runner up to Steven was Michael McKenna from St Laurence O’Toole. Ireland (north and south) took three of the top places, Canada one,…

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PP Editor’s Blog Additions

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New comment re Northern Meeting Dress and Deportment: ‘My late piping instructor of 25 years, Jimmy Greig (Edinburgh Police, Clan MacFarlane Pipe Band) learned his piping from 1945 to 1952 in the 1st Battalion The Black Watch, under Pipe Major James Jenkinson.  Jimmy once described his former P.M. to me as….’ Read more here… [easyrotator]erc_75_1413484305[/easyrotator] Bob Worrall has re-affirmed the link for the Glenfiddich streaming: ‘Here’s how to access the Live…

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PP Editor’s Blog 17/10/14

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All eyes on Glasgow tomorrow for the Andante sponsored World Solo Drumming. 150 sides and 50 tenors all vying for the top awards in their grades. Everything kicks off at 9am in Glasgow Caledonian University with the Adult Hornpipe & Jig final at 3.15pm and the Adult MSR final at 4.30pm. Judges for the former are Gordon Parkes, Sandy Steele and Joe Noble. MSR judges are Ciaran Mordaunt, David Brown…

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New Feature: The Day We Won the Worlds

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By Robert Wallace We read, and see, plenty about the big boys (and girls) and their triumphs in the Worlds Grade 1 – and deservedly so. Yesterday, for example, we printed a full list of all the winners of this coveted title and some photographs, and judging by your response it has been very well received. But what about the rest of us? Those Worlds winners who had just the…

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