Author: Robert Wallace

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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News: World Drumming, Letters, Highland Dress

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Tickets for the World Solo Drumming at Glasgow Caledonian University on Saturday are free. The Adult Final costs £5. Read more and book here…… A nice leter has been received from Canada. Read here… The second, and final instalment in Bill Blacklaw’s highly informative (and necessary for some!) article on how to wear Highland dress concludes here……  

P/M George Ackroyd contest South Africa (updated)

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The results from Saturday’s P/M George Ackroyd contest, held at the Transvaal Scottish Regimental HQ in Johannesburg were as follows: George Ackroyd Challenge Overall 1st Gareth Rudolph George Ackroyd Challenge Overall – Best Junior 1st Brandon Holz George Ackroyd Challenge Piobaireachd Adjudicators : Thomas Knobel, Struan Young 1st Gareth Rudolph 2nd Brandon Holz 3rd Chris Couperthwaite 4th Alex Jeanrenaud (8 competed) George Ackroyd Challenge Strathspey & Reel Adjudicator : Roger Davies 1st Gareth Rudolph 2nd Nicholas Taitz 3rd Alex…

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News: NI Piper of the Year Critique

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This contest, run by the Northern Ireland Piping Society, was held in the ballroom at the Adair Arms Hotel in Ballymena, and despite a hum from the cooler behind the bar, it proved an ideal venue for a piping competition; plenty of floor space, plenty of audience space and a draughtless ambience. There were very few listeners in for the piobaireachd in the afternoon  (not unusual, even in Scotland) but the…

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