Author: Robert Wallace

Editor’s Notebook: Worlds All Set/ Gold Medal Hero/ Island Bands Plea/ Lonach Axemen

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Well who’s your money on? Boghall, Inveraray and Field Marshal have one major each this season. SFU were brilliant by all accounts the other evening. If SLOT up their game they could figure, as could the Power. And don’t rule out Shotts taking the top prize. Remember when Ryan Canning surprised everyone not so very long ago? One thing is sure, after four legs and the opinions of 16 judges,…

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Newtonmore Games Results

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Editor’s Notebook: 100 Pipers Band/ Results Mix Up/ PS Recital/ Piper Wanted/ Gold Medal Hero

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Reader Gordon Smith: ‘I’ve sent you an old picture of the 100 Pipers Whisky pipe band taken outside a Chivas factory building in Paisley. I’m not sure if it’s a thread you would pursue. Pipe Major was the late Donnie Thomson, ex-Shotts, far left of pic. Leading drummer Alan Craig far right, with well known bass drummer Ian Macmillan in back row.’ Thanks very much for that Gordon. Would any…

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Scottish Pipe Band Championships 2023 Review

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I had long advocated for a change in the siting of the competition arenas at Dumbarton, so there was some satisfaction in discovering just that. No longer are the bands exposed to the full, raw blast from the Clyde estuary. Now they are snuggled away in Levengrove Park’s pleasant greenery, well protected from the elements.  The only disadvantage to the new Grade 1 circle is that the final tuning area…

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Arisaig Games Results (updated)

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A glorious, sunny day on the west coast with 21 playing in the seniors and five in the juniors. Overall Champion Piper was Fred Morrison (pictured) with Angus MacColl close behind. Piobaireachd1 Fred Morrison, Earl of Seafoth’s Salute2 Angus MacColl, Lament for Mary MacLeod3 Darach Urquhart, Rout of the Lowland Captain4 Angus MacPhee, Fair Honey5 Finlay Frame, Tulloch Ard March1 Angus MacColl2 Fred Morrison3 Andrew Hall4 Angus MacPhee S&R1 Angus…

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