Our story on the 1968 Cowal Gathering sparked a deal of interest. The winners in Grade 1 that day were the Edinburgh Police and Allan J MacDonald, Glengarry, Ontario, wrote: ‘I’ve come across the attached photo [above] that might be of interest to your readers.  It was slightly damaged but captures the Grade 1 bands at the Fergus Games, held a short distance from Toronto, in 1972. ‘Many Scottish bands were…

Following on from reader Trevor Clydesdale’s list of the tunes submitted for the Grade 1 1970 ‘Medley’ Worlds, reader Ian Forbes asked for a programme from yesteryear showing the MSRs bands played back then. Within a few hours another reader, who asked not to be named, sent us in the 1968 Cowal programme. It makes interesting reading, writes the Editor. Notice the iconic cover which was used for many years…

Braemar Gathering staged a sort of kid on games on Saturday, crowdless but with participants filmed in each discipline, the whole to be broadcast online later this month. Aberdeen piper John MacDonald did the needful at the piping bench with an MSR and a rendition of the Glen is Mine. I am not sure what the purpose was, probably just to keep everyone’s interest in the old gathering alive. Those…