By Alison Gilmour Entries for the Scottish Piping Society of London Online Competition are now open! On the weekend of 7th November, the Society is excited to be hosting its first online competition. Entries are open to C Grade competitors (Piobaireachd and MSR) as well as Amateur players and SPSL members (Piobaireachd, March, Strathspey and Reel, and 6/8 March). There will be a specific prize in the Amateur competition for Best…
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…
Shotts at the 2019 British. Will there be a return in May 2021? Who would disagree with yesterday’s comments by Gilbert Cromie that we need some forward planning if we are to save the 2021 pipe band season? I would go further and ask that the RSPBA form a ‘Task Force 21’ to examine all of the potentail problems, to offer solutions and to do so from a positive, ‘can…
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