Some say his birls are legend, or maybe just leg end, others that he knows more about crop circles than the band variety….all we know is he’s called MacStig… Cometh the hour, cometh the band, although my spell check almost had ‘comets’… some of these bands are just like that – flashes of brightness and close to the edge. Adjudicators on duty for Grade 2 were Messrs Semple, Worrall, Mordaunt…
The organisers of the Donald MacDonald Cuach competition have sent this: Finalists have been announced for two prestigious traditional music competitions to be held at Armadale Castle, Gardens & Museum of the Isles this June. The Donald MacDonald Cuach piobaireachd competition, now in its 32nd year, will bring together five renowned pipers from across Scotland on 15 June. The following day introduces a major new competition for Senior Clàrsach, where…
I arrived at Paisley around lunchtime on Saturday and after a coffee, picked up a programme (free) and headed over to the Grade 1 arena for the 2pm start of the British Pipe Band Championship . Readers will know all the usual caveats about the audience not being as close as the judges are to the bands, extraneous chatter etc, etc and this should be borne in mind when they read this…
Scottish Power Pipe Band were declared the new British Pipe Band Champions today at a sun-drenched St James Playing Fields in Paisley. The other G1 places went to: 2 Inveraray 3 FMM 4 SLoT 5 Boghall 6 Fife Police with the drumming going to: Inveraray. Each band had to submit two Medleys, one of which was chosen at the line. The judges in Grade 1 were Robert Mathieson (ensemble), Robert Shaw…
The first major championship of the pipe band season, the British, are underway at the St James Playing Fields, Paisley, with 126 bands vying for honours across all grades. The RSPBA’s superb team of judges, stewards and officials were on duty from early morning and the first band performance begins at 10am. Grade 1 begins at 2pm, the bands playing in the following order: 1 Buchan Peterson 2 Glasgow Skye 3…
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