Added to the growing PP Audio Archive today is a recording of Iain Speirs’ actual winning performance in the 2007 Northern Meeting Gold Medal competition. Iain’s tune is Lady Margaret MacDonald’s Salute and with it he completed his set of Gold Medals, having taken the Oban equivalent with the King’s Taxes in 2002. Since then Iain has become one of our most sensitive and cultured interpreters of ceol mor, winning…
Our poll on the best band never to have won a World Championship title proved very popular with hundreds of opinions lodged. Participants were asked to choose between four bands, P/M Harry McNulty’s Power of Scotland band of the 1980s, P/M Ian Duncan’s Vale of Atholl, P/M Craig and Ross Walker’s Boghall and P/Ms Davy Barnes and Robert Mathieson’s Polkemmet. As the table below shows the winner was Boghall (pictured…
Here are the full results from yesterday’s very successful fourth annual Scottish Schools Pipe Band Championships held at Broughton High School, Edinburgh: Grade 1st 2nd 3rd Juvenile George Watson’s College Dollar Academy Preston Lodge High School Novice Juvenile ‘A’ Dollar Academy North Lanarkshire Schools George Watson’s College Novice Juvenile ‘B’ Lochalsh Schools George Watson’s College Knox Academy Junior ‘A’ St Columba’s School Gordonstoun School Fettes College Junior ‘B’ Ullapool High School…
The following proposals were recommended by the Board of Directors and approved at the RSPBA’s AGM: Critique sheet moving from duplicate to triplicate form – this means the judges can retain a copy for their own use during a competition the other two copies handed over to Association officials. Two major championships, the Europeans at Forres and the UK in Belfast, will pilot a scheme whereby judges have the option…
The above picture is of three doughty Scots Guards pipers (l to r) P/Sgt Jimmy Banks, Iain Wood and P/M Angus MacDonald. It looks as though the picture was taken in the early 1970; venue unknown. Jimmy and Angus are well known to everyone in the piping world but I would be grateful for more on Iain Wood who I’m afraid I don’t know. Reminder: entries for the Highlands &…
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