A couple of weeks ago we launched a poll asking the following question: Should all competing pipers have to belong to the CPA before they get to compete in Scotland? From the answers below a significant majority of respondents don’t believe in a Competing Pipers Association hegemony and there was not much in it between those who do and those who believe the promoters should decided who gets to play. Here are…
The RSPBA has announced the adjudicators for the Major Championships for the 2016 pipe band season. Judges for the Grade 1 Worlds are: Qualifier 1: Campbell, Young, Mordaunt, N Russell Qualifier 2: G Wilson, Garrett, Dinsdale, Snadden G1 MSR Final: MacShannon, Wark, Steele, MacInnes G1 Medley Final: Stevenson, Ronaldson, G Craig, Hutcheon Get the full lists for the other grades and all other championships here. Read about G1 Medley Final…
Details have been announced about the Uist & Barra Professional contest to be held on March 5. Invited pipers are as follows: Callum Beaumont, Glenn Brown, William Geddes, William McCallum, Niall Stewart, Gordon Walker, Angus MacColl, Gordon McCready, Finlay Johnston, Roderick Macleod, Stuart Liddell, Cameron Drummond, Faye Henderson, Alasdair Henderson, Iain Speirs. Judges for all three events (ceol mor, MSR, H&J): Ian Duncan, Stuart Shedden and Andrew Wright. Admission £12….
Following on from yesterday’s ‘Choice Tune’, Lord Alexander Kennedy, and a letter from Walter Drysdale, we have his obituary and additional information about the tune’s composer, James Honeyman, and its subject. The picture above is of the 42nd Regiment (The Black Watch) in 1852, while stationed at the Citadel in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Lord Alexander Kennedy was an officer in the regiment and James Honeyman a piper. It is likely Honeyman,…
Our focus today is on the 2/4 pipe march Lord Alexander Kennedy. Now more popular with bands than soloists, it is nevertheless a classic of the genre. ‘Lord Alex’ lends itself to innovation and re-write, and many versions of the tune have appeared and been performed over the years. What I’m presenting today, however, is a copy of the original tune as written by the composer, James Honeyman, and passed…
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