Category: Bagpipes

PP Editor’s Blog: Band Formation Poll Results/Grampian League/ / Festival of Juvenile Solo Piping etc.

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A couple of weeks ago I ran a piece lauding the organisers of the Chicago Highland Games for instituting concert formation for their band competition. The accompanying poll results can now be revealed. We asked the question ‘What do you think of the circle formation for band competition’. The results show an overwhelming majority in favour of change – a huge 88%. The response ‘Couldn’t be better; leave well alone’…

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Newtonmore Games

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The weather was a mixed bag of cold, wind, rain, and the odd bit of sunshine.  Jimmy Jackson and Duncan MacDiarmid judged the light music while John MacDougall and John Don MacKenzie had the piobaireachd.   Piobaireachd: 1 Derek Midgley (Patrick Og) 2 Matt Pantaleoni (King’s Taxes) 3 Sandy Cameron (MacLeod of Raasay) 4 Jamie Forrester March: 1 Jamie Forrester 2 Matt Pantaleoni 3 Sandy Cameron 4 Jonathan Simpson S/R:…

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Aboyne Games (updated)

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Bright but cold day on Royal Deeside. Healthy turnout of pipers. Fifteen played in light music; 17 in ceol mor. A very successful day for piper Gordon McCready (pictured with David Wilton). Piob: 1 G McCready (Lady Mgt. MacDonald’s Salute) 2 U Beckford 3 A Russell 4 G Canning 5 D Watson Judges: N Mathieson, M McRae, W Wotherspoon March: 1 G McCready 2 A Russell 3 J Greenlees 4…

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Piping Live Details Announced

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Piping Live begins a week on Monday and the organisers have sent this flyer: Buy D Naill Solo Blackwood Pipe Chanter (inc. any tax & mailing), from   [wds id=”16″]   Click on the link up top or anywhere on the flyer for more information and tickets. [wds id=”17″]

PP Editor’s Blog: Games Attendance/Bands at Bridge of Allan

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There are some pretty simple solutions the Competing Pipers’ Association could enact to solve the poor turnouts at our Highland games. I hope I am not overstating the problem, but when only handfuls of pipers are turning up at the likes of Taynuilt, Lochearnhead, Markinch, Luss, Tobermory, we need to do something. Inveraray, by contrast, can attract 35 for its B grade events, 27 for the C and a healthy entry for…

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