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Heart of Down Contest Brings Curtain Down on the NI Branch Season

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Donard Park in Newcastle, County Down, was the setting for the Heart of Down Pipe Band Championships, the final event of the RSPBANI Branch outdoor competition season and also the conclusion of the 2022 Champion of Champions league calculated on the five competitions over the summer.  The competition had the largest entry of bands and drum majors at any local contest this season and there was also a largely attended…

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Masters Solo Piping Results

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This competition was held today in the National Piping Centre in Glasgow as part of the Piping Live festival. Overall winner was Callum Beaumont on a piobaireachd preference. He is pictured above with his trophy. Seventeen entered in the light music and 16 in the piobaireachd. The competition is only open to Gold medallists and winners of ‘A’ grade light music events at Oban and Inverness. Piobaireachd1 Callum Beaumont, Lament…

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Mallaig & Morar Games Results

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Nine competed in cold, drizzly conditions on the far west coast. Piob: 1 Andrew Donlan2 Angus MacPhee3 Brian Lamond4 Fraser Allison March1 Andrew Donlon2 Angus MacPhee3 Brian Lamond4 Alistair Brown Strathspey & Reel1 Brian Lamond2 Andrew Donlan3 Chris McLeish4 Andrew Smith Hornpipe & Jig1 Andrew Donlan2 Brian Lamond3 Angus MacPhee4 Hector Munro Champion Piper: Andrew Donlon (pictured)Judge: A Maclean

Aboyne Games Results

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There was a bumper crowd of about 12,000 at Aboyne today, writes Jack Taylor. Calum Brown from Cults, Aberdeen, was overall champion with firsts in March, Strathspey and Reel, Hornpipe and Jig and fifth in Piobaireachd. Calum also piped for the dancing and is due to play a solo at Inveraray Pipe Band’s concert on Wednesday in Glasgow’s Royal Concert Hall. Under 18 Piobaireachd 1 Alistair Williams, Massacre of Glencoe2 Craig…

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Newtonmore Games Results

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Seven played in blustery conditions in the land of Calum Piobair. Piobaireachd winner P/M Ben Duncan is pictured with the Dr Kenneth Mackay Piobaireachd Trophy. Piobaireachd (3 tunes)1. P/M Ben Duncan (Lament for the Children)2. Angus MacPhee (Old Men of the Shells)3. Callum Wynd (End of the Great Bridge)4. Matt Pantaleoni Judge: John Don MacKenzie March (3 tunes)1. Angus MacPhee2. P/M Ben Duncan3. Matt Pantaleoni4. Callum Wynd Strathspey & Reel (3…

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