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Field Marshal Are Scottish Pipe Band Champions

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Field Marshal Montgomery Pipe Band, Northern Ireland, are the new Scottish Champions after a hard fought contest at a warm, dry Levengrove Park, Dumbarton. The win gave P/M Richard Parkes his second championship of the season. His win sets up a Champion of Champions showdown with Inveraray as we head to the Worlds in August. Both bands have two majors apiece. The other G1 places went to: 2 Inveraray3 Boghall4 Shotts5…

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Arisaig Games Results

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There can’t be a better setting for a Highland Games that at Arisaig in the West Highlands. A good dry day for piping. Piobaireachd 1 Brian Lamond2 Angus MacColl Snr.3 Finlay Cameron4 Decker Forrest5 Gregor MacDonald March1 Angus MacColl2 Finlay Cameron3 Brian Lamond4 Decker Forrest Strathspey & Reel1 Angus MacColl2 Decker Forrest3 Finlay Cameron4 Dan Nevans Jig 1 Finlay Cameron2 Gregor MacDonald3 Angus MacColl 4 Dan Nevans Arisaig Challenge Cup for Piobaireachd:…

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Editor’s Notebook: BAG School/ Inveraray Games/ Judging/ Argylls Book/ US Contest/ British Legion 1971

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I am in Germany for the annual Bagpipe Association of Germany School at Breuberg Castle in the Odenwald about an hour south of Frankfurt. A great team of instructors including drummer Carel Ooms who taught with me in Denmark 25 years ago, and Dixie Ingram, retired RSPBA judge and Scots Guardsman. Dixie has been coming here for 30 years and tells me he is just back from a fortnight at…

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Dunvegan Medal Draw/ Chatsworth Entry Details

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The prestigious Dunvegan Medal for MacCrimmon Piobaireachd will take place at this year’s Skye Gathering from 8.30am on August 2. The venue is the Skye Gathering Hall in Portree. The list of entrants is already oversubscribed with a waiting list being held in reserve. The running order is as follows: Gordon Barclay 1 Andrew Donlon 2 Andrew Hall 3 Anna Smart 4 Greig Canning 5 Jamie Elder 6 Andrew Ferguson…

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Ten Years After – the Worlds Revisited

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The World Pipe Band Championship looms large yet again – thank goodness. We thought readers might be interested in what the Editor wrote about the contest in 2012. The winners that day were Field Marshal Montgomery pictured above….. Field Marshal Montgomery are World Champions yet again, a record eighth win for P/M Richard Parkes. In terms of the Worlds it makes him the second most successful pipe major in history…

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