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PP Editor’s Blog: Pipe Band Magazine/Classic Piobaireachd/ SPA/ Piob Soc Conf.

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The latest free, digital edition of Pipe Band Magazine will be available from tomorrow. The front cover has a super picture of the new World Champion Pipe Major, Ryan Canning of Shotts & Dykehead. Inside there is an interview with Ryan and another with his Leading Drummer Jim Kilpatrick. In addition the magazine has an extensive picture gallery of Worlds winners. The magazine, the official publication of the RSPBA, then…

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Iain Dall MacKay Memorial Ceremony 2015

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Leading on from yesterday’s contest (new pic of the junior winners added by the way) we had a ceilidh in the Old Inn, Gairloch, with plentiful food and comfortable accommodation provided by sponsor/proprietor Alastair Pearson, writes Robert Wallace. The music was sustained by the hugely talented MacGillivray family with Iain on fiddle and bodhran, Anya on clarsach and songs (beautiful voice), and dad Duncan on guitar, pipes, low whistle and…

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Daniel Laidlaw VC/ Inverness Junior Piping/ Blackthorn Pipers/ Whisky Galore

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As part of its WW1 commemoration series, the BBC has published a good wrap up on Piper Daniel Laidlaw VC, KOSB. There’s an interview with his grandson Kevin Laidlaw. Kevin, also a piper, went to Loos in 2005 for the 90th anniversary of the battle. He says: ‘I stood out and played The standard on the Braes o’ Mar which was the regimental charge of the Kings Own Scottish Borderers, which…

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PP Editor’s Blog: All Ireland Solos/ Whisky Galore/ 24 Renfrew Street

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To Dublin tonight for tomorrow’s All-Ireland Solos.The Championships are under the joint auspices of the Irish Pipe Band Association  and the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association (Northern Ireland Branch)  and will be held in Trinity Comprehensive  School, Ballymun, Dublin. For those going along, Piping is at 10am and Drumming at 11. Here are the current champions:  Senior Piping: Ashley McMichael, Field Marshal Montgomery Senior Drumming: Michael McKenna, St. Laurence O’Toole Piobaireachd A: Graham Drummond,…

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PP Editor’s Blog: Monktonhall Pipe Band/ New England Camp/Worlds etc

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Thanks to Les Hutt, Inverness, for reminding me of the Glenurquhart and Invergordon Games tomorrow (see Comments). There’s certainly plenty of opportunity for pipers this Saturday to get out and have a tune and I  hope as many as possible will take advantage of the last few weekends of the games. Les’s old band were the Monktonhall Colliery and he learned his piping under Willie McBride, a fine piper and a first…

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