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PP Ed’s Blog: Angus’s Funeral/ Shotts Contest/ Fergie Book/ Trad Awards

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The dates for Angus Nicol’s funeral in Oban and mass in London have now been set: Tuesday 18th October – Oban RC Cathedral: Funeral Mass: 11.30am followed by Kilninver interment and Knipoch Hotel wake . Friday 21st October – Brompton Oratory: Requiem Mass: 11am with wake afterwards at St Wilfrid’s Hall. Angus, a great lover of piping and self-taught Gaelic speaker, died last week after a long bout of ill health. Throughout his life he did a great deal…

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Pipe Bands: Police have First Practice/ Medley Harmonies/ World Solo Drumming

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Greater Glasgow Police Scotland Pipe Band have held their first band practice with new leading drummer David Henderson at the head of the corps with a ‘very positive’ outcome. The GGPS corps is still largely intact despite the recent upheaval following the departure of long-serving Eric Ward. Of the nine side drummers that played with the band at the World Pipe Band Championships in August, six have stayed with the…

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PP Ed’s Blog: Former Winners’ Tunes/ Logan’s Publishers/ Uist & Barra History

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Listening to part of the Former Winners’ MSR at the Northern Meeting this year I was struck by the number of comparatively easy tunes some pipers are submitting. All great tunes of course, but is Mrs MacDonald of Dunacht suitable for this level? And whilst I love Donald MacLeod’s music I’m not sure that some of the reels such as Drumlithie are as much of a test as, say, eight parts…

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Australian PB Champs Results – WAPOL Victorious/ PBA President Responds to Recent Suspensions

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Western Australia Police Pipe Band, P/M Jim Murray, took all the main prizes on the second day of the  in today’s Australian Pipe Band  Championships Grade 1 contest held in Sydney. They were placed first for the main contest, for drumming and dress & deportment. Grade 2 main prize and drumming went to the Pipe Band Club Australia. Held every two years, the Australian Pipe Band Championships is the country’s…

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Angus Nicol 1933 – 2016

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The death has been reported of Angus Nicol of the Highland Society of London. He was 83. Angus died peacefully at a hospice in London. He had been in poor health for some time. A self-taught Gaelic speaker and lover of pipe music, Angus was a fixture at all major piping events throughout his life. Of an Argyll family, he first attended the Argyllshire Gathering in 1936 aged three. In…

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