Category: Comment

Lochaber Gathering Draws for All Events/ World Amateur CLASP Grade 1 Results

Posted on      by     

Grade 1 CLASP results from the World Solo Amateur Piping Competition. Margaret Dunn reports: ‘This year’s overall winner, Gill Cairns, received an all expenses paid trip to compete at the amateur section of the Metro Cup in New York, 2017. Thanks to Eric and Maureen Stein for sponsoring this great prize.’ Gill is pictured above with Mr & Mrs Stein. Piobaireachd 1 Gill Cairns 2 Gordon Hislop 3 Andrea Zingg March, Strathspey…

More Lochaber Gathering Draws for All Events/ World Amateur CLASP Grade 1 Results

More from the Worlds: Juvenile and Grade 1

Posted on      by     

Thankfully the sun shone through occasionally on the Saturday of the World Championships and we avoided rain apart from some drizzle during the morning, but in general it was rather cold and not the ideal conditions for tuning and playing. Compared to the Friday, the difference in the atmosphere within Glasgow Green was quite dramatic with the buzz from all the bands and spectators, and a gradual build-up of people…

More More from the Worlds: Juvenile and Grade 1

World Pipe Band Championship: Some General Thoughts and Grade 1 Final Critique

Posted on      by     

A few reflections on the overall day before we get to individual band performances. I thought it went on a bit long and some consideration needs to be given to ways of shortening proceedings. I appreciate that to cram in hundreds of performances in a nine-hour period is a logistical nightmare and I do believe that the RSPBA did, and do, a masterful job of doing just that. This notwithstanding, the last band went…

More World Pipe Band Championship: Some General Thoughts and Grade 1 Final Critique

Ballater Games Results

Posted on      by     

A very rainy day in Ballater and just after the last piobaireachd had finished and as the massed band played for the last time, the sun came out! In total, 11 played in the piobaireachd (judged by N Matheson, R Clark and D Watson) and 12 in the light music (judged by J Hamilton and A Fraser). Open Piobaireachd 1. Ross McCrindle 2. Anna Kummerlöw 3. Ben Duncan 4. Alan Clark 5….

More Ballater Games Results

Magnificent Field Marshal Thrill Concert Hall Audience

Posted on      by     

I think the old football cliché of a ‘game of two halves’ neatly sums up Field Marshal Montgomery’s ‘Impact’ concert last night at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. Whilst never falling below the standard of excellence we have come to expect from this band, there was something almost reticent in their delivery in the first. But maybe they, like the audience, were befuddled by booming bass – and I mean booming….

More Magnificent Field Marshal Thrill Concert Hall Audience