Thanks to everyone who responded to our Whisky Galore article at the end of last week. Not possible to respond personally to everyone’s emails so a collective ‘thank you’ to you all. I asked for the name of the piper pictured and then posed a quiz question: ‘Who wrote the book and who was his piper?’ A few were caught out by that, assuming that the piper in the film…
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,…
What a pity to see that there will only be two bands competing in Grade 1 at Pitlochry on Saturday. In my day all the top bands took part. It was seen as a ‘final fling’ of the year and the Perthshire town had its very own pipe band atmosphere that day. For the finale all the bands used to line up in one long file and play together at…
By Robert Wallace Another successful Argyllshire Gathering concluded yesterday as you will have read, and plans are already underway for next year’s gathering. The weather was particularly unkind on Games Day (though it brightened up later), but it could not lessen the light in the eye of the new Gold Medallist, John Angus Smith. In a short interview he told Piping Press: ‘It feels fantastic to have won the Gold…
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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