New PP Video Archive page launched today with a slideshow from the Argyllshire Gathering. It has pictures from before WW2 right up to the present day. The picture above is included. It is from the games at Oban in 1950, and the pipers left to right are: John Finlay, Charlie Scott, Willie Connell, Donald MacLean (Lewis), a shy looking John Burgess, George Stoddart, J O’Grady and R Henderson. John D. had…
A good crowd of 60 or so gathered at St Mary’s Church in Haddington last Sunday to hear 17-year-old Brìghde Chaimbeul from Skye give a very well-received piping recital. Brìghde played a wide-ranging set of tunes on both the Highland pipes and smallpipes. She began with a selection of 6/8 marches, including MacLeod of Mull and MacNeill of Ugadale. She then played some hornpipes and jigs and continued with the MSR, Braes of…
Press Release on the forthcoming Celtic Connections concert featuring former members of the World Championship winning 78th Fraser Highlanders Pipe Band: ‘The seminal 1987 ‘Live in Ireland’ concert recording is to be celebrated at 2016 Celtic Connections Festival in Glasgow. A group from the 1987 vintage 78th Fraser Highlanders Pipe Band and household names of the pipe band world come together to form a special once-in-a-lifetime band of big talent and…
The adjudicators for this year’s Argyllshire Gathering to be held at Oban on August 26 and 27 are as follows: SENIOR PIOBAIREACHD Bill Livingstone, Iain MacFadyen, John Wilson. GOLD MEDAL Willie Morrison, Jack Taylor, Bob Worrall. SILVER MEDAL Patricia Henderson, Ronnie MacShannon, Alan Forbes. MacGREGOR MEMORIAL MEDAL Malcolm McRae, Robert Wallace, Bill Wotherspoon, Andrew Wright. FORMER WINNERS’ M, S & R Jimmy Banks, Ian McLellan, Stuart Samson. <a href=”https://ppresshop.myshopify.com/cart/1106383835:1″ target=”_blank”>Buy…
Up and coming young piper Brighde Chaimbeul is giving a recital in Haddington, East Lothian, on Sunday (July 5). It will be held in St Mary’s Parish Church from 4 – 5pm. The publicity blurb reads: Seventeen-year-old Brìghde comes from the Isle of Skye and has been immersed in Scottish/Gàidhlig music from a young age. She was offered a place at St Mary’s Music School in 2010 and since then has been…
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