No sooner had we made our request for information on the 1970 ‘First Grade 1 Medley Worlds’ held at Hazelhead Park, Aberdeen, than reader Trevor Clydesdale came up with the goods. Trevor kindly forwarded cuttings from the local Press & Journal newspaper, relevant excerpts from their report below…. THE BEST pipe band in the World – that’s Shotts and Dykehead Caledonia Pipe Band. Under Pipe Major T. McAllister. Jun., they pipped…

Listening to BBC Alba’s ‘Crunluath’ programme on Saturday you realised what you had been missing by way of live music. Host Catriona MacNeill played excerpts from the 2019 Northern Meeting, and like her predecessor Cailean Maclean, let the music do the talking. Two full piobaireachd, three six-tune MSRs and a hornpipe & jig made for an hour or so of absorbing piping with terrific performances from Jack Lee (pictured), Bruce…

The following interesting reports are from the Oban Times, circa 1961…. Congratulations ….. The unique recognition accorded to Pipe Major John MacLellan in his commissioning as the first ever officer piper in the Army has given immense pleasure to all lovers of piping as well as to a host of friends both here as well and overseas. The announcement that he had been granted Queen’s Commission in the rank of…

In the Old World we would all now be marching from Glasgow Green on to Cowal with soloists looking ahead to the late summer highlights of Oban, Inverness and the autumnal Glenfiddich with a bit of London thrown in. I’m sure that having read that your heart sank to know that ‘there is life Jim, but not as we knew it’, to mangle a phrase from Dr McCoy to his…