By Mike Rogers Congratulations to all the participants in the 33rd annual United States Piping Foundation Amateur and Professional Piping Championships, held in memory of founder Maclean Macleod on 15 Jun 2019, in the Amy DuPont Music Building at the University of Delaware, Newark, DE! In the Amateur events there were 7 pipers from throughout North America, and 14 in the Professional events.   The adjudicators for the Amateur Competitions…

The annual UK Pipe Band Championship moved to a wet Lurgan Park in Northern Ireland today. The results in Grade 1 were: 1 SLOT2 FMM3 Inveraray4 S Power5 Boghall6 Fife Police with the drumming going to SLOT. St Laurence achieves straight 1s in all judging categories. They are captured celebrating below in this office shot by photographer Lee Bisset: The other grades:G21 Closkelt2 Ravara3 Manorcunningham4 MacKenzie Caledonian5 Annan6 Buchan PetersonDrums:…

By Robert Wallace Late one morning earlier this week I attended a concert ‘Our Oldest Tradition’ given by John Dew of Inveraray Pipe Band and one of our foremost young players. The concert was to mark the end of his BMus Trad – Piping degree third year at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.  The performance was given in the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow’s Sauchiehall Street. Such is the…

The 2019 Northern Meeting will be held from August 29 – 30 in Eden Court Theatre, Inverness. The promoters have today issued all competitors with the running order in each competition.

‘This way that way, forward and back and over the Irish Sea.A bottle of rum to fill my tum and that’s the life for me.’ Dear Reader, By the time you are cantering through this piece I will most likely be bobbing around on a floating piece of metal in the midst of the crossing from auld Scotia to Ulster, writes MacStig. The physics of heavy metal floating on salt…