The two most important light music competitions in world piping are the Former Winners’ events at Oban and Inverness. To qualify for either pipers must have won an ‘A’ grade March or Strathspey & Reel at Oban or the ‘A’ MSR at Inverness. Today our Special Correspondent recalls the evening he spent at this year’s Northern Meeting listening to the ‘big’ MSR. The montage above shows the winner Alex Gandy,…

The band have sent this….Kilmarnock Pipe Band have a vision to see a much needed quality pipe band in Ayrshire once again.  To achieve this they have recruited Paul Warren as Pipe Major. Paul has had pipe majoring success in the past when he took Lomond and Clyde from the bottom of Grade 4 to the top of Grade 2 in under a decade. Paul brings with him Karen McCrindle…

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Organiser Margaret Dunn reports: Please find attached the CLASP results from Chatsworth Country Fair held on Saturday 1st September, 2018. Attached also is a group picture of some CLASP competitors (above), and the overall winners. All overall winners received a National Piping Centre Seasonal School voucher and prize winners received NPC shop vouchers. Overall CLASP Winner Grade 1 – David MacKenzie Overall CLASP Winner Grade 2 – Duncan Lamont Overall CLASP…

Looking back over the summer I think it would be fair to say that it has provided a thoroughly enjoyable few months of piping and pipe band music, writes the Editor. All the band contests seemed to go off well, certainly the majors did. My only grumble, as you will have read earlier, is that it all finishes a few weeks too early. It will be worse next year with…