Good attendance on a warm sunny day. Over £2000 in prize money across the events. Good standard of playing across all grades. Pictured above is confined piobaireachd winner Roger Huth. Confined events – Pipers Graded B&C by the CPA Piobaireachd 1. Roger Huth – Lament for Mary MacLeod 2. Joe Davies – The Desperate Battle 3. Kyle Shead – A Flame of Wrath for Squinting Patrick 4. Peter Candy –…

Entries were capped but that still made for a full day of piping. The piobaireachd began at 10am and concluded at 6pm. 26 played. The standard was mixed but all the prize winners played well and there were a number of other performances which were spoiled by basic errors. The winner was Gordon McCready from Renfrew. This was Gordon’s second Braemar Gold Medal. He is pictured above outside the Royal Pavilion with his…

The 2018 Northern Meeting Piping Competitions came to a close this evening in Eden Court Theatre. The winners are pictured above with contest officials and the Lord Provost of Inverness. The big winner today was Callumn Beaumont, Bo’ness who won the coveted Gold Clasp, his third. Overall Champion Piper was Angus MacColl who placed second in the Clasp for the sixth time though he has also been outright winner on…

Shortly after hearing the news that he had won the much sought after Inverness Silver Medal P/M Ross McCrindle of the Army School of Piping spoke to the Editor. Ross is pictured above outside the Eden Court Theatre, scene of his success. A clearly delighted Ross said: ‘It is maybe a cliché but this is a dream come true for me. It really is. It has been a long time coming….