Mike Fitzhenry, co-organiser of the Scottish Piping Society of London’s annual championship, has sent the following: ‘We’ve had two cases of competitors thinking they’ve entered but it has not been received. If you were able to use the following for the website I would really appreciate it: A reminder that entries close on September 30th for the SPSL Annual Competition taking place on November 3rd at Kensington Town Hall. The…
The local council had issued the following…….:Applications are invited for a post of Bagpipe Tutor (Youth Music Initiative) Clackmannanshire Council. Based in the Alloa cluster, you will deliver whole class group tuition to P6 pupils in three primary schools. The appointee will be an established practitioner in the delivery of such tuition. They will have proven ability to engage creatively with a varied cohort of students, and a commitment to…
The audience at the Inverness Silver Medal 2018, although small, was bigger than in recent years – perhaps because the set tunes for this competition were thought more interesting than those set for the Gold Medal, both competitions running simultaneously. The room at Eden Court Theatre was a bit small but the acoustics were good. MacCrimmon’s Sweetheart Four played this tune. It has been a very popular piece and…
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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