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Callum’s New Job

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Callum Beaumont, one of Scotland’s top young pipers, has moved to a new job as part-time piping instructor at Dollar Academy in Clackmannanshire. He is also launching his own piping company ‘Callum Beaumont Piping’ and plans to teach and conduct workshops worldwide. Dollar Academy have one of the country’s top juvenile bands and are the current World Champions. Callum (25) previously worked at the National Piping Centre and taught for…

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Poster Reveals Details of 1785 Contest

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What did pipers play in solo competition almost 230 years ago? A poster from the 1785 competition held in Edinburgh for the Prize Pipe reveals all. It tells us that 50 pieces of ceol mor were heard during the gathering; it proves that the tunes we play today were in common currency back then; it shows that despite Culloden, its shameful aftermath and the Act of Proscription, piping continued to thrive in…

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Row over Highland Dress Comments – Judge Responds

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By The Editor There has been a great deal of response to the article by former Northern Meeting Dress and Deportment judge Bill Blacklaw first carried in these pages a few weeks ago. It was followed by his erudite exposition on how to wear Highland Dress – widely read by hundreds of pipers and bandsmen and women around the world according to our figures. We also carried out a poll…

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New Feature: The Day We Won the Worlds

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By Robert Wallace We read, and see, plenty about the big boys (and girls) and their triumphs in the Worlds Grade 1 – and deservedly so. Yesterday, for example, we printed a full list of all the winners of this coveted title and some photographs, and judging by your response it has been very well received. But what about the rest of us? Those Worlds winners who had just the…

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News: World Drumming, Letters, Highland Dress

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Tickets for the World Solo Drumming at Glasgow Caledonian University on Saturday are free. The Adult Final costs £5. Read more and book here…… A nice leter has been received from Canada. Read here… The second, and final instalment in Bill Blacklaw’s highly informative (and necessary for some!) article on how to wear Highland dress concludes here……