Category: Piobaireachd

Further Details on the 2025 Silver Chanter

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Craig Sutherland, now living in western Canada, is unable to travel to the 2025 Silver Chanter competition/ recital. Craig qualified by winning the Gold Medal at Inverness last year. His place will be taken by Angus MacPhee, runner-up in the Dunvegan Medal 2024. Other invitees are Nick Hudson, Texas, (Inverness Clasp), Alasdair Henderson, Dunoon, (Snr. Piob. Oban), Derek Midgley, New Jersey, (Dunvegan Clasp), Sandy Cameron, Roy Bridge, (Dunvegan Medal), and Cameron Drummond, Edinburgh,…

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Aberdeen Games and Corgarff Games Results

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Piping Convenor Fraser Maitland reports from yesterday’s (June 15) Aberdeen Games….Thankfully the rain held off despite a yellow weather warning for the North East. Interesting to note a higher turnout in juniors than in seniors. According to a few competitors and parents, this was due to the addition of a new piobaireachd competition for U18s. Despite a few hiccups including a missing board for the senior MSR, and stewards balancing…

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Pipers for PS Summer Recital Announced

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The Piobaireachd Society’s Annual Recital of Ceòl Mòr will be held in St Cecilia’s Hall, Edinburgh, on Sunday, August 10. The title of the recital is ‘Classical Pipe Music – Scotland’s Hidden Treasure’. It is part of the Fringe Festival. The show starts 7 for 7.30pm and concludes circa 9.30pm. The pipers are (l-r above) Alasdair Henderson, Dunoon, John McDonald, Aberdeen, and Brodie Watson-Massey, Edinburgh. They’ll each play two tunes,…

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Editor’s Notebook: Pipers’ Persuasion/ RSPBA Judges/ McIntosh Scholarship/ Iain Dall Memorial/ Bagad New York

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Allan Hamilton has announced the last of his Pipers’ Persuasion interviews. What a service to piping he has provided. Beginning in 2010, he set about interviewing and filming noted figures in the piping world. Many provided a fascinating insight into what made them tick, how they achieved their success. Now after 15 years and more than 100 interviews, Allan has hung up his camera and microphone. He says. ‘I thoroughly…

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Piobaireachd Study on Skye

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The Piobaireachd Society Summer School ended last weekend. It was the fourth time we had travelled to Skye for the week-long class. We had 25 students. They came from the Phillipines, Thailand, USA, Canada, Liverpool, the isles of Bute and Mull, the Borders, Bellshill, Norwich, Glasgow, London, Aberdeen, Caithness, Austria, Germany and Brittany. They all appreciated the accommodation and food at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, the Gaelic College on the Sleat…

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