Category: Piobaireachd

Skye Gathering 2022 Results – Kemble Star March & S&R Added

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The annual, two-day Skye Gathering piping competitions began yesterday in Portree. Twenty-six entered for the Dunvegan Medal contest for which pipers have to submit four MacCrimmon tunes. Previous winners are excluded and play for the Col. Jock MacDonald Clasp to the medal. The winner of the 2022 medal was James MacKenzie, a former pupil of the late Iain Murdo Morrison. James played Rory MacLeod’s Lament. We will add to the…

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Scottish Championships/ St Columba’s, Kilmalcolm Job/ Junior Festival Solos

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Solo adjudicator and former Scots Guards piper Roger Huth on the Scottish Pipe Band Chanmpionships last weekend: ‘I had the joy of wandering among the sounds of our great competing pipe bands yesterday at the Sottish Championships and seeing not a few of our superstars in action in the Grade One arena. I found rare space on a grassy rampart overlooking the hallowed spot and at 1400 the procession of…

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Arisaig Games Results

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There can’t be a better setting for a Highland Games that at Arisaig in the West Highlands. A good dry day for piping. Piobaireachd 1 Brian Lamond2 Angus MacColl Snr.3 Finlay Cameron4 Decker Forrest5 Gregor MacDonald March1 Angus MacColl2 Finlay Cameron3 Brian Lamond4 Decker Forrest Strathspey & Reel1 Angus MacColl2 Decker Forrest3 Finlay Cameron4 Dan Nevans Jig 1 Finlay Cameron2 Gregor MacDonald3 Angus MacColl 4 Dan Nevans Arisaig Challenge Cup for Piobaireachd:…

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Editor’s Notebook: BAG School/ Inveraray Games/ Judging/ Argylls Book/ US Contest/ British Legion 1971

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I am in Germany for the annual Bagpipe Association of Germany School at Breuberg Castle in the Odenwald about an hour south of Frankfurt. A great team of instructors including drummer Carel Ooms who taught with me in Denmark 25 years ago, and Dixie Ingram, retired RSPBA judge and Scots Guardsman. Dixie has been coming here for 30 years and tells me he is just back from a fortnight at…

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Dunvegan Medal Draw/ Chatsworth Entry Details

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The prestigious Dunvegan Medal for MacCrimmon Piobaireachd will take place at this year’s Skye Gathering from 8.30am on August 2. The venue is the Skye Gathering Hall in Portree. The list of entrants is already oversubscribed with a waiting list being held in reserve. The running order is as follows: Gordon Barclay 1 Andrew Donlon 2 Andrew Hall 3 Anna Smart 4 Greig Canning 5 Jamie Elder 6 Andrew Ferguson…

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