Category: Piobaireachd

Atholl Highlanders Pipes & Drums Mark Musical Succession At This Year’s Parade

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Entries are now closed for one of the first Highland games of the summer at Blair Atholl on May 29. Pipers have topped sixty with double figures in all grades P/A, B and C. The day before the games….. This year’s Atholl Highlanders Parade at Blair Castle in Highland Perthshire marks the retirement of two very distinguished band members who hand over duties to two musical brothers. The Parade will see the…

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Gordon Castle Games Results

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Dr Jack Taylor: Here are the results from the Gordon Castle Highland Games and Country Fair held today. Competitors pictured above. Open Piobaireachd1. Gordon Barclay  2. John McDonald3. James McPetrie4. Hamish Munro5. Andrew Yu Open March1. Hamish Munro2. John McDonald3. James McPetrie4. Gordon Barclay5. Andrew Yu Open Strathspey and Reel1. James McPetrie2. John McDonald3. Hamish Munro4. Andrew Yu5. Gordon Barclay Overall Champion: John MacDonald Junior EventsPiobaireachd1. Jake Robertson2. Sarah Keir3….

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History: Day 2 at the Northern Meeting 1970

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A couple of weeks ago we ran a report on day one of the 1970 Northern Meeting. Today we have the Press & Journal newspaper’s report from day 2. It marked the comeback of the legendary Donald MacPherson after a four year lay off. The newspaper caption to the above picture reads ‘Congratulations for Mr Donald MacPherson, Exmouth, Devon, from his wife Gwen and daughters Fiona and Katrina after winning…

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Editor’s Notebook: PPBSO Archive/ RSPBA Chief/ Donald Cameron/ Finlay Drynan/ Captain John

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New President Michael Grey has certainly rejuvenated Ontario’s Piping and Pipe Band Society. There’s now new archive material from the Society’s archives available, his latest Newsletter tells me. Above is film of the innovative Vale of Atholl band under P/M Ian Duncan from the North American Championships at Maxville in 1988. The blurb reads: ‘This is the last of nine bands to play on Saturday, July 30, 1988. The Vale…

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South Africa’s ‘100 Guineas’ Solo Piping 2022 – Part 2

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This was a good renaissance weekend of piping, in an excellent venue, with slick stewarding, and a somewhat larger audience than usual – all this helped to produce a sense that things are getting back on track at last after the pandemic.  Like me, I am sure the organisers, the Scottish Piping Society of Southern Africa, were particularly gratified that four of the competitors in ‘100 Guineas’ were quite well…

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