Category: Piobaireachd

Bag Maker Jim Launches Blistering Attack on Pipe Band and Solo Promoters – Readers React

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Pipe bag maker James Begg has used his monthly newsletter to severely criticise the dearth of pipe band and solo piping events this summer. Jim points to the thousands of people attending large sporting events in the UK, yet here in Scotland we cannot even put on an open air piping contest. Jim says it is a ‘disgraceful outcome’ for piping and pipe bands. He writes: ‘There were 66,000 football…

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Editor’s Notebook: World Solo Drumming/ Champion of Champions Medal/ Richard Parkes/ Piobaireachd by the Sea/ Oldest Piper Search/ North East Photographs

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Not surprised the RSPBA have cancelled the World Solo Drumming given that there will be no fly-in competitors, but could they not have put on something for the drummers in lieu? I really cannot understand the lack of activity from this great organisation. What about a Scottish drum championship or a UK drum championship or a British Isles drum championship? They could have used Headquarters in Washington Street and if…

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Lochaber Entry Form Now Available

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Entries for the annual Lochaber Gathering piping competitions are now available. The contests will be held in person on August 27 in Fort William. There are events for ‘P&A’ and ‘B&C’ grade pipers. Places are on a first come first served basis. The competition will be the first ‘live’ open competition in Scotland this year. Entries are capped at 25 in total. There are six events: P/A Piobaireachd, P/A MSR,…

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A Few Days on Mull of the Cool High Bens

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Time stood still this week on the island of Mull. The sun shone on calm water and soaring summit. But the idyll belied an inner tension. The ‘tier zero’ island is confronting an influx of bug carriers, or so it thinks. It means restrictions more stringent than in covid city, Glasgow. By Robert Wallace It will be a time before we learn to live with this but we need to…

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Lochaber Gathering Entry Form Available Tomorrow/ Carnegie Mellon Drum Tutor

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Ken Cameron, Chairman of Lochaber Piping Society, has posted this: ‘Well, OK, the Argyllshire Gathering, Glen Urquhart Games and the Northern Meeting have been falling by the wayside around us, but we see every reason to hold the Lochaber Gathering as planned. What’s not to like? A LIVE event; spectacular prizes, terrific venue at the Highland Cinema in the centre of Fort William – AND generous prize money to be…

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