Category: Piobaireachd

Argyllshire Gathering Places Announced for Gold & Silver Medals

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Following meetings last weekend the pipers listed below have been granted a place to compete for The Highland Society of London Gold Medal and the Silver Medal at this year’s Argyllshire Gathering. They are as follows (not in playing order): ARGYLLSHIRE GATHERING GOLD MEDAL 1. Andrea Boyd, Canada 2. Glenn Brown 3. Gordon Bruce 4. Sandy Cameron 5. Andrew Carlisle, N Ireland 6. Jori Chisholm, USA 7. Cameron Drummond 8. Stuart…

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Archives: Uist & Barra/ Bob Hardie/ Northern Meeting/ Donald MacPherson

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This year’s Uist & Barra competition was cancelled due to the weather and we await details of a rearranged date. In the meantime a delve into the PP archives has revealed this cutting from the Daily Record of February 12, 1951, confirming that the contest was held even earlier all those years ago. These days it is usually on the first Saturday in March.  Under the headline ‘Portrait of prize piper’,…

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PP Ed’s Blog: Online Band Registrations/ Piob Soc Conf/ Recital Cancelled/Neil in Falklands/ WW1 Tunes

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The RSPBA have announced that registration for all major championships for 2018 is now available online. Chief Executive Ian Embelton says on the RSPBA website: ‘Online entries are now open for the 2018 championship season. ‘Entries for bands and drum majors will only be available online. We introduced this facility three years ago and in 2017 almost all entries were made online so we have now decided to remove the…

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Quest to Return Medals to Piper’s Family/ Piobaireachd Composing Contest

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The medals pictured above are the subject of a letter from reader Dorothy Tulloch. Dorothy writes: ‘I have pictures and medals of the piper Angus MacMillan. They were given to my dad, Drum Major Eric Allan, for an exhibition some years ago at the World [Pipe Band] Championships. ‘My dad was Eric Allan from Irvine and a member of Ayr Pipe Band as drum major (I think, maybe Irvine and…

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PP Ed’s Blog: Two Drone Pipe/ RSPBA College/ NEPADA/ SPA/ Liam O Flynn

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I snapped this picture in a bar known as the ‘Tilted Kilt’ in Boca Raton, Florida, last month. What intrigued me was that the piper is playing a two-drone pipe. Given that the poster is calling on Irishmen to join up it must have been before the formation of the Irish Republic, and circa the outbreak of WW1. I seem to remember a reference to a regiment called the Irish…

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