Category: Piobaireachd

PP Ed’s Blog: Big Games Week/ New PP Site/ Pipes Sold/ PM Angus pic

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Big week of solo Highland games contests ahead. Would all secretaries, parents and pipers snap away and send us your shots. We now have an Instagram account so any that don’t make the main PP site can be posted there. Inveraray is tomorrow July 17, South Uist 18th, Benbecula Young Piper 19th, Tobermory 19th, 21st Tomintoul, Taynuilt, Lochearnhead, Inverness and North Uist. Isn’t that just tremendous? Thanks are due to all…

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Tain Highland Games Results

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Tain Games held on Saturday 14th July. Senior Competitions Results Piobaireachd 1. Cameron MacDougall, Lament for Donald Duaghal MacKay 2. Andrew Hall, Lament for Mary MacLeod 3. Gordon Barclay, King’s Taxes 4. Connor Kellett, Cabar Feidh Gu Brath Judge: A Maclean March 1. Cameron MacDougall 2. James MacPhee 3. Andrew Hall 4. Les Hutt Judge: A Maclean Strathspey & Reel 1. Cameron MacDougall 2. James MacPhee 3. Finlay MacLeod 4….

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Balloch Juniors

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Dry conditions on the shores of Loch Lomond. The picture above shows the winning pipers. 17 & Under Piob 1 Anna Smart 2 Bobby Allan 3 Mark Morrison 4 Kyle Gordon Juv 15-17 March 1 Anna Smart 2 Ian Hamilton 3 Kyle Gordon Juv 15-17 S&R 1 Anna Smart 2 Ian Hamilton 3 Kyle Gordon 14 & Under March 1 Bobby Allan 2 Fraser Hamilton 3 Calum Barton 4 Mark…

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PP Ed’s Blog: Worlds Draw/ Northern Meeting/ Darach & PM Angus/ Mod Results & Reminder

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I don’t think we should be giving the RSPBA a hard time over the slip up with the Worlds draw. Errors of this sort are very rare within the Association and having attended the procedure I can vouch for the considerable care and attention to detail that is gone into in trying to get everything just right. As we say in Glasgow ‘nae body’s deid’. I did think it unfortunate…

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PP Ed’s Blog: Band MSRs/ Publishing Tunes/ Brass & Pipe Music/ PS Concert/ Alden Biesen

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Listening to Field Marshal’s MSR from the All-Irelands last weekend, did I detect a very slight disconnect between drums and pipes in the last few parts of Pretty Marion? Wrong to make assumptions based on videos of course, all sorts of things get altered in transmission. I may be talking rubbish, but it would tie in with the ensemble judge placing them behind SLoT. Have a listen: Those who read…

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