I think it is a bit far-fetched for yesterday’s Sunday Mail newspaper to say there is a boycott of the Worlds over band sizes. Quite the opposite with record numbers signing up every year. Still, good that they picked up on the Wall Street Journal story and gave the issue some publicity as best they could. Shouldn’t expect the SM to get everything right and I had a laugh at the…
The Lewis & Harris Piping Society have announced the pipers and judges for this year’s P/M Donald MacLeod Memorial Competition. The prestigious event will beheld in the Caladh Inn, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, on Friday April 6 starting at 10.15am. Admission is £15. Invited pipers are: Finlay Johnston, Ben Duncan, Niall Stewart, Roderick MacLeod, Craig Sutherland, Iain Speirs, Glenn Brown and Angus MacColl. Pipers have to play ceol mor and…
Stuart Finlayson is the renowned piper, composer and adjudicator from New Zealand. A prizewinner at the highest level, Stuart is well known to all generations via his outstanding compositions – tunes such as Stuart Chisholm’s Walkabout and the Motley Crew. As a teenager he left his homeland and took the long boat trip to Scotland where he studied piping with P/M Donald MacLeod and Duncan Johnstone. In this second part…
Wasn’t it great to se the Wall Street Journal – of all people – taking an interest in pipe bands with their comprehensive story on band numbers yesterday? And it wasn’t because the reporter concerned played in a band either. In the best traditions of good journalism he had picked up the story from someone, did his research and produced a balanced article as a result. It was the same with…
Con Houlihan reports: Please find attached the results from this year’s Irish Piobaireachd Society annual competition, which was held in the shadow of the Kilworth Hills, Mitchelstown, Co. Cork. The event was kindly sponsored by RG Hardie & Co. The judges were John Reville and Dr Jack Taylor. Beginners 1st Tigerlily Keoghan 2nd Liam Casey 3rd Jane Carmody 4th Eamonn Casey Under 18 1st Tigerlily Keoghan Open Amateur Piobaireachd 1st…
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