Highlands & Islands Festival – Complete Results, Pictures and Comment

A successful competition was held in the new Oban High School today (Sat May 5). There were healthy entries in all grades except the P/A Piobaireachd where nine entered but seven played. Cameron MacDougall, Nigg, continued his successful run winning the P/A Piobaireachd and the B MSR. Cameron is pictured above left with B Piob winner Steven Leask. P/A Ceol Mor for Cooper Salver (1st) and Dugald MacColl Memorial Trophy…

PP Ed’s Blog: Piper Query/ World Drumming/ Quaich Livestream/ Aberdeen Teachers/ SPA/ Gransha

Reader Kylie McKenna: ‘I am hoping you and your readers might be able to help me. I am trying to find out if anyone can identify what tartan and pipe band my grandfather William Lamont may have been a member of at the time this photo (above and below) was taken. ‘He was from Leslie in Fife, and I do know he was a member of the Leslie Pipe Band…

PP Ed’s Blog: PP Twitter/ Michael’s Funeral/ Piob Soc Concert/ Jimmy’s Bags/ Inverness/ China Chance

A new Twitter account has been created for Piping Press, your favourite, no spin, no subscription web magazine. Staff will post there as necessary and all updates and new posts from the PP magazine will also automatically be tweeted there. Sign up for Twitter here and then follow @PipingPress.  The funeral of Lord Martin of Springburn, the former MP Michael Martin, will begin at St Aloysius Church, Garnethill, Glasgow, on…

Highlands & Islands Entrants and Draw (Updated)

The annual Highlands & Islands Festival competitions takes place this Saturday, May 4 in Oban. There are professional classes for P/A, B and C grade as well as a full raft of competitions for juniors (chanter, under 15 and 15-18). After their wins at the SPA Professional last month, both Gordon McCready and Cameron MacDougall will be looking to continue their good start to the year. The contests will be held in…

Concert News: SLoT Tickets Selling Fast/ More Details on Piob. Soc. Recital

More than 60% of all seats for the St Laurence O’Toole World’s Week concert have been sold already. The concert entitled ‘Resume’ will be staged at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall on August 15. The promoters, Glasgow Skye Association Pipe Band, are delighted with the uptake so far and urge all those intending to go to what is the biggest pipe band night of the week to get their briefs as…