Big weekend of games ahead. Some say it is the start of the games season proper (it is the Glasgow Fair holiday period) though there have been plenty of good contests running since the end of May. Tomorrow we have piping at Balloch, Inverness and Tomintoul and on Sunday at Roseneath. Check here for results as we get them. Next week we have Inveraray on Tuesday, South Uist on Wednesday,…
The William Grant Foundation reduced sponsorship cash disbursed through the National Piping Centre in Glasgow from £145,000 in 2015 to £140,000 in 2016. Further cuts to this figure have been hinted at for this year as the Foundation, the charity wing of the whisky giant, re-aligns its contributions to deserving causes in Scotland, writes the Editor. William Grant & Sons’ generosity towards our art is legion. Their largesse is now administered…
Iain Boyd reports: The Antigonish Highland Games, Nova Scotia, were held on July 8 and 9, 2017, under mixed weather conditions. Saturday’s competitions were greeted with Scotch Mist and Sunday’s competitions were held under sunny skies. Fourteen bands from Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Ontario and Alberta competed over the two days. Close to 100 solo competitors played including nine in open professional piping. Alex Gandy was professional piper of the…
Six classic piping books were offered for sale today for by the Piping Press Shop. These have now sold within one hour of going on sale. The books, first lot, were the ‘Seaforth Highlanders Collection’, Seumas MacNeill’s ‘Tutor for Piobaireachd’ and Roderick Cannon’s ‘Highland Bagpipe and Its Music’. Revenue from these sales will help maintain Piping Press’s not for profit, subscription-free service. The ‘Seaforth Collection’, currently retailing new at £25, was first…
The great Donald MacLeod died 35 years ago last month, writes the Editor. Today we mark this with a new slideshow (link at foot of column) depicting the life and times of the master piper with thanks to the unnamed reader who alerted us to this important anniversary. Donald MacLeod was born in 1917 and died in 1982. He was one of the greatest pipers of the 20th century both…
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