Category: Piobaireachd

Greenville SC Games and Jimmy McIntosh Contest

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Greenville Highland Games Professional Piping, May 29, 2016 By Robert Wallace The  most impressive aspect of the Jimmy McIntosh MBE piobaireachd competition (held as part of the Greenville SC Highland Games) was the level of musicianship of the participants. They demonstrated an understanding of time signatures and phrasing not always heard on the professional stage. Much of that can be credited to Jimmy himself. Now 90 and living in Anderson, South…

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Blair Atholl Games Results (updated & pix added)

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A warm, dry, sunny day.  A Piob 1 D Urquart (Earl of Ross’s March) 2 P McCalister (I Gave a Kiss to the King’s Hand) 3 C Sutherland (My King Has Landed in Moidart) 4 W Geddes  (Lament for MacSwan of Roaig) 5 M Elder 6 J Greenlees; Judges: T Speirs, S Shedden B Piob 1 A Wright 2 B Duncan 3 C McDougall 4 C Watson 5 R Miller…

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PP Editor’s Blog: Greenville Games/ British Critique/ Alex Kiddie/ New Trophy Solo Games

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I am writing this on the balcony of Jimmy and Joyce McIntosh’s lovely home in Anderson, South Carolina. I’m here for the local Greenville Games which begin on Saturday and end on Sunday with the professional piping and a workshop in the Crowne Plaza Hotel. The journey from Scotland via Newark is about 20 hours door to door depending on lay over time in NJ. The temperature here is 84…

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Piping in Breeks/ Donald Video/ Australia Results

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New video posted today of Donald McBride, Kansas and Donegal, but formerly Patna (South Ayrshire), Prestonpans and Glasgow. Donald plays some ceol beag and then the piobaireachd The Sound of the Waves Against the Castle of Duntroon. Appropriately he is playing the tune on the foreshore north of Boston (the tide is audible in the background) during a quiet evening at the New England piping camp in 2013. It was a balmy…

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Paisley Preview/ WW1 Tunes

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All eyes tomorrow on the British Pipe Band Championships. If you are not already on Twitter then you may like to sign up and receive the RSPBA’s feed @RSPBAHQ. That way you will get the results as they are announced by Chief Executive Ian Embelton on the park. Failing that check out the RSPBA’s Results summaries from 6.30pm onwards. I will be reporting from the competition in these pages from…

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