Category: Piobaireachd

New Competition for Original Piobaireachd Works Offers Substantial Prize Money

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The Shasta Piping Society (US) and the Burley Bagpipe Company (BC, Canada) have announced the following: Original Piobaireachd Music Competition Sponsored by Shasta Piping Society and Burley Bagpipe Company This competition calls for copies of original piobaireachds to be submitted by composers to a panel of qualified judges, Mike Cusack (USA), Bill Livingstone (Canada) and Robert Wallace (Scotland – chair).  The piobaireachds must be original to the composer(s), of any style, and…

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PP Editor’s Blog: Grampian Placings/ Roddy Ross/ BB Letter/ Piobaireachd Analysis

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Patricia Grant has sent the final placings in the John Milne Fine Arts Grampian Games Association Piping League 2016. Well done to all those pipers, junior and senior, who supported these important north-east games. Patricia writes: ‘It is encouraging to see that there are new names appearing on the League placings and hopefully the efforts of the Grampian Games Association to promote all aspects of Highland games is paying off.  I know that…

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All Ireland Results/ London Reminder/ Band Regradings

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Reminder: Andrew Hall, President of the Scottish Piping Society of London, has asked us to remind everyone that entries for this year’s competition close on September 30th and that late entries will not be accepted. The draw for the competition will be announced early next month. Andrew added: ‘We are particularly keen to encourage more juvenile entries.  There are three events in that grade which are all own choice tunes. …

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Hugh ‘Baggy’ MacMillan/ Duncan MacDiarmid/ Side Lights Review

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We regret to have to report the passing of London stalwart Hugh ‘Baggy’ MacMillan and of Duncan MacDiarmid, of the Atholl Highlanders. On Hugh, Roddy Livingstone of the Scottish Piping Society of London has sent this: ‘Former SPSL President Hugh ‘Baggy’ MacMillan passed away after a short illness in Croydon University Hospital in the early hours of Wednesday 7th September. ‘He was born into a piping family, his father Malcolm…

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Archie Kenneth Quaich Entries Open/ Bands Fees Due/ World Solo Drumming

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THE ARCHIE KENNETH QUAICH COMPETITION The twenty-fifth annual amateur Piobaireachd competition for the Archie Kenneth Quaich will take place on Saturday, 4th March 2017, in the rooms of The Royal Scottish Pipers’ Society, 127 Rose Street Lane South, Edinburgh, starting at 10am. Entries and enquiries to Alan Forbes, 24 Garscube Terrace, Edinburgh EH12 6BN.   Tel: 0131-337 4094 or e-mail: alan.forbes@btinternet.com Competitors should submit two tunes with their entries, one…

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