Category: Piobaireachd

Captain JA MacLellan Contest Entries Now Open/ Shotts , Falkirk Contests

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WO1 Martin MacDonald, Senior Instructor at the Army School of Bagpipe Music and Highland Drumming has sent this: ‘We  will be holding the third Captain John A. MacLellan MBE Piping Championship at Inchdrewer House, Redford Barracks, Edinburgh on the 14th of November this year. As usual the competition will cover C, B and P/A Grades for both Piobaireachd and MSR and also an Open Hornpipe and Jig. Entries will be taken through…

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PP Ed’s Blog: British at Paisley/ Canada’s Sherriff Contest/ Glenfiddich

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Most people have been very pleased with the RSPBA’s decision to opt for Paisley as the host for next year’s British Pipe Band Championships – and for 2017/18. What it does mean is that three of the major championships on the RSPBA calendar are now being held in west-central Scotland: the Worlds at Glasgow Green, the Scottish at Dumbarton and now the British at Paisley. Belfast gets the UK Championships…

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PP Ed’s Blog: A Kist o’ Riches – Tobar an Dualchais

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Alan MacColl of the 214 BB Ex-Members has alerted us to the following:  ‘Having this evening watched the Paul Murton BBC programme ‘Grand Tour of the Scottish Islands’, I was interested in hearing of Canna House. Basically this was where many recordings of Gaelic life are held. I then went on the following website: http://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/en/results  and was amazed at the amount of digital recordings available. I had just put in Lewis as a search…

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Response to the ‘Some Thoughts on Piobaireachd Study’ Essay/ Archie Kenneth Reminder

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Dr J David Hester (pictured) of the Alt Pibroch website has replied to the article published last week on the study and analysis of piobaireachd…. ‘Mr. Wallace, I very much appreciate your feedback on our project and welcome the ensuing discussion. I hope we can truly engage in an informative and thoughtful dialogue, and avoid the pitfalls of ‘serial monologues’ that are the hallmark of most modern discourse.    Because, while…

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PP Editor’s Blog: Woolmet Juveniles/ South Florida Sponsors/ SPA KO/Big Music Concert/ Archie Kenneth Quaich

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Anyone who thought the prevalence of girls in today’s pipe bands is a relatively new phenomenon should have a look at the above picture of the Woolmet Colliery Juvenile Pipe Band. It’s from a 1949 edition of the Piping, Dancing and Highland Dancing Journal. The story reads: ‘The Woolmet Colliery Juvenile Pipe Band, one of the young bands of the Lothians and Borders Branch [of the RSPBA] was founded in…

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