Category: Pipe Bands

Editor’s Notebook: Silver Chanter/ Piping Live/ British Championships/ Letters

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For me the most significant announcement in the Piping Live press release yesterday was the news that the Silver Chanter recital/competition is to be moved back to its spiritual homeland on the island of Skye. This is something we have been campaigning for ever since the National Piping Centre took over the running of this showpiece event from cash-strapped Skye Piping Society in 2018. It was totally unsuited to Glasgow…

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Blair Atholl Games Draw and a Tribute to Alex

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I attach the draws and judges for the piping competitions at the Atholl Gathering to be held this Sunday, May 29, on the Atholl Estate, Blair Atholl, writes Dr Jack Taylor. Readers may be interested to know that at the Atholl Highlanders Parade the previous day, Saturday May 28, from 2.30-3.45pm, there will be a Moment of Remembrance for piper Alex Duncan, Atholl Highlanders (1994-2020). Alex is pictured above in his…

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British Pipe Band Championships 2022 – A Spectator’s View

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It was a relief to be able to attend the British Championships at Greenock last Saturday, the first time I have been anywhere near a live pipe band contest for more than two years.  The venue was perhaps appropriate for the first Major following the pandemic as Battery Park is on the Firth of Clyde, not far from where, on the ferry coming back from Cowal in 1930, the original…

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Expert Analysis of the 2022 British Pipe Band Grade 1 Championship

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We are very grateful to RSPBA Adjudicator P/M Robert Mathieson for this exceptional view of yesterday’s British Pipe Band Championships Grade 1 contest. It was typed ‘live from the dugout’ and is by kind permission from the RSPBA. Robert is a five time Worlds winner with Shotts & Dykehead Caledonia PIpe Band and a highly respected figure in the piping and pipe band worlds. This was the long awaited first…

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First Major for Three Years Sees British Championship Victory for Inveraray (Complete Results)

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P/M Stuart Liddell’s Inveraray & District were declared the new British Pipe Band Champions today at a blustery Battery Park, Greenock. The other G1 places went to: 2 Field Marshal3 SLOT4 Fife Police5 Shotts6 Boghall with the drumming going to Inveraray. Each band had to an own-choice Medley. Judges for the Championship were: Stay tuned to PP for more on Grade 1. Grade 2:1 Buchan Peterson2 Annan3 Ravara4 Uddingston5 Manorcunningham6…

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