With the Highland town of Forres girding its loins to welcome, for the last time, the RSPBA European Championship, the melting tar or the roads north will be well beaten by the end of the weekend. For Southern France read Northern Scotland – don’t forget hats and sun protection, writes MacStig. Our Grade 2 contest has a very different complexion from just two weeks ago in Belfast where the Mac…
Pipe band expert Alistair Aitken discusses the pipe band season so far… By Alistair Aitken OBE Since the British Pipe Band Championships at Paisley on 19 May there have been numerous local competitions throughout the UK as well as the UK Pipe Band Championships in Belfast. What has struck me in particular about the majority of local competitions is the reducing numbers of band entries. Contests which in the past have…
Our Dollar Academy correspondent has sent this….A remarkable 243 pipers and drummers gathered at Dollar Academy, Clackmannanshire, over the weekend to kick off the start of the school’s bicentenary year. With a parachute team arriving with the special bicentenary flag, which will fly over the Old Playfair Building this year, current band members and scores of former pupils (many in mature age ranges) got together to parade on the lawns…
Well done to Chicago Highland Games and the Mid West Pipe Band Association for continuing with their successful concert formation at their recent contest. Everyone’s a winner with this, especially the audience and the judges. The Ross Bandstand (above) in Edinburgh yesterday had the same option for bands. Boghall won G1 as expected with Skye second. G2 went to George Watson’s juvenile band (how good is this grade?) with Boghall…
Draw for today’s band contest in Princes Street Gardens in Edinburgh: Grade Novice B / 4B – Start Time 10:00 01 Burntisland and District 02 Tranent and District 03 Peoples Ford Boghall and Bathgate Caledonia 04 City of Edinburgh Schools 05 Stow Borders Pipe Band 06 George Watson’s College 07 Camelon & District 08 Davidson’s Mains and District Junior 09 Stockbridge 10 Queen Victoria School 11 George Heriot’s School 12…
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