Category: Pipe Bands

Worlds PIpe Band Championship Grade 1 Qualifying Underway

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Qualifying for the Grade 1 World Championship final is now underway on a dull, overcast Glasgow Green. Weathermen are predicting a temperature high of 57 degs. F with wind and intermittent rain. Twenty – one bands will compete playing both MSR and Medley before two teams of four judges in two different arenas. The bands and their playing times are: Grade 1 – Qualifier 1 MSR 11.00 | MED 14:30 Bleary…

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Magnificent Field Marshal Thrill Concert Hall Audience

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I think the old football cliché of a ‘game of two halves’ neatly sums up Field Marshal Montgomery’s ‘Impact’ concert last night at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. Whilst never falling below the standard of excellence we have come to expect from this band, there was something almost reticent in their delivery in the first. But maybe they, like the audience, were befuddled by booming bass – and I mean booming….

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Results from the Festival Interceltique at Lorient

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The Lorient Festival is being held this week in Brittany, France. It is the biggest festival of Celtic music in the world and each year hosts important piping competitions with some of the highest prize money available to the solo piper, writes Younn Pensec. Piobaireachd: 1 Fred Morrison, Scotland (Scarce of Fishing) £380 2 Robert Watt, Northern Ireland (Corrienessan’s Salute) 3 David Shedden, Scotland (The Big Spree) 4 Stuart Easton, NZ…

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Pacific Northwest Highland Games

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BC Pipers President Robert MacNeill: Partial results of the 2016 Pacific Northwest Highland Games and BCPA Grand Aggregate Awards Under pleasant weather, the final highland games on the BC Pipers’ Association circuit, the 2016 Pacific Northwest Highland Games was held on July 30 & 31 at the Enumclaw Expo Center in Enumclaw, WA. One hundred and five  solo players and 13 bands competed. Jack Lee won the Open Piping Aggregate, Kyle…

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PP Editor’s Blog: Silver Chanter/ Letters/ Comments/ Games/ Nicol-Brown/ Bill Blacklaw

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Congratulations to Iain MacFadyen on completing 50 years attendance at the Silver Chanter competition held this week at Dunvegan Castle, Skye. Iain’s family has had a long association with the competition and with the island. His brother John, who had a home there, was one of the Chanters’ co-founders back in the late 60s. The family connection with the Misty Isle continues with Cameron MacFadyen, Iain’s nephew, taking over from…

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