Category: Pipe Bands

North Berwick Grade 1 Band Results

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Warm with the occasional heavy rain shower on the east coast. A strong lineup of bands in the last contest before the Worlds. The Grade 1 MSR contest was open to Grade 2 bands who wished to “play up”. Overall1 Inveraray2 Boghall3 Scottish Power Medley1 Inveraray 2 Boghall 3 Scottish Power 4 Shotts5 Manawatu (NZ)6 Canterbury (NZ)Judges: T Brown, B Donaldson (Piping), D Millar (Drums), R Worrall (Ensemble) MSR1 Boghall…

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Lorient 2023 Results: MacCrimmon Trophy, Piobaireachd, Young Piper and G1 Bands

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25th Annual Piobaireachd Competition, Aug. 7; nine competed   1 Brendan Eade (NZ), Rout of the Lowland Captain2 Hervé Le Floc’h (Brittany), MacCrimmon‘s Sweetheart3 Chris MacDonald (Aust.), Queen Elizabeth II’s Salute 4 Joshua Chandler(Aust.), Lament for the Only Son5 Andrew Carlisle (Northern Ireland), Lament for the Earl of Antrim Other competitors: Quentin Meunier (Brittany), The Vaunting; Stuart Liddell, Lament for the Laird of Annapool; Robert Watt, Corrienessan’s Salute; Calum Kaye (Scotland), The Groat. Judges: I Duncan, T Johnstone. 41st MacCrimmon Trophy, Aug. 6; 12 competed. The winner for the second time was Stuart Liddell who…

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The Life and Death of Gold Medallist and Military Hero – P/M William Mackie

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Last week we reported correspondence from Mrs Rhonda Whitmarsh-Knight who was trying to trace photographs and information about her Gold Medal-winning grandfather, P/M William Mackie KOSB, who died fighting the Japanese in Hong Kong in 1941. PP readers responded magnificently to the challenge and we are particularly grateful to Ron Abbot, David Livingstone and Trevor Clydesdale for their input carried below. Pipe Major William Keith Craigie Mackie was born in Edinburgh…

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Editor’s Notebook: 100 Pipers Band/ Results Mix Up/ PS Recital/ Piper Wanted/ Gold Medal Hero

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Reader Gordon Smith: ‘I’ve sent you an old picture of the 100 Pipers Whisky pipe band taken outside a Chivas factory building in Paisley. I’m not sure if it’s a thread you would pursue. Pipe Major was the late Donnie Thomson, ex-Shotts, far left of pic. Leading drummer Alan Craig far right, with well known bass drummer Ian Macmillan in back row.’ Thanks very much for that Gordon. Would any…

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Scottish Pipe Band Championships 2023 Review

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I had long advocated for a change in the siting of the competition arenas at Dumbarton, so there was some satisfaction in discovering just that. No longer are the bands exposed to the full, raw blast from the Clyde estuary. Now they are snuggled away in Levengrove Park’s pleasant greenery, well protected from the elements.  The only disadvantage to the new Grade 1 circle is that the final tuning area…

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