Saturday (March 10) sees the annual Duncan Johnstone Memorial competition held at the Piping Centre. Duncan was a master player, teacher and composer. Never a great competitor, however in this third instalment of this interview with editor Robert Wallace in 1996, he talks of the famous evening when he beat P/M Donald MacLeod in the final of the SPA Knockout in Glasgow…… Did you never have a go at Oban…
By Peter McCalister This was a smaller contest than previous due to severe snow on the day and the two days before. We had 25 pipers initially on the list and on the day 13 appeared. Those included pipers from the USA, Germany, and the frozen West of Scotland. A lot of effort was made to attend in these difficult circumstances – so thanks go to all of them,…
Off the back of his successes in professional solo piping competitions in 2017, Sgt Ben Duncan from the Army School of Bagpipe Music & Highland Drumming was invited to play in the Metro Cup Invitational Piping Competition held in Newark, New Jersey. The competition took place in the Ramada Plaza Newark Liberty Airport Hotel on the 17th February 2018. This was a great opportunity for Ben and one of his…
Robert MacNeill of the BC Pipers’ Association reports: The 2018 Boney Music Memorial Invitational Piping Competition and Recital was a great success, raising over $2170 [£1,228 approx.] for brain cancer research for the British Columbia Cancer Foundation, $828 [£468 approx.] of it from the livestreaming viewers. The BC Pipers’ Association continued the event that Andrew Bonar began in 2016 to utilize piping to further advance charitable causes. The players Kevin McLean,…
Con Houlihan reports: Please find attached the results from this year’s Irish Piobaireachd Society annual competition, which was held in the shadow of the Kilworth Hills, Mitchelstown, Co. Cork. The event was kindly sponsored by RG Hardie & Co. The judges were John Reville and Dr Jack Taylor. Beginners 1st Tigerlily Keoghan 2nd Liam Casey 3rd Jane Carmody 4th Eamonn Casey Under 18 1st Tigerlily Keoghan Open Amateur Piobaireachd 1st…
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