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Skye Gathering: Silver Chanter, Kemble Star, P MacFarquhar Star, Clasp, Dunvegan Medal Results (Updated)

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The Dunvegan Medal is one of our most important piobaireachd awards. Pipers have to submit four tunes from a list of MacCrimmon or MacCrimmon-related tunes. There was a mixed standard of play today with many pipers struggling with their instruments. Twenty-two played. The picture above shows the 2017 medallist Ian K.MacDonald from Toronto. Ian gave an outstanding performance of the classic Lament for Donald Ban MacCrimmon. Stay tuned for comment from the…

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CLASP Grade 3 World Amateur Solos

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Margaret Dunn reports: Here are our results for CLASP grade 3, World Solo Amateur Piping Competition at Piping Live!.  Held today, 8th August, at St Aloysius Convent. The winner, John Bertino, is pictured with adjudicator Brian Switalla. Grade 3 Piobaireachd  1st  John Bertino 2nd Alfred Graf 3rd Stephen Whitton Grade 3 Piobaireachd (Ground) 1st John Bertino 2nd Alfred Graf 3rd Andrew Richardson Grade 3 – 2/4 March 1st John Bertino…

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Lisburn & Castlereagh City Pipe Band Championships at Moira Demesne

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Moira Demesne provided the perfect setting for the 2017 Lisburn & Castlereagh City Pipe Band Championships on Saturday 5th August.  Organised in partnership with the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association Northern Ireland Branch (RSPBANI), 48 pipe bands and 47 drum majors took part. Gilbert Cromie reports: Moira Demesne was the venue for the Lisburn and Castlereagh City Pipe Band Championships and despite a heavy shower of rain after the last…

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Results from Bridge of Allan Pipe Band Competition

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From our correspondent in another (muddy) field, this time in Stirlingshire. Best band on parade were 4 Scots Royal Regiment of Scotland (pictured above)…. For those overseas bands making the jaunt from North Berwick via their accommodation in Glasgow, to BofA, there might have been precious little drying time for brogues, kilts and glengarries. On an overcast early morning, rain was expected later in the day and it arrived around…

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Newtonmore Games Results

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The rain held off and was mainly warm and sunny throughout the day in Badenoch. Ben Duncan (pictured) of the Army School of Piping continued his tremendously successful summer round the games, once again being declared Champion Piper. Judges on the light music were Jimmy Jackson and Gordon Clark with John Don MacKenzie on the Piobaireachd. Champion Piper: Ben Duncan. Junior Champion Piper: Finlay Cameron. Piobaireachd 1 Ben Duncan 2 Darach…

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