Scottish Pipers’ Association Adult Amateur & Veterans Competition, College of Piping, March 26. Piob (two tunes) 1 Stewart Gaudin, Lament for Captain McDougall 2 Andrew Park, Battle of Auldearn No 2 3 Dagmar Pesta, Wee Spree March (two tunes) – Donaldson Barclay Quaich 1 Iain MacIntyre 2 Andrew Park 3 Anne Lore S&R (two of each) – RBS Cup 1 Andrew Park 2 Iain MacIntyre 3 Stewart Gaudin Veterans (slow…
The annual Duncan Johnstone competition for B & C grade pipers was held today at the National Piping Centre in Glasgow. The competition is run by the Centre and the Competing Pipers’ Association in memory of the great piper, teacher and composer. Duncan is pictured above with the Balvenie Medal he received for Services to Piping. For many years Duncan’s home was a magnet for those wishing to learn from…
Happy St Patrick’s Day to everyone. John Kelly in Northern Ireland has sent this from his local paper: ‘A local piper helped kick off the St Patrick’s Day celebrations in the USA by playing at a special event hosted by President Barack Obama. Grahame Harris, from Templepatrick, was among a small group of musicians from the Cross Border Orchestra of Ireland invited to play at a lunch hosted by Mr Obama…
Our poll on the best band never to have won a World Championship title proved very popular with hundreds of opinions lodged. Participants were asked to choose between four bands, P/M Harry McNulty’s Power of Scotland band of the 1980s, P/M Ian Duncan’s Vale of Atholl, P/M Craig and Ross Walker’s Boghall and P/Ms Davy Barnes and Robert Mathieson’s Polkemmet. As the table below shows the winner was Boghall (pictured…
Here are the full results from yesterday’s very successful fourth annual Scottish Schools Pipe Band Championships held at Broughton High School, Edinburgh: Grade 1st 2nd 3rd Juvenile George Watson’s College Dollar Academy Preston Lodge High School Novice Juvenile ‘A’ Dollar Academy North Lanarkshire Schools George Watson’s College Novice Juvenile ‘B’ Lochalsh Schools George Watson’s College Knox Academy Junior ‘A’ St Columba’s School Gordonstoun School Fettes College Junior ‘B’ Ullapool High School…
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