Category: Results

Markinch Games Results

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Nine played in the Junior Piobaireachd and 11 in the Jnr. MSR. Twelve competed in both senior events. Cloudy morning, sunny afternoon. Piobaireachd events were judged by Andrew Wright and Andrew Frater and ceol beag by Jimmy Banks and Roderick Barron. Snr. Piob. 1 Jonathan Simpson (pictured) 2 Andrew Bova 3 Callum Wynd 4 Brian Lamond Snr. MSR 1 Dan Nevins 2 Brian Lamond 3 Calum Watson 4 Ciaren Ross…

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PP Editor’s Blog: Weekend Contests/ Lorient/ Breton CD/ Piobaireachd Letter

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Shotts band contest today and Markinch tomorrow. Weather forecast good for both. Results for the first on the RSPBA website and the second here as soon as we get them. Tom Johnstone, Scottish Organiser for the Lorient Festival, has sent these details about this year piping events: Pipers representing Scotland: Callum Moffat, David Shedden and Fred Morrison. Scottish Judges: Andrew Frater and Bruce Hitchings The MacCrimmon Trophy, for which contestants play music from…

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Greenville SC Games and Jimmy McIntosh Contest

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Greenville Highland Games Professional Piping, May 29, 2016 By Robert Wallace The  most impressive aspect of the Jimmy McIntosh MBE piobaireachd competition (held as part of the Greenville SC Highland Games) was the level of musicianship of the participants. They demonstrated an understanding of time signatures and phrasing not always heard on the professional stage. Much of that can be credited to Jimmy himself. Now 90 and living in Anderson, South…

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Blair Atholl Games Results (updated & pix added)

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A warm, dry, sunny day.  A Piob 1 D Urquart (Earl of Ross’s March) 2 P McCalister (I Gave a Kiss to the King’s Hand) 3 C Sutherland (My King Has Landed in Moidart) 4 W Geddes  (Lament for MacSwan of Roaig) 5 M Elder 6 J Greenlees; Judges: T Speirs, S Shedden B Piob 1 A Wright 2 B Duncan 3 C McDougall 4 C Watson 5 R Miller…

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PP Editor’s Blog: Greenville Games/ British Critique/ Alex Kiddie/ New Trophy Solo Games

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I am writing this on the balcony of Jimmy and Joyce McIntosh’s lovely home in Anderson, South Carolina. I’m here for the local Greenville Games which begin on Saturday and end on Sunday with the professional piping and a workshop in the Crowne Plaza Hotel. The journey from Scotland via Newark is about 20 hours door to door depending on lay over time in NJ. The temperature here is 84…

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