Captain JA MacLellan Contest Entries Now Open/ Shotts , Falkirk Contests

WO1 Martin MacDonald, Senior Instructor at the Army School of Bagpipe Music and Highland Drumming has sent this: ‘We  will be holding the third Captain John A. MacLellan MBE Piping Championship at Inchdrewer House, Redford Barracks, Edinburgh on the 14th of November this year. As usual the competition will cover C, B and P/A Grades for both Piobaireachd and MSR and also an Open Hornpipe and Jig. Entries will be taken through…

Argyllshire Gathering 2015 – A Reprise

It is now just over a month since this year’s Argyllshire Gathering …. gone but not forgotten, certainly not by those who had a successful visit to Oban. In this report, the piping correspondent of the London Times, Angus Nicol, gives a comprehensive round up of all the winners and the background to the Gathering. His report also affords us the opportunity to run some photographs we missed first time round. Those wishing to…

Iain Dall MacKay Memorial Junior Piping Championship (pictures added)

Held in Gairloch High School, September 26th Robert Wallace: Well it is good to report that here, right in Iain Dall MacKay country, in the magnificent north-west of Scotland, that the pipe is being taught throughout the region and taught well. School tutors Iain Ruaridh Finlayson (Skye), Gary Nimmo and Alison Sinclair (Ullapool Pipe Band) had many of their young pupils forward and a good account they all gave I…

Lochaber Gathering – a Gratifying Increase in Numbers

Piping Correspondent of the Times in London, Angus Nicol, takes a look back at this year’s Lochaber Gathering, in principal the senior competitions….. CRUINNEACHADH LOCH ABAR:     THE LOCHABER FESTIVAL OF PIPING It was very pleasing to see the great upsurge in the numbers of competitors at all levels after a number of years of very sparse entries. For the Tuagh Oir, for instance, there were 17 entrants of…

Robert Burns Junior Piping, Dumfries

Results of the 16th Robert Burns Piping Contest 5th September 2015; Held in Dumfries Academy, Dumfries; supported by South West Scotland Piping & Drumming Academy Judges were Pipe Major Ross McCrindle  & Sgt Andrew Reid from the Army  School of Bagpipe Music & Highland Drumming in Edinburgh by kind permission of Senior Pipe Major Martin McDonald. Prizes were presented by Andy McCartney representing the South West Scotland Piping & Drumming Academy. A total 45 competitors…