Chatsworth Results for professional and amateur solo piping events held Sunday 6th September. Open Piobaireachd 1. William McCallum – Lament for the Children 2. Peter Hunt – Tulloch Ard 3. Andrew Hall – The Battle of Auldearn (No. 2) Open 2/4 March 1. William McCallum 2. Peter Hunt 3. Andrew Hall Open Strathspey & Reel 1. William McCallum 2. Peter Hunt 3. Andrew Hall Open 6/8 March 1. Peter Hunt…
Gold Clasp (for former winners of the Gold Medal) 1 £500 Callum Beaumont, MacLeod of Colbeck’s Lament 2 £350 Angus MacColl, Lament for the Earl of Antrim 3 £200 Stuart Liddell, Lament for Donald Ban MacCrimmon 4 £150 Andrew Hayes, Lament for Patrick Og 5 £100 William McCallum, Lament for the Children Judges: IM Morrison, J Taylor, R Wallace Champion Piper: Angus MacColl Snr. ‘B’ Grade MSR 1 £125 Angus…
Finlay Johnston completed his set of Highland Society of London Gold Medals when he took the premier award at today’s Northern Meeting in Inverness, writes Robert Wallace. Finlay won the Oban medal three years ago and now joins the select band of double gold medallists. Today the judges described Finlay’s performance of Farewell to the Laird of Islay as ‘beautifully controlled and phrased, perfectly fingered on an immaculate instrument’. You cannot get…
Read adjudicator Dr Jack Taylor’s comments on the 2015 Argyllshire Gathering Gold Medal – erudite, articulate and analytical. You’ll always find the best writers on Piping Press. News of a new juvenile pipe band from Oliver Brownlie. Check out the notice: Still with the bands Ewan McAllister of World Champions Shotts & Dykehead has sent this notice about the forthcoming Shotts Juvenile contest: ‘Building on the success of 2014 we are…
This week the focus of world piping switches to Scotland’s northernmost city, Inverness and our own Theatre of Dreams, Eden Court. Anyone who has ever been to the Northern Meeting piping competitions knows of the tension, the excitement and special atmosphere that surrounds the place and its precincts over the two days of the Meeting. The best pipers in the world are there to do battle for honours they know…
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