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…
The above picture is of three doughty Scots Guards pipers (l to r) P/Sgt Jimmy Banks, Iain Wood and P/M Angus MacDonald. It looks as though the picture was taken in the early 1970; venue unknown. Jimmy and Angus are well known to everyone in the piping world but I would be grateful for more on Iain Wood who I’m afraid I don’t know. Reminder: entries for the Highlands &…
Most readers will be aware of the winners of the World Pipe Band Championship over the years. Indeed many of you will be able to reel off the names of those bands who’ve made it to the number one position and maybe even the year(s) in which they did it. However how many can remember all the great bands who ‘only’ got second? Not a lot we think. Yet the…
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