Category: Results

National Mod Piping Results (updated with Pictures, Audio, Video and Comment)

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Robert Wallace: Jonathan Greenlees emerged as Champion Piper at the National Mod piping competitions held in Oban on Saturday. Jonathan won the Ceol Mor with Lament for Donald Duaghal MacKay and placed third in the MSR to take the overall prize. Only eight pipers competed in the senior events although 14 had entered. The standard was mixed but the prizewinners in the above events all played well with Jonathan’s Donald…

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

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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…

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Argyllshire Gathering 2015 – A Reprise

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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…

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Iain Dall MacKay Memorial Junior Piping Championship (pictures added)

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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…

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Lochaber Gathering – a Gratifying Increase in Numbers

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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…

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