Category: Results

Review of Playing at Glenfiddich

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[easyrotator]erc_12_1414049835[/easyrotator] PP editor Robert Wallace has completed a critique of the piping at yesterday’s Glenfiddich Championship held at Blair Castle. Read what he has to say  here. His report includes comments on the playing of the eventual winner Stuart Liddell. [easyrotator]erc_14_1414056032[/easyrotator]

Glenfiddich Result

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The 2014 championship was won by Stuart Liddell (pictured above on his way to victory and below with the trophy) who placed 3rd in Ceol Mor and 2nd in the MSR. Runner-up was Bruce Gandy and third Roderick MacLeod. . Full results Ceol mor 1 Roderick MacLeod, Isabel MacKay 2 Bruce Gandy, Big Spree 3 Stuart Liddell, Lament for Colin Roy MacKenzie 4 William McCallum, Rout of the Lowland Captain…

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Festival of Juvenile Solo Piping 2014

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Festival of Juvenile Solo Piping Saturday, 18 October 2014 Auchenharvie Academy, Stevenston, Ayrshire, run by the Caledonian Piping Club 10  & Under Chanter 1 Billy Smith​, Corberry Park Pipers ​2 Finan Harkness​​, Midlothian ​3 Katie Roy​, Irvine & District PB ​4 ​Molly Robertson, ​Corberry Park Pipers ​ ​11 & Under Chanter 1 ​Calum Ramsay​, Caledonian Piping Club ​2 ​Scott McDonald,​ Caledonian Piping Club ​3 ​Connor McBlane, ​Greenwood Academy ​ ​11…

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World Solo Drumming (updated comment and pix)

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Steven McWhirter of Inveraray and District won his fifth World Solo title today at the championship held in Glasgow Caledonian University. His accompanist was his pipe major, Stuart Liddell. Drummers play to selections: Hornpipe and Jig and March, Strathspey and Reel with the latter gaining more points. Runner up to Steven was Michael McKenna from St Laurence O’Toole. Ireland (north and south) took three of the top places, Canada one,…

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PP Editor’s Blog Additions

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New comment re Northern Meeting Dress and Deportment: ‘My late piping instructor of 25 years, Jimmy Greig (Edinburgh Police, Clan MacFarlane Pipe Band) learned his piping from 1945 to 1952 in the 1st Battalion The Black Watch, under Pipe Major James Jenkinson.  Jimmy once described his former P.M. to me as….’ Read more here… [easyrotator]erc_75_1413484305[/easyrotator] Bob Worrall has re-affirmed the link for the Glenfiddich streaming: ‘Here’s how to access the Live…

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