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Skye Gathering/ Morar Results/ RSPBA £50k CEO

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Skye Gathering is underway in Portree with the hotly contested Dunvegan Medal the centrepiece. Twenty-eight pipers are vying for the award, all submitting four MacCrimmon connected tunes. The winner will be announced late afternoon. Here is the order of play: S Klinger, M Kessler, K Bowes, S Leask, T Krogh, E Cameron, B Watson-Massey, A Kummerlöw, G Canning, G Barclay, A Hall, J Elder, C Carn, E Gaul, A MacPhee,…

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Weekend Games Round Up

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Three games were held last Saturday and despite the clash of dates all managed to secure decent entries. Firstly Newtonmore in Badenoch, Calum Piobair country…. John Don MacKenzie on Piobaireachd and Niall Mathieson, the light music. Condition were bright and dry, a day for the big tunes and that’s what the pipers delivered. Champion Piper: Callum Wynd (pictured). Callum can be heard in recital next Sunday at the Piobaireachd Society’s…

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Weekend Games Round Up (Updated)

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Four games were held at the weekend the results of which we have yet to record. Entries at a couple, Airth and Lochearnhead, were affected by the clash with the Scottish Pipe Band Championships at Dumbarton. Firstly Halkirk in Caithness…. On a very blustery day, six competitors entered the senior piping. Due to the conditions it was decided to move all competitions indoors. Judge DJ MacInyre was positioned in an…

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Highlands & Islands Young Piper of the Year

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This competition is organised by Comann Piobaireachd Uibhist agus Bharraigh. Prizewinners are pictured above following the awards ceremony in the Dark Island Hotel, Benbecula, on July 23. The competition was held in Sgoil Lionacleit. The age limit for the senior event is 30. Ceòl Mòr: 1 Angus MacPhee  2 Calum Craib 3 Thomas Cangelosi 4 Magnus Stone  March: 1 Calum Craib 2 Angus MacPhee 3 Micheal MacLellan 4 Thomas Cangelosi …

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Durness Games Results

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Five played in biblical winds at Durness today. Mostly grey, sun peeked through a few times, turned rainy later in the day. 27mph winds forced piper Calum Dunbar off the board in the piobaireachd. He was second on, and in the ground of the King’s Taxes, turned his back to wind and the drones blew off his shoulder. Character-building! DJ McIntyre judged.  Piob: 1. Ursa Beckford, MacCrimmon’s Sweetheart 2. Norman Gillies, Beloved…

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