Category: Solo Piping

New Knockout Contest Aims to Bring Europe’s Best Pipers Together


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The European Knockout Bagpipe Competition is an innovative and thrilling event designed to showcase the best talent from across the continent. Modelled after the Eurovision Song Contest, this competition aims to celebrate the bagpipe traditions of different European countries while fostering a sense of unity and camaraderie within the piping community.
 The goal is to reach a wider community than the typical piping audience. Next year each participating country will…

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SPA Veterans Results/ Ardmore Cup Details/ NZ Bands

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Five played in the Scottish Pipers’ Association Veterans competition held at the Piping Centre in Glasgow last Friday (December 6). Only first places for each category were awarded.  The judge was Tom Johnstone who is pictured far left (above) with the contestants, Logan Tannock, Dave Mason (new member), Brian Mulhearn, Neil Cameron and George Johnstone. Results: Slow Air: Logan Tannock ; 2/4 March: George Johnston ; Medley: Dave Mason. Details of…

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Review: An Alternative Desperate Battle of the Birds

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By Duncan Watson A few weeks ago I attended a talk at Aberdeen University’s Storytelling Festival. It was given by Jamie MacDonald Reid with musical accompaniment by a cellist. The title was ‘The Desperate Battle of the Birds’ and that’s what sparked my interest. I was not sure what to expect. I thought we would have the usual story backed up with extracts of the tune: the cock birds stalking each…

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Editor’s Notebook: Reid Pipes/ RSPBA Majors/ SPA Veterans/ Brittany Events

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An intriguing story has come in following yesterday’s about Willie Reid’s ‘MacDougall’ pipes. Reader Robert Stewart writes, ‘As a teenager I new Willie Reid well. ‘Latterly, before emigrating to New Zealand, he was P/M of the Glasgow Fire Service Pipe Band. On one of my regular visits to his barber shop he was quite excited. ‘One of his bandsmen had attended a fire at an old cottage and found a…

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Catriona Hill and PS Summer School/ Scottish Pipers’ Veterans Entries

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The Piobaireachd Society has announced that their 2025 Summer School of Ceol Mòr has sold out with 31 students signed up, a significant increase from this year. The school takes place at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig Gaelic College on the island of Skye from June 1 – 6. President Robert Wallace said: ‘There is considerable appetite for high level instruction in ceol mòr. The Society is delighted to be able to…

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