Category: Solo Piping

Uist & Barra Professional Results – Callum is Triumphant

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A very successful competition was held today at the College of Piping in Glasgow. The main hall was very busy throughout the day and hundreds watched this showpiece event live on Livestream. Piping convenor: John Angus Smith; Announcer Catriona MacPhee. The picture above shows the three principal winners Cameron Drummond, Callum Beaumont and Finlay Johnston. This was the second year in a row Callum and Finlay had won their respective…

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PP is Back! – Editor’s Message and Results from Inverness Juniors

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Good news everyone; your favourite piping web magazine is now back in the land of the living, writes the Editor. After a day of frustration caused by a serious outage in the Bluehost servers in the US we were down for a total of 15 hours – not good enough. However to be fair to them they are, by all accounts, one of the most reliable in the business and…

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Revised Line – Up for Uist & Barra Professional

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Leading pipers Roderick MacLeod and William McCallum of the National Piping Centre have withdrawn from the Uist & Barra Professional competition to be held at the College of Piping on Saturday. The revised line-up still features seven Gold Medallists (four of them double), two of whom are Clasp winners.  The order of play and tunes in the ceol mor is now: 1 Glenn Brown, Patrick Òg MacCrimmon’s Lament 2 Finlay Johnston, Craigellachie 3 Callum…

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PP Editor’s Blog: 8th Argylls/ Argylls Book/ Lorient/ SPA/ RSPBA Tunes

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Director of Army Bagpipe Music, Major Gordon Rowan, has sent this picture of the editors in close confab using a giant screen to proof and edit the book. Such technology! No excuse for errors now lads! They are poring over the last tune in the book which is scheduled for launch at the Piping Live festival in August. Don’t forget the Army solo and band contests at Inchdrewer House this…

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Pipers Selected to Play in Gold & Silver Medals at Oban 2017 – Updated with Northern Meeting Lists

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The following pipers have been notified individually of their eligibility to compete in the 2017 Gold and Silver Medals at the Argyllshire Gathering. Torquil Telfer, Piping Convenor at Oban, said they had increased their normal Gold Medal intake by one this year. ‘We received 29 entries and rather than have our usual 28 with one reserve thought it best that on this occasion we accept everyone,’ he said. ‘It makes a…

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