Category: Solo Piping

PP Editor’s Blog: Grampian Placings/ Roddy Ross/ BB Letter/ Piobaireachd Analysis

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Patricia Grant has sent the final placings in the John Milne Fine Arts Grampian Games Association Piping League 2016. Well done to all those pipers, junior and senior, who supported these important north-east games. Patricia writes: ‘It is encouraging to see that there are new names appearing on the League placings and hopefully the efforts of the Grampian Games Association to promote all aspects of Highland games is paying off.  I know that…

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Hugh ‘Baggy’ MacMillan/ Duncan MacDiarmid/ Side Lights Review

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We regret to have to report the passing of London stalwart Hugh ‘Baggy’ MacMillan and of Duncan MacDiarmid, of the Atholl Highlanders. On Hugh, Roddy Livingstone of the Scottish Piping Society of London has sent this: ‘Former SPSL President Hugh ‘Baggy’ MacMillan passed away after a short illness in Croydon University Hospital in the early hours of Wednesday 7th September. ‘He was born into a piping family, his father Malcolm…

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Northern Meeting 2016 – The Former Winners’ March, Strathspey & Reel

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Our first report from this year’s Northern Meeting covers the premier ceol beag event, the Former Winners’ March, Strathspey and Reel held in Eden Court Theatre on the evening of the first day of the Meeting. Just to qualify to play in this competition is a considerable achievement – you must have won the now amalgamated  ‘A’ grade MSR or the previously separate Northern Meeting ‘A’ March or ‘A’ Strathspey &…

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Archie Kenneth Quaich Entries Open/ Bands Fees Due/ World Solo Drumming

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THE ARCHIE KENNETH QUAICH COMPETITION The twenty-fifth annual amateur Piobaireachd competition for the Archie Kenneth Quaich will take place on Saturday, 4th March 2017, in the rooms of The Royal Scottish Pipers’ Society, 127 Rose Street Lane South, Edinburgh, starting at 10am. Entries and enquiries to Alan Forbes, 24 Garscube Terrace, Edinburgh EH12 6BN.   Tel: 0131-337 4094 or e-mail: alan.forbes@btinternet.com Competitors should submit two tunes with their entries, one…

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Glenfiddich Championship Announce Invitees and judges

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The organisers of the annual Glenfiddich Championships to be held at Blair Castle on October 29th have invited the following pipers to compete: Roderick MacLeod William McCallum Alasdair Henderson Angus MacColl Ian K MacDonald Bruce Gandy Finlay Johnston Jack Lee Stuart Liddell Iain Speirs Judges for the ceol mor are: Iain MacFadyen, William Morrison, Jack Taylor; ceol beag: Ian Duncan, Ian McLellan and Iain Murdo Morrison. Glenfiddich were in the…

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