Category: Solo Piping

Uist & Barra 2025 Results

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This competition was held today, March 1, at the Piping Centre in Otago Street, Glasgow. Pipers were given their tunes one week in advance. There was an appreciative audience throughout the day. Ten invited pipers competed. Ceòl Mòr for the Glasgow Highland Club Medal1 Angus MacColl, £220, Red Speckled Bull2 Callum Beaumont, £175, Lament for the Earl of Antrim, 3 Calum Brown, £110, A Son’s Salute to his Parents MSR1 Stuart…

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Uist & Barra/ Jimmy McIntosh Workshop

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The Uist & Barra Invitational, the first professional piping contest of the year, takes place tomorrow in the Piping Centre at the old College of Piping building in Otago Street, Glasgow. Judges are Dr Bill Wotherspoon and William Morrison. Invited pipers and their piobaireachd in playing order are:   1. William McCallum, Old Men of the Shells2. Stuart Liddell MBE, Beloved Scotland3. Angus D MacColl, Red Speckled Bull4. Sarah Muir,…

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Silver Chanter Details Announced/ Ardmore Cup Results

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The following pipers have been invited to compete for the 2025 Silver Chanter, qualifying win in brackets: Craig Sutherland, Crieff, (Inverness Gold Medal), Nick Hudson, Texas, (Inverness Clasp), Alasdair Henderson, Dunoon, (Snr. Piob., Oban), Derek Midgley, New Jersey, (Dunvegan Clasp), Sandy Cameron, Roy Bridge, (Dunvegan Medal), and Cameron Drummond, Edinburgh, (Oban Gold Medal). The competition will be held in at the Gaelic College, Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, Skye, on August 6. The judge is…

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Editor’s Notebook: Dollar Contest/ Lochaber Piping Society/ Cupar PB/ EUSPBA Rankings

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I hear that Dollar Academy are once more running their popular and successful pipe band contest at the end of May. All grades and D/Ms are catered for I believe. Ample and picturesque grounds at the foot of the Ochils make a perfect setting for such an event. Reasonably easy to get to, the contest always attracts a large entry. If I were running the RSPBA I’d be on the…

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Draw for Archie Kenneth Quaich/ Police Scotland Seek Leading Drummer

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The Archie Kenneth Quaich is the top prize for amateur piobaireachd players. It is run by the Music Committee of the Piobaireachd Society. The competition takes place at the rooms of the Royal Scottish Pipers’ Society in Edinburgh on February 22nd. The competition is fully subscribed. The judges are PS committee members Derek Fraser and Darach Urquhart. Here is the order of play: 1  Thomson McConnell2  Donald Morrison3  Stewart Allan4…

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