Principal Robert Wallace reports: The first ever South Florida Pipe and Drum Academy could be classed as nothing other than an unqualified success. Thirty-three students enjoyed the best part of a week of top class instruction in the arts of piping and drumming. Based in Fort Lauderdale, the school ran for four days leading up to the city’s March 14 St Patrick’s Day celebrations. The instructors, myself, Barry Donaldson, Kansas-based…
The College of Piping has cancelled its New England School for 2015 due to ‘lack of interest’. The school has been running at various venues in the north-east US for the past five years with the 2014 camp at the beautiful Endicott College in Massachusetts considered an outstanding success. Former Principal Robert Wallace, who inaugurated the school in 2010, said it was disappointing that after so much hard work in establishing it, it had…
Respected ceol mor teacher and adjudicator, Duncan Watson, has reviewed Jimmy McIntosh’s new book ‘Ceol Mor for the Great Highland Bagpipe, presented in The Balmoral Tradition’, exclusively for pipingpress.com. In a very detailed and expert analysis, Duncan, himself a long-time pupil of RB Nicol, looks at how the music is set out, comments on notation, the teaching of John MacDonald and the Bobs of Balmoral, and adds entertaining anecdotal information…
Today we publish an interesting letter from John Macdonald, Inverness, to Archibald Campbell, Kilberry. It discusses two tunes, ‘Lament for the Union’ and ‘Lament for Alasdair Dearg MacDonnell of Glengarry.’ Read more here. [wds id=”3″] The newsletter of the Govan Weavers Society reports major progress with the piping initiative in this well-known, but not well off, suburb of Glasgow. It reads: ‘In July it was intimated that the Piping Initiative…
The RSPBA’s comprehensive and updated list of set tunes for Grades 4 and Novice is now available here. All tunes are available for download and the Music Board has selected some great and challenging tunes for the lists. Make sure you have the up to date versions of the tunes. Here’s the first ten 2/4s: Achany Glen (Added for 2015) Atholl and Breadalbane Gathering (Revised for 2015) Auchmountain’s Bonnie Glen (Revised for 2015) Australian…
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