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Piobaireachd Society Announce Recommended Set Tunes for Oban and Inverness 2024

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The Music Committee of the Piobaireachd Society has recommended the following set tunes for next year’s Argyllshire Gathering and Northern Meeting: GOLD MEDAL – Six (6) tunes to be submittedBig SpreeBlack Donald’s March*Blue Ribbon*MacDougall’s GatheringNameless, hiharin odin, hiharin droGlen is Mine*Clanranald’s Salute*Farwell to the Laird of Islay*Battle of Sheriffmuir*Gunns’ Salute * Crunluath a mach variation required. SILVER MEDAL – four (4) tunes to be submittedLament for MacSwan of RoaigGathering of…

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Balmoral Schools Announce EUSPBA Scholarship Match Funding Initiative/ Strathallan School Rock On

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This year, the Eastern United States Pipe Band Association is offering eight $250 scholarships to be awarded to either pipers or drummers, and to be used for schools, lessons, or workshops. By Elaine Lee The Balmoral School of Piping & Drumming is happy to announce that we will provide matching funds to any recipient of an EUSPBA scholarship who chooses to use their scholarship to attend our 2023 summer schools….

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Bid to Identify Iain MacPherson’s Pipes

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I was taught by Donald MacPherson and remember him talking about his brother Iain who died mid 1990s and that he lived abroad. He spoke very highly of how good he was but how he was not really into solo competition. By Bruce Erskine The reason for this article is that I had the great pleasure recently of playing Iain’s pipes. My friend Willie Kidd, who is a little older…

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Review: Piobaireachd Society Conference – A Successful Return After Fallow Period

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This was the first Piobaireachd Society Conference for four years. It was held in the Fair City of Perth. If we’d listened we might have heard the Bells.  But there was never enough silence so enthusiastic was the chatter and the tunes.  The Royal George Hotel proved an ideal venue, a stone’s throw from St John’s Church where those bells still ring. Friends old and new gathered on Friday evening. …

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Outstanding Recital and Increased Entry at Lochaber Junior Piping and Drumming Competition

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Thanks again from Lochaber Piping Society to our sponsors including the Piobaireachd Society, Pipe Dreams, McCallum Bagpipes, the Piping Centre, Sabhal Mor Ostaig and RG Hardie, for their really generous support for our Youth Piping & Drumming Competition, held last Saturday, March 25. Without the support of our sponsors, whether financial or with prizes-in-kind, we could not contemplate holding an event of this nature. Likewise, the work put in by…

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