Piping Press

Our annual Piping Press Guide to the Games is published today – but with a warning. Early season games, at least up to the end of June, are under serious threat from the Covid-19 pandemic. (Ipswich Piping Society have just announced the postponement of Callum Beaumont’s recital in the city on March 20.) Already this morning we have learned of the cancellation of Inverness Games which were due to take…

The British Pipe Band Championships, the first RSPBA major of the season, were cancelled today by the promoter Renfrewshire District Council in consultation with the RSPBA. A spokesman for the council said that because of the Covid-19 pandemic they were cancelling all council events until the end of June 2020 and these included the championships. No further comment was made. The British were due to be staged at St James…

Logan Tannock, President of the Scottish Pipers’ Association, has sent this: ‘A Statement from the Scottish Pipers Association – In response to the current Coronavirus outbreak (COVID-19). ‘It is with regret and after much discussion that the committee of the Scottish Pipers Association this afternoon made the decision to postpone both the Adult Amateur competition on Sunday March 29th and the Professional competitions on Saturday April 11th. The committee have…

The RSPBA Board of Directors has just issued the following statement: In response to the current Coronavirus outbreak (COVID-19), The RSPBA is aware that this is a global crisis, and the situation is changing daily. We are taking our responsibilities to members, supporters, the public and promoters very seriously, and are trying to ensure the least amount of disruption whilst putting their health and safety first.At this point in time,…

By Robert Wallace If what I have read this morning is true then I believe it may be time for the RSPBA to consider cancelling or postponing some of the 2020 major championships. Robert Peston of ITN is known to be a particularly well informed journalist. Today he reports that the UK Government will, within the next 20 days, ban all over-70s from leaving home for four months, order the…