Piping Press

P/M Jimmy Banks MBE Reports: John Dew won our knockout round yesterday (Nov 24) against Lewis Russell held at the Scots Guards club, Haymarket, Edinburgh. We had a good audience of approximately 50. Next up on the last Sunday in January we have Angus McColl Jnr and Calum Wynd.

The RSPBA Music Board has added a handful of new tunes to the lists of those available for Grade 4A, 4B and Novice A & B for the 2020 season. One tune Dora MacLeod has been added erroneously, it seems, to the two-parted strathspey lists. The new tunes are three 2-part marches, three 2-part strathspeys and one 4-part strathspey. The marches: ‘Coppermill’, ‘Corn Rigs are Bonny’ and the ‘White Cockade’. The…

One of the most popular events on the local pipe band scene in recent years has been the Kids with Cancer Charity extravaganza which has taken place over the last few years in the Royal Hotel, Cookstown, Co. Tyrone. I am delighted to announce that it is running again on Saturday 22nd February 2020 from 5.45pm at the same venue. If previous line-ups have been outstanding then those attending this time…

Scots Guards Club Knockout, next round is tomorrow, Sunday 24 November. John Dew and Lewis Russell are the pipers. 4pm start at the SG Club, 2 Clifton Terrace, Haymarket, Edinburgh; tickets £5.00 Pies on sale at interval.

It may have been a financial failure, but 2009’s ‘Homecoming Scotland’ project brought a focus to all the things that are good about the country, certainly from a piping point of view. Ten years on they are just as relevant and brought to mind an encounter I had on a cruise holiday just before HS kicked off, writes the Editor….. Reg was in full flow. ‘I’ve been all over the…