Piping Press

A surprise and welcome visitor to last month’s European Pipe Band Championships in Inverness was the US Attorney General, the Honourable William Barr. During a lull in the contest, Mr Barr, a piper for most of his life, kindly agreed to give the Editor Robert Wallace an interview. They are pictured above. After his security detail had swept an office portakabin generously provided by the RSPBA, Mr Wallace switched on the…

Dry, warm day at Argyll’s capital for the annual games. Contests for P/A, B and C grade pipers, Juniors and the Piping Centre’s CLASP amateur league. Results will be added as we get them. Please scroll down to check the various events. P/A Piob1 Cameron MacDougall, Red Speckled Bull2 Jamie Forrester, Battle of Bealach nam Brog3 Sarah Muir4 Connor Sinclair5 Angus D MacColl6 Donald MacPheeJudges: P Henderson, J Wilson P/A…

Pipe Major Richard Parkes MBE was in the spotlight earlier this month when on Monday 1st July he was the recipient of an Honorary Doctorate of Literature for services to music from Queens University, Belfast (QUB), and then three days later on Thursday 4th July he received a second and similar Honorary Doctorate from the University of Ulster. The respect that he is held in, particularly by the members of…

It is the year of Galicia at the 2019 Lorient Festival in Brittany and as ever the promoters have produced a very striking poster and promotional video for the event. Topping the bill is Carlos Nunez the best known of all Galician pipers and a rivetting performer. I don’t have any info on the Scottish contingent this year other than the well known ceilidh group Skippinish. The festival runs from…

A good standard from the youngsters at this picturesque meeting. The result was accumulated from performances of two 2/4 marches, two 6/8s, two jigs and a medley.1 Christopher Happs2 Bobby Allen3 Josh Esson4 Kyle Gordon The judge was Christopher Armstrong.