Piping Press

Piping Press editor Robert Wallace will be conducting a class in ceol mor separate, but during the RSPBA Summer School this forthcoming August. The dates are August 5, 7 & 9 and the class runs from 10.30am until 12.30pm and from 1pm until 2pm each of the three days. The venue is the Gaelic School, Berkeley Street, Glasgow G3 7HP. Students should bring chanter, pipes, recorder and music, though tutor books will be available…

Grim, grey, wet and well worn, that’s our intrepid MacStig, not Lurgan. Well, maybe both…….  Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. Victorian Public Parks with low lying aspects, in small towns with limited infrastructure, where one bus can block the main arterial street and a gilet jaune in a rain mac, waving arms, is the central control – what could possibly go wrong? The weather was the literal dampener in…

BY ROBERT MACNEILL In sunny and hot weather, the 2019 BC Highland Games and Scottish Festival was held on June 15 at its new venue of Lafarge Lake Park in Coquitlam, BC. 125 solo players and 14 bands competed. Alastair Lee, Grant Maxwell, and Lauren Tietze won the aggregates for Open Piping, Snare Drumming, and Tenor Drumming, respectively. Alastair Lee also captured the Open Piobaireachd on the Friday evening. The…

The annual games were held today at Hazelhead Park, Aberdeen. There was a good entry; weather changeable. Piping Convenor Dr Jack Taylor: ‘Decent turnout of 10 plus 14 juniors which is encouraging. Only problem was culture clash with the ‘big stage’ behind the Piobaireachd board blasting out a thudding dance beat from time to time. ‘I’ve my eye on a quieter spot amongst the rhododendrons for next year. This was excellent…

By Mike Rogers Congratulations to all the participants in the 33rd annual United States Piping Foundation Amateur and Professional Piping Championships, held in memory of founder Maclean Macleod on 15 Jun 2019, in the Amy DuPont Music Building at the University of Delaware, Newark, DE! In the Amateur events there were 7 pipers from throughout North America, and 14 in the Professional events.   The adjudicators for the Amateur Competitions…