Piping Press

The annual UK Pipe Band Championship moved to a wet Lurgan Park in Northern Ireland today. The results in Grade 1 were: 1 SLOT2 FMM3 Inveraray4 S Power5 Boghall6 Fife Police with the drumming going to SLOT. St Laurence achieves straight 1s in all judging categories. They are captured celebrating below in this office shot by photographer Lee Bisset: The other grades:G21 Closkelt2 Ravara3 Manorcunningham4 MacKenzie Caledonian5 Annan6 Buchan PetersonDrums:…

By Robert Wallace Late one morning earlier this week I attended a concert ‘Our Oldest Tradition’ given by John Dew of Inveraray Pipe Band and one of our foremost young players. The concert was to mark the end of his BMus Trad – Piping degree third year at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.  The performance was given in the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow’s Sauchiehall Street. Such is the…

The 2019 Northern Meeting will be held from August 29 – 30 in Eden Court Theatre, Inverness. The promoters have today issued all competitors with the running order in each competition.

‘This way that way, forward and back and over the Irish Sea.A bottle of rum to fill my tum and that’s the life for me.’ Dear Reader, By the time you are cantering through this piece I will most likely be bobbing around on a floating piece of metal in the midst of the crossing from auld Scotia to Ulster, writes MacStig. The physics of heavy metal floating on salt…

The terrorist atrocity in Sri Lanka a couple of months back postponed the scheduled meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES). This meant that the planned dispensation for bagpipes and other African blackwood instruments will have to wait a few months more. It had been proposed that the meeting would agree a proposal that finished instruments would henceforth be considered exempt from costly licences and paperwork….