Piping Press

Alan Bevan won the Open Piping aggregate and Jack Lee captured the MacCrimmon Memorial Cairn for Open Piobaireachd at the 2019 BCPA Annual Gathering on April 19 & 20 at North Delta Secondary School, Delta, BC, writes BCPA President Robert MacNeil. With his win, Jack has won the Cairn 14 times across five decades. Grant Maxwell won the Open Snare Drumming aggregate. In Grade 1, Tori Killoran won the Piping…

On Saturday last (April 20th) the Lisnagarvey High School was the setting for both the 2019 Ulster Solo Piping and Drumming Championships and the RSPBA NI Branch World Adult Solo Drumming (WSD) qualifier. There was an entry of sixty four pipers, thirty eight side drummers and twenty one tenor drummers with very few drop outs. The adjudicators were Piping: Robert Barnes, Mark Faloon, Rachel Moloney, Harry Stevenson, and Richard Parkes…

Zephan Knichel of Surrey, BC, won the Competing Pipers Association B Grade Piobaireachd event at the British Columbia Pipers’ Association Annual Gathering on April 19, 2019, writes BCPA President Robert MacNeill. With the win Zephan qualifies for the Silver Medal at the 2020 Argyllshire Gathering and 2020 Northern Meeting. Brad Davidson of Waterloo, Ontario, captured the CPA C Grade piobaireachd event. Full results were:CPA B Grade Piobaireachd Silver Medal Qualifier1….

By L/D Arthur Cook Following on from recent articles regarding females in the piping and pipe band world, the Glasgow Skye Association Pipe Band have recruited a new bass drummer and additional tenor drummers for the 2019 season. This now gives the band its first all female bass section comprising of a bass and seven tenor drummers. This may be the first all female bass section in Grade 1?  With…

The Pipers’ & Pipe Band Society of Ontario is pleased to announce the first annual Silver Medal Qualifier contest open to CPA members with a B grading to be held in Georgetown, Ontario (exact location TBD) on Friday, June 7, 2019 at 7:00pm. This qualifier event will provide the winner with entry into the Silver Medal events at both the Argyllshire Gathering and the Northern Meeting in 2020. In addition to the Silver…