Piping Press

Just released…..The Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association is pleased to announce that the vacant posts of Principals of the Pipe Band College have been filled. Candidates went through a rigorous interview process and the successful candidates are identified as: Principal of Pipe Band Musicianship – Tom Brown. In this role Tom will be responsible for developing strategies to raise the standard of pipe band musicianship and improving performance in the…

Today we print the final part of the special report into pipe band judging commissioned by the RSPBA Adjudicator’s Panel. The 2018 report was conducted by Ms Anne Crookston of the Association of Brass Band Adjudicators. We do not have the tables which accompanied Ms Crookston’s report unfortunately, but nevertheless believe her findings will be of interest to all pipe band followers. As with the first excerpt we print the…

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…