Piping Press

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…

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.