North Lanarkshire Schools’ Pipe Bands are taking part in National Tartan Day in New York this April and have launched a fundraising appeal to help towards equipment and travel costs. Pupils, parents and staff have already raised thousands of pounds through a range of activities but are hoping that a wider appeal will add to this amount. Sir Billy Connolly will lead the April 6 parade as Grand Marshal with…
Good and bad news on the music tuition front – piping and drumming included. Midlothian Council have decided to scrap plans to axe all music tuition in schools. (Incredible that they even considered this.) Well done to the councillors who saw the light and to the protesters who helped them see it. Perth & Kinross Council is apparently proposing to raise music tuition from £295 to £816 per year I’m…
Denis Browning in Australia: ‘I was flicking through some music books recently, your ‘Glasgow Collection’ being one of them. ‘I read your notes at the beginning regarding the gracing of certain parts of the Sheepwife i.e. G,D,E,D as opposed to G,D,G,D, and I realised that I had seen this written elsewhere. ‘My first tutor was P/M Mick Haggerty (Cameron Highlanders) and I am lucky enough to have in my possession his…
Well what a week that was. Small but perfectly formed, the 2019 Florida P&D Academy went like a breeze and Jacksonville proved a perfect location. Plans are already underway for 2020. We might change the date, moving it back a week to butt on to the North East Florida Highland Games. The school could then prove attractive to those competing there and wishing to brush up on their skills beforehand….
Metro Cup Invitational Solo Piping Competition, Newark, New Jersey, 16 February 2019. Overall: Callum Beaumont (pictured playing at the Piobaireachd Society’s Edinburgh Fringe concert last August). Piobaireachd1st Derek Midgley, Lord Lovat’s Lament2nd Callum Beaumont, Lament for the Earl of Antrim3rd Andrew Carlisle, The Red Speckled Bull4th Angus D. MacColl, The Battle of the Pass of Crieff5th Alex Gandy, Rory McLoude’s Lament Judges: John Cairns, Michael Cusack Medley1st Callum Beaumont2nd…
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