Film producer Alexander Menu has writen to PP: ‘I am contacting you to proudly announce my team and I are working on a European short film about a young bagpiper during the First World War. This has been a passion project of mine for many years. ‘The short film, ‘Sound of the Somme’ is about the last day in the journal of 20-year-old bagpiper James C. Richardson, awarded the Victoria…
By Andrew Reid I am looking for some help in finding out the regimental tunes of the Highland Light Infantry. As those who know me well will know, I’m the piper for the Highland Light Infantry City of Glasgow Veterans Association. They’re a good bunch of lads with a keen interest in the history of the regiment and all to do with it. To this end, I thought it’d be only…
Well done to the CPA for having a re-think over their Silver Medal qualification rules, writes the Editor. It shows President Glenn Brown and his team are receptive to different views and opinions, not least those of Alan Clark and Jason Craig who have written so well on the issue in these pages. I think the inclusion of a qualifier in the Southern Hemisphere just had to come and having judged in New…
A new archive recording is posted today. It is from US-based Scot Donald McBride. The excerpts Donald has sent are from a recital he made for the BBC in 1997. Donald is pictured above in 1980. Donald is currently resident in Kansas City and recently underwent a serious hand operation. We wish him well and hope he will be back to playing soon. Donald was taught by his father in…
After considerable pressure from their membership, the Competing Pipers Association and the promoters of the Argyllshire Gathering and Northern Meeting have rethought their Silver Medal qualiying rules for 2019/2020. The main criticism of the original plan announced only two weeks ago was the lack of consultation before decisions were taken and also the absence of any qualifying event in the southern hemisphere. Read our earlier story here. These now seem…
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