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…
Canadian piper, writer and composer Michael Grey has published a review of the new children’s book published by Piping Press…. I picked up the new children’s book, Young MacCrimmon and the Silver Chanter as a Christmas present for a (lucky) kid on my list. It’s a rare book that doesn’t gift its reader some new insight or bit of knowledge. Written by Mick Broderick and Robert Wallace and illustrated by Norman Matheson, this children’s book didn’t…
Spent an enjoyable day at Johnstone Pipe Band yesterday assessing young pipers for their PDQB exams. A nice bunch of kids and before we began I got them together for a short pep talk. I explained that this was not a competition but an assessment and that all they had to do was play their five chosen tunes cleanly and correctly and they had to pass. I asked them to…
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