Piping Press

A firm of Edinburgh-based landscape garden designers have asked for the assistance of Piping Press to help publicise this very worthwhile WW1 commemoration project….. We have been commissioned via a successful competition process to design the Scottish Garden for a Peace Garden project located in Arras, France. Our project is titled ‘Piper’s Peace’ and celebrates the pipers and Pipe Majors who played an important role throughout the Great War and beyond. We wondered…

The band has sent this…. Oban Pipe Band is delighted to announce the new leadership appointments of Daniel Johnstone and Alan Irvine with immediate effect.  Daniel is taking the reigns as Pipe Major, whilst Alan will be undertaking the role of Lead Drummer. Daniel, 29, is from Oban and has been piping from a very young age. He was initially taught under the instruction of P/M Ronnie Lawrie, then Angus D…

Scots Guards Club 2018/19 Knockout Draw 4pm each date at Scots Guards Club Haymarket Edinburgh  0131 3371084 25 November: Cameron MacDougall  v Jonathan  Simpson 09 December Alan Clark    v    Ross Miller 27 January Calum Watson  v John Dew 24 February Willie Rowe  v  Calum Brown A toss of a coin for order of play on the day. A draw for the semi final will be done in February. Format is 30 minutes…

This annual invitational competition was held in Campbeltown today (Sept. 15). It is sponsored by the local Springbank Distillery. Seven pipers played (pictured below). They were Alasdair Henderson, Callum Beaumont, Finlay Johnston, Roderick MacLeod, William McCallum, Gordon McCready and Cameron MacDougall. Chosen tunes from submitted lists were issued one week in advance. Piobaireachd 1 Roderick MacLeod, Lament for MacSwan of Roaig 2 Callum Beaumont, Mrs Smith’s Salute 3 Gordon McCready,…

Mike Fitzhenry, co-organiser of the Scottish Piping Society of London’s annual championship, has sent the following: ‘We’ve had two cases of competitors thinking they’ve entered but it has not been received. If you were able to use the following for the website I would really appreciate it: A reminder that entries close on September 30th for the SPSL Annual Competition taking place on November 3rd at Kensington Town Hall. The…