I must say that from what little I saw of the Donald MacLeod livestreaming (on the mobile phone) it all looked very professionally done. A high quality production with three cameras deployed so that the angles could be varied by the show’s director. Good to see BBC Radio nan Gaidheal there too so we can look forward to hearing the music in improved harmonic depth via Cailean MacLean’s excellent show on…
William McCallum was declared the overall champion at today’s Donald MacLeod Memorial competition held at the Caladh Inn, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, after placing first in both Ceol Mor and Ceol Beag. Runner-up was Iain Speirs. In an extremely generous gesture, the competing pipers waived their fees for playing – the money going towards the continuation of the contest next year. Fear an Tighe John Smith also paid tribute to…
The New England Piping Academy will hold its first summer camp this coming June. Venue is the Adelynrood Retreat & Conference Centre near Byfield, MA, a beautiful woodland setting perfect for bagpipe study and relaxation. The official blurb reads: The New England Piping Academy will hold its first summer camp at Adelynrood Conference Centre, Byfield, MA, from June 24 – 28. The Principal of the Academy is Robert Wallace one of the…
The organisers of the prestigious Donald MacLeod Memorial Competition have gone public to express their disapproval of the withdrawal of two world-famous pipers from the event which takes place on the isle of Lewis in the Western Isles tomorrow (April 10). The Lewis and Harris Piping Society say they are bitterly disappointed at the withdrawals of Douglas Murray and Gordon Walker 24 hours before the competitors were due to fly to…
The above photograph has been languishing in the PP files for some time and we wonder if any of our many readers in Canada can identify the band or the personnel. It is an historic photograph, 100 plus years old, and is dated on the back July 10th, 1914. The place is given as simply ‘eastern Ontario’. Interesting to check out the attire of the bystanders. Dress seems to have been…
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