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This footage from the 1995 Northern Meeting is courtesy the late Owen Nash, Manchester:
Journalist and musician Erik Spence filmed this excerpt of a BBC programme on the 1982 National Mod held in Portree, Skye. It shows PP Editor Robert Wallace playing part of a march, strathspey and reel. Erik made the film using a handheld video camera:
P/M Richard Parkes leads his Field Marshal Montgomery Pipe Band from Glasgow Green after he secured his record-equalling 12th Worlds….
This video features Dr Roddy Ross (1921-2016) giving a talk to the Piobaireachd Society Conference at Fisher’s Hotel, Pitlochry, in 2009. Dr Ross looks at the origins of ceòl mòr and what drove the MacCrimmons to compose their masterpieces…..
A slideshow depicting the life and times of P/M Donald MacLeod. The music is MacCrimmon’s Sweetheart played on the clarsach by Simon Chadwick and recorded at the Piobaireachd Society Conference in 2016:
Some shots from the 2016 Uist & Barra:
Sound of the Waves Against the Castle of Duntroon played by Donald McBride:
Duncan MacGillivray at the 2015 Iain Dall MacKay Memorial playing part of the Unjust Incarceration…..
This is video is from a programme made by Scottish Television in 1991 of the Uist & Barra Professional Piobaireachd. It features many of today’s piping personalities in their younger day including the winner Robert Wallace, Andrew Wright, Roderick MacLeod, William McCallum, Ronald MacShannon and Allan MacDonald:
The Highland village of Ullapool comes to a halt for the funeral of Pipe Major Alasdair Gillies:
Argyllshire Gathering Through the Ages – a slideshow featuring many of the great names in piping:
Robert Wallace plays the ground of the piobaireachd Too Long in this Condition which was part of the Piobaireachd Society’s ‘Lockdown Challenge’ in 2020:
Dave Mason plays his winning tune in a competition for a 6/8 march for Aberdeen war hero John Cruikshank VC:
Patrick Molard plays the ground of Lament for the Children from Donald MacDonald’s MS:
Iain Speirs performing at the 2015 Piobaireachd Society Conference in a tribute to Donald MacPherson his teacher:
The mach to the games at Oban…an annual ritual at the Argyllshire Gathering, the parade led by the previous day’s Gold Medallist; years covered 2019, 2011:
