Caritas Banner Entries/ NZ Concerts This Weekend

We are once again delighted to be hosting the Caritas Banner Piobaireachd Competition for pipers aged 18 & Under, writes P/M Ben Duncan. The date is Sunday 29 November at George Watson’s College, Edinburgh. The competition is 100% piobaireachd and offers three categories: 18 & Under Piobaireachd (submit 2 tunes); 14 & Under Piobaireachd (own choice); 14 & Under Urlar and Variation (own choice). Closing date for entries (£7) is…

Classical Pipe Music in the Heart of the City of London

If last year’s inaugural London Recital established the formula, this year proved it was no one-off. Black tie, fine wine, Raasay whisky and, most importantly, first-class piping: the second edition of The London Recital delivered another memorable night of ceòl mòr and ceòl beag in the City of London. Photos, a highlights video, and full recordings of the two piobaireachd can be found at www.thelondonrecital.com. But for those who weren’t there,…

Captain John MacLellan Memorial Competition/ Glengarry Cup Results

The ‘Captain John’ was held at the Army School of Piping in Inchdrewer House, Edinburgh, last weekend. Unfortunately we have not been sent the complete results and below is what we have drawn together from other sources. Apologies for any inaccuracies. If anyone has corrections or additions regarding places, names of judges, or tunes played please forward. P Piob: 1 Finlay Johnston 2 William McCallum 3 Stuart Liddell 4 Glenn…

A Look Back at the Career of P/M Harry McNulty – Part 2

We conclude our retrospective on Harry’s outstanding career as piper, pipe major, adjudicator and bagpipe maker. This is from Pipe Band Magazine dated July 2002, and carried under its ‘Know Your Judges’ banner…. Most memorable pipe band performance? I make no excuse for mentioning the Edinburgh City Police band under Donald Shaw Ramsay. He was a master at arranging medleys. He retired prematurely from the pipe band scene, returning for…

Review: ‘A Guide to the Judging of Piping’

This attractive book is structured as follows: firstly a short Foreword by Robert Wallace; then ‘A Code of Practice at a Glance’; ‘A Guide to the Judging of Piping’ by Dugald Graham-Campbell, who was born in 1921, and Malcolm McRae’s comments on that work, ‘A Review of the Guide’. Then we have, James Campbell’s ‘A Different Approach to the Judging Problem’, Colin MacLellan’s ‘A New Approach to a Judging Problem‘,…