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North Games Champion Receives the Glass Chanter

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Champion Piper at the North of Scotland’s Highland Games 2024 is Angus MacPhee, Inverness. He was presented with the new Glass Chanter Trophy and a cheque during a break at last week’s Northern Meeting. The new perpetual trophy, inscribed ‘Champion Piper, North Highland Games Circuit’, replaces an earlier version which has gone missing. Angus said: ‘I am very honoured to have won the Glass Chanter this year. I have always…

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Inveraray Pipe Band Victory Parade/ Chatsworth Results

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World Pipe Band Champions Inveraray and District held a victory march through their home village on Saturday (August 31st). A large crowd enjoyed sunny weather as they welcomed the band to the Argyllshire tourist hotspot. Two weeks earlier P/M Stuart Liddell MBE and his pipers and drummers secured their third Worlds title at Glasgow Green triumphing over Northern Ireland’s Field Marshal Montgomery Pipe Band and other top bands in a…

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Birnam Games Results

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We have gaps in the prizewinners’ list for this games, held in beautiful weather in the Perthshire village last Saturday (Aug 31). Thirteen entered. Champion Piper was Greig Canning, Fife. If anyone can supply the missing names, and/or tunes, we’d be very grateful. Piobaireachd, three tunes1 Dan Lyden2 Bobby Durning3 Mike Fitzhenry4 Greig Canning5 Andrew Donlon March, two tunes1 Andrew Donlon2 Greig Canning3 Brian Lamond4 Dan Nevans5 Hector Munro S&R,…

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Leading Drummer Joe Noble 1942 – 2024

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The death had been reported of well-known drummer and former RSPBA adjudicator, Joe Noble. He was 82. Joe had been suffering from pancreatic cancer and died at home in Bearsden, Glasgow. He started his drumming career in the 214th Glasgow Company of the Boys’ Brigade. He originally wanted to be a piper but as the company band had a surfeit, and a shortage of drummers, he was encouraged to switch…

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P/M Malcolm M Mackenzie 1936 – 2024

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The death had been reported of P/M Malcolm ‘Malky’ Mackenzie, a huge figure in the pipe band movement for over 50 years. He was 85. His son Donald, also a noted piper, said: ‘It is with a heavy heart I report the passing of my dad. He passed away this morning after a short battle with mesothelioma. ‘The piping world was his life’s passion and he made many, many friends…

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