The annual Highlands & Islands Festival competitions takes place this Saturday, May 4 in Oban. There are professional classes for P/A, B and C grade as well as a full raft of competitions for juniors (chanter, under 15 and 15-18). After their wins at the SPA Professional last month, both Gordon McCready and Cameron MacDougall will be looking to continue their good start to the year. The contests will be held in…
More than 60% of all seats for the St Laurence O’Toole World’s Week concert have been sold already. The concert entitled ‘Resume’ will be staged at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall on August 15. The promoters, Glasgow Skye Association Pipe Band, are delighted with the uptake so far and urge all those intending to go to what is the biggest pipe band night of the week to get their briefs as…
The Piobaireachd Society is to promote a concert of ceol mor as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this coming August. The concert is entitled ‘Classical Pipe Music – Scotland’s Hidden Treasure’. The date is Sunday, August 12, at 7pm. The venue is the newly refurbished, 200-seat St Cecilia’s Hall, Edinburgh. The concert is expected to finish around 9.30pm and there will be a small reception afterwards. The pipers invited…
Firstly apologies for the difficulties current on our home page. We are working to solve the issue. Readers should click the News tab at the top left hand of the page to get the latest post. The Donald MacDonald Quaich will be held on Friday 15 June 2018, 7.30pm – 9.30pm at Armadale Castle, Sleat, Skye. Five pipers, last year’s winner Callum Beaumont, Glenn Brown, Alasdair Henderson, Iain Speirs and Craig Sutherland…
Bill Fraser from the US: Rob, You mentioned Tommy Shearer a few weeks ago. I played under him when I was in Connecticut in 1968-72 in the Bridgeport Pipe Band, subsequently the Clan Campbell Pipe Band. Here is a piece I came across from a local paper ‘The Newtown Bee’. Also, a couple of my photos from that time. Of any interest? Best wishes, Bill Fraser (not the Aberdeen one, though we were both at Aberdeen…
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