The prestigious London Championship takes placer at the Kensington Conference Centre next Saturday (November 4). As always the competition has attracted a large entry with many pipers travelling from Scotland and a significant number flying in from North America and elsewhere. The main competition for the Bratach Gorm begins at 8.30am: 1 Andrew Carlisle 2 William McCallum 3 Finlay Johnston 4 Roderick MacLeod 5 Alasdair Henderson 6 Callum Beaumont 7…
President Andrew Hall of the Scottish Piping Society of London: The SPSL committee has been very active over the last few months in planning for this year’s London Competition. We are pleased to announce details of the event below. Notice for Entries to the Annual London Competition Date Saturday November 4th 2017 Venue Kensington Conference Centre, London Closing date for entries September 30th 2017. Late entries will not be accepted. Competitions Premier grade events Piobaireachd: Am Bratach Gorm (7…
President Andrew Hall of the Scottish Piping Society of London reports: I see Harry Stevenson my tutor from back home popped up on the news feed. Harry started me on my first piobaireachd, Glengarry’s Lament, in 1988. I went to him for lessons until I left Northern Ireland in 1994. I thought you and your readers might be interested in a summary from our most recent event at the SPSL. On Saturday…
Reader, and top US piper Jori Chisholm, has sent a request for information on the past winners at London and Blair Castle. Happy to comply, tables have now been added to the Letters pages. Please note, if you have a query regarding any aspect of piping or pipe bands please feel free to contact pipingpress.com and we’ll do our best to get you the answers; which failing we’ll put out…
[easyrotator]erc_14_1414056032[/easyrotator]A lot happening since we last met and thanks for all the support and huge amount of site traffic. Check out the new comments on last week’s blog and on Highland dress. Janet Montague has also made a very fair comment about the way pipers/bands write and play 3/4s. Janet is quite correct when she says we write our music with what should be an anacrusis, within the bar. The problem…
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