Report and results by Andrew Cromie Pics by Brian Hasson, Norman Bell and Alan Cupples Closkelt continued their magnificent start to the 2018 pipe band season with another dominant performance, this time at the Mid Ulster Pipe Band Championships held last Saturday, June 2. Cookstown High School provided the venue but it was the Co Down band that was the toast of Co Tyrone on a fine day with lots…
Margaret Dunn reports…Results from the Army School of Piping CLASP competition. The competition was held on Saturday, 2nd June and the judges were Tom Speirs and Connor Sinclair. Thanks to Alister Sinclair for the pictures. Participants are pictured above. Overall Winners: Grade 1 Stewart Gaudin Grade 2 Bianca Kail Grade 3 Dugald MacLeod Grade 3 Piobaireachd Ground 1st Robert Thomson 2nd Dugald MacLeod 3rd Joris Panis Grade 3 – Full Piobaireachd…
And so it came to pass that there we were midst the mightily magnificent grandeur of Glasgow Cathedral. The organ thundered the ‘Bridal Chorus’ from Wagner’s Lohengrin, necks craned, eyes dampened and into our vision stepped a beautiful bride gracefully leaving her father to take her place beside her intended. This was piping’s Wedding of the Year, the union of Darach Urquhart and Helen Wilkinson. The warmth of the June day…
Damp field in Fife at John Dixon Park, Markinch. Chieftain was the popular solo piping adjudicator P/M Jimmy Banks MBE. Senior Results Piob (17 played) 1 Jonathan Greenlees 2 Ross McCrindle 3 Calum Brown 4 William Rowe Judges: A Frater, A Wright MSR (18 played) 1 Ben Duncan 2 Callum Brown 3 Scott Wallace 4 Brian Lamond Judges: R Barron, A Forbes [wds id=”6″] Juniors Piob 1 Hazel Whyte, Larkhall…
James Graham of An Comunn has sent this.. ‘A charaid chòir, I would be extremely grateful if you would circulate this information (English and Gaelic), attached, to as many of your contacts within the piping scene. The Royal National Mòd takes place this year from 12-20 October 2018, with the piping competitions taking place on Saturday 13th October 2018 in the newly rebuilt Kirn Primary School, Dunoon. Entries for both junior…
Recent Comments