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A Look Back At The Grade 1 Contest at the Scottish Championships

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I didn’t think Saturday’s Grade 1 contest was reflected in the way the summaries eventually showed. For me there were three bands in the mix for first at Dumbarton: Field Marshal, St Laurence and Inveraray. The title could have gone to either one and no one could have complained. That said, Inveraray’s four straight first places tells its own story and I bow to the superior insight and positioning of…

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Scottish Championships Underway/ Skye: Dunvegan Medal Draw

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The penultimate pipe band championship of the season is underway at Levengrove Park, Dumbarton, west of Glasgow. 141 bands will compete for the Scottish Champions title in nine grades from Novice B to Grade 1. The contest concludes at 5.20pm with MacKenzie Caledonia’s performance in Grade 2. First results approximately an hour later. Get them as they are announced by joining Twitter and the RSPBA’s feed. Alternatively wait a few…

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PP Editor’s Blog: Highland Games/ Scottish & Worlds/Ulva and MacArthur Pipers

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I am not sure the prestige of Inveraray Games is helped by the pipers being given their piobaireachd a week before the contest. It makes things easier all round for the competitors but is much less of a test. Compare it with Braemar where it’s eight tunes, the chosen piece given at the bench. Promoters often justify the ‘early tune’ decision by saying it cuts down the number of breakdowns….

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SOUTH UIST & Arisaig GAMES Results

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South Uist Games 2016 Askernish, July 23 Weather: Dull & Overcast but dry Chanter Competition: Novice: 1 Ruairidh Drennan 2 Innes Scullion Open: 1 Angus MacIntyre Novice Piping: 1 Laura Robertson 2 Eosaph Nicolson 3 Alana Beaton 4 Catherine MacCormick Under 15 Piping March: 1 Finlay Cameron 2 Christopher Happs 3 Eilidh MacLeod 4 Calum MacDonald 5 Kevin Beaton Strathspey & Reel: 1 Finlay Cameron 2 Christopher Happs 3 Eilidh MacLeod 4 Eilidh MacPhee 5 Marion MacCorquodale…

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Revisionist Piobaireachd and the Tradition as it Has Come Down to Us

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David Hester of the Alt Pibroch website has been in touch following my article on judging and subsequent comments on Donald MacDonald. David: Two quick questions, just for the purpose of me gaining a bit of insight and better sensitivity to the idiom: 1) What is particularly poor about the fare of the MacDonald book and manuscript?  Is it missing something, for example?  Are the pibrochs chosen too massive?  Some…

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