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PP Academy: Bands, Your Dress & Deportment is Important

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The following article appeared in Pipe Band Magazine in 2000. It is by Highland Dress expert Bill Blacklaw formerly of the Gordon Highlanders. Much of Mr Blacklaw’s advice is still relevant today. The picture above shows P/M Alan Bevan and the Simon Fraser University Pipe Band from Canada with a front line from a few years ago. Notice the correct length of kilt, polished brogues (properly tied) and the glengarries…

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Adjudicators for the 2016 Argyllshire Gathering Announced

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Judges for the first day of this year’s Argyllshire Gathering, to be held at Oban on August 24th and 25th, are as follows (in alphabetical order): SENIOR PIOBAIREACHD Colin MacLellan, William Morrison, Jack Taylor GOLD MEDAL Patricia Henderson, Bill Livingstone, Stuart Shedden, SILVER MEDAL Ian Duncan, Malcolm McRae, Robert Wallace MacGREGOR MEDAL Michael Grey (Ontario), Bruce Hitchings, Ronald MacShannon, Stuart Samson – two judges to each heat. FORMER WINNERS’ M,S, & R Iain…

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PP Editor’s Blog: Bob Worrall Recital/ Tutor 3/ Albert Duncan/ Pipe Bags/ Highland Games League

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Videos and audio files to accompany Bagpipe Tutor 3 – Piobaireachd are now live and can be accessed here. If you would like to learn piobaireachd (pronounced ‘pee-broch’ with the ‘och’ as in loch) then you can buy the book here: I was sorry to hear of the passing of Albert Duncan a friend and teaching colleague on many occasions out in Western Canada. Always smiling and willing to help,…

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More Observations on the British Pipe Band Championships

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BRITISH PIPE BAND CHAMPIONSHIPS 2016, St James Playing Fields, Paisley, Saturday, May 21 By Alistair Aitken OBE, former senior adjudicator for the RSPBA This was a new venue for the first major championship of the year and my first impression was the amount of space which was available.  The Playing Fields were flat and firm despite the rain earlier in the day.  However, they were also rather open to the…

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Piping in Breeks/ Donald Video/ Australia Results

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New video posted today of Donald McBride, Kansas and Donegal, but formerly Patna (South Ayrshire), Prestonpans and Glasgow. Donald plays some ceol beag and then the piobaireachd The Sound of the Waves Against the Castle of Duntroon. Appropriately he is playing the tune on the foreshore north of Boston (the tide is audible in the background) during a quiet evening at the New England piping camp in 2013. It was a balmy…

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