Tag: Juvenile Piping

Perth Games (Complete)

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Cloudy but dry day at Perth with 33 pipers entered in the senior, graded, events. Champion Piper: Gordon McCready. Gordon (r) is pictured with Piobaireachd winner Bill Geddes after the results were announced.  P/A Piob 1 W Geddes, Old Men of the Shells 2 G McCready, Big Spree 3 J Hazzard, Lady Margaret MacDonald’s Salute 4 D Midgley, Prince’s Salute 5 D Urquhart, MacLeod of Raasay’s Salute Judges: A Wright, M…

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Preston Lodge Junior Results With Pix

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East Lothian Solo Piping and Drumming Competition 2014 Lee Moore reports: Preston Lodge High School Pipe Band hosted the third annual East Lothian Solo Piping and Drumming Competition on Saturday 29th November. The event was a huge success attracting an entry of 84 competitors, across eleven different categories, and there were a large number of spectators who came along to listen to some great music. In the piping events Alasdair…

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Scots Guards Junior Solos – Updated

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Adjudicator Robert Wallace writes: This was a first class day of junior piping in the impressive surroundings of the Army School of Piping at Inchdrewer House in Edinburgh. It was a credit to competition convenor Jimmy Banks, and to the Scots Guards Association, the promoters. There was substantial sponsorship from Pipe Dreams, manufacturers of the famous Eezidrone drone reeds, and from Grants of Dalvey who supplied beautiful silver keepsakes for…

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National Youth Pipe Band Concert

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Lee Moore reports:  The National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland and Preston Lodge High School Pipe Band will be taking to the stage at The Brunton Theatre in Musselburgh on Saturday 22nd November. Tickets are £8. For Bookings call 0131 665 2240; www.hubtickets.co.uk; Poster attached. Please forward to anyone you think will be interested in this fantastic event.’

PP Editor’s Blog 10/10/14

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To Northern Ireland tonight for the Piper of the Year contest in Ballymena. I am sure there will be plenty of good playing on show so get along to the Adair Arms tomorrow for a listen if you can. Secretary Kenny Stewart’s details are above for anyone who needs further information. We all know how Ulster’s bands have taken the world by storm, but thirty years ago the idea of…

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