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Skye Gathering Entries Open/ Piping Live Searching for New Talent for 2022 festival

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Skye Gathering Convenor Piping Cameron MacFadyen reports that they are ‘quietly optimistic’ about returning to normal this summer and running the full programme of piping events at this year’s Skye Games. They will be held on August 2 & 3. Mr MacFadyen has forwarded the information sheet and entry form (see below) for those intending to compete at Portree. The information is also available by clicking the picture above. Skye…

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Piobaireachd Society Announce Recommended Set Tunes for 2023

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The Piobaireachd Society has instituted a new approach to the tunes it recommends for the senior competitions at the Argyllshire Gathering and the Northern Meeting. Ronald McShannon of the Society’s Music Committee: A. SENIOR COMPETITIONS A new approach to setting tunes for the senior competitions is recommended for a trial period of five years.   The aim is to give competitors a wider choice of tunes while still ensuring exposure…

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RSPBA Announce Judges for 2022 Majors as Season Preparation Gathers Pace

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RSPBA Headquarters in Glasgow have today announced the adjudicators for all grades for the 2022 major pipe band championships. They are as follows: In parallel to the announcement, RSPBA Chief Executive Ian Embelton has spoken at length to Piping Press about the ongoing preparations for the season and he revealed that his iconic results announcements, a fixture at championships for the past 20 years, will once again fill the air…

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Editor’s Notebook: Lochaber/ Bessie MacKinnon/ Henderson Pipes/ SPA Professional

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Occasionally we must extract a negative from what was clearly a happy, successful event. I refer to the Lochaber Junior Piping competition held last Saturday in Fort William. Yet again we saw very few pipers or drummers from the local schools coming forward to take part. Why is this? There is a full time piping tutor in Lochaber (for the past 20 years anyway) and I believe he/she has a…

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Jimmy McIntosh Scholarship / Concert for Eilidh’s Trust

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The members of the Jimmy McIntosh Piobaireachd Scholarship Committee are pleased to announce that, in this inaugural year, we have selected two deserving recipients for 2022 Abby Long of Houston, Texas, and Emmitt LaBelle of Morganton, North Carolina, pictured above, were selected from a number of applicants. All of the pipers who applied demonstrated a great deal of promise, and the committee’s decision was difficult. We are confident that Abby…

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