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Piping During WW2: Home and Abroad the Music Continued Regardless

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The current hiatus in piping activity, more particularly in pipe band activity, has been likened to a similar fallow period during WW2. What was it like then? In this series piping historian Jeannie Campbell investigates and finds that there was much more going on than might be imagined…. Pipers took their traditions with them wherever they were stationed. A Highland Games was held on the North African shores of the…

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Piper James Duncan Mackenzie, Lewis, Releases Book of Own Compositions

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Lewis piper James Duncan Mackenzie has released a book featuring 70 of his own tunes for pipes and other instruments. It includes tunes which have already become popular in both the pipe band and folk music scenes, writes Katie Mackenzie. The ‘James Duncan Mackenzie Collection’ features 52 pipe compositions, including tunes such as Smelling Fresh and Willie Bucach Macleod of Stornoway, and 18 tunes that go outside the range of…

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Strathclyde Police Pipe Band, a Ship Launch on the Clyde and P/M Donald MacKay

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Following on from last week’s item on bands in shipyards, I enclose photos of the Strathclyde Police Pipe Band led by P/M Donald MacKay at Yarrow’s shipyard on the Clyde in November 2007 for the official launch of Royal Navy vessel HMS Diamond, writes Allan Hamilton. It was a cold wet day as usual, but undaunted the band played without capes to the delight of a crowd of Navy personnel,…

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Results of US-Based Competition: ‘World Online Solos’

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Here is the list of winners in the professional piping section of this popular event run by Jori Chisholm of Seattle, USA. Click on the links to hear the winning performances. Highland dress is not worn. The full list of winners is available here. Piobaireachd1 Dr Brendon Eade (pictured), NZ, Lament for Donald Duaghal Mackay2 Ian K MacDonald, Canada, Lament for King George III3 James MacHattie, Canada, Glengarry’s March4 John Dew,…

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Editor’s Notebook: Covid Fears for 2022 Season/ Charity Single/ Talk Piobaireachd/ Results from Yesteryear

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All the indications are that the restrictions/ recommendations on social gatherings limited to three households, as announced yesterday, will extend at least until March. What impact this will have on band practices here in Scotland I know not. But I am concerned. The knock on effect for the 2022 season could be significant. Already we have had the cancellation of the Scottish Schools contest scheduled for the end of March….

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