I think it is a bit far-fetched for yesterday’s Sunday Mail newspaper to say there is a boycott of the Worlds over band sizes. Quite the opposite with record numbers signing up every year. Still, good that they picked up on the Wall Street Journal story and gave the issue some publicity as best they could. Shouldn’t expect the SM to get everything right and I had a laugh at the…
The Lewis & Harris Piping Society have announced the pipers and judges for this year’s P/M Donald MacLeod Memorial Competition. The prestigious event will beheld in the Caladh Inn, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, on Friday April 6 starting at 10.15am. Admission is £15. Invited pipers are: Finlay Johnston, Ben Duncan, Niall Stewart, Roderick MacLeod, Craig Sutherland, Iain Speirs, Glenn Brown and Angus MacColl. Pipers have to play ceol mor and…
Stuart Finlayson is the renowned piper, composer and adjudicator from New Zealand. A prizewinner at the highest level, Stuart is well known to all generations via his outstanding compositions – tunes such as Stuart Chisholm’s Walkabout and the Motley Crew. As a teenager he left his homeland and took the long boat trip to Scotland where he studied piping with P/M Donald MacLeod and Duncan Johnstone. In this second part…
The ‘Battle’s Over – A Nation’s Tribute’ is a project giving pipers an opportunity to acknowledge the sacrifice of pipers and their comrades who lost their lives in World War I. It is the brainchild of Bruno Peek LVO OBE OPR Pageantmaster. He writes: ‘I would like to invite you to take part in Battle’s Over – a Nation’s Tribute, which on 11th November 2018 will commemorate the 100th anniversary of…
The RSPBA have announced the judges who will preside over the 2018 Major Championships. They have also issued new rules governing the World Solo Drumming Championship (WSD) held each October in Glasgow. WSD Pre-qualifying heats are as follows: Dundee/Perth/ Angus Branch – Kingdom Solos, Fife. (10th March) Lothian and Borders Branch Indoors – Livingston. (24th March) RSPBA NI Branch – Lisburn. (21st April) Glasgow and West of Scotland Branch Indoors…
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