A real taste of the season to come from yesterday’s posting on the major championship tune requirements for next year. Proof again that the RSPBA are really on the ball and thanks to them for providing the info in such good time. Just to keep the look-back feel going, here is a small selection of pix from last year’s Worlds. Check them out and see if you figure. We’ll have more…
RSPBA Chief Executive Ian Embelton has released details of the playing requirements for bands competing at the Major Championships in each grade for 2018. Click on the links for the Association’s lists of prescribed tunes. Also on the site you will find all the results and summary sheets for this year’s majors. Here are the requirements for 2018: British Championships – Saturday 19th May, Paisley Novice Juvenile B & Grade…
Adjudicator Mr Barry Donaldson has circulated new information on his dispute with the Solo Piping Judges Association. It has been sent to all of its 50+ member judges. A copy has been obtained by Piping Press. When contacted by PP, Mr Donaldson said he had given the SPJA committee every opportunity of dealing with the matter internally but, in an effort to seize the initiative, they had circulated a statement…
Need a reminder of the summer’s pipe band contests? Below is the link to a promo video put out by the sponsors of the European Pipe Band Championships, Piping at Forres. It is ostensibly a plug for their commercial side but there are some good shots of bands, drum corps, RSPBA officials and adjudicators. The picture above shows Boghall and Bathgate Caledonia marching to the line at Forres last summer….
Well done to Piping Live for making such a significant contribution to the economy of Glasgow and the wider country (£2.5m according to last week’s press release). I found it amusing however that the festival’s organisers, the Piping Centre, could put out such a self-congratulatory notice and barely mention the Worlds! Here’s the full quote from Festival Director Roderick MacLeod: ‘We continue to break our own records, bringing in more…
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