So that is the third annual Northern Winter School over and we are now travelling home, writes the Editor. I think it would be fair to say it has been a success and Principal Ronnie Bromhead has already booked his premises for the next few years ahead. The picture above shows students and instructors.Many of the students have expressed a wish to have a weekend refresher course a few months…
Before the London Championship fades from the memory for another year we thought it apposite to run this article which appeared 50 years ago in the September 1967 edition of the US – based ‘Piping World’ magazine. In reference to the era of the swinging 60s it is headlined ‘London …Swings….Skirls’ (with ‘Swings’ scored out). With the article are a number of photographs of leading Society supporters and competitors. The…
Editor Robert Wallace reports: One of the rewarding outcomes of attending piping schools is that you really get to know your fellow instructors well. Last night we had a very successful concert in a nearby hall with more than 100 in the audience. Star turn was Craig Munro whose blistering fingers showed why he holds his place in the front rank at St Laurence O’Toole with such ease. Craig brought…
The Northern Winter School is now in full swing and is turning out to be quite the thing. Forty one students – all pipers, no drummers yet unfortunately – working hard at an excellent youth hostel facility on the plains of Lower Saxony, Germany. Principal Ronnie Bromhead has allocated me the piobaireachd class and I have eight enthusiastic students. We started on Duncan MacRae of Kintail yesterday and had the…
Jack Taylor, Secretary of the Solo Piping Judges’ Association, has sent this….. At the SPJA AGM today Andrew Wright stood down after four years as chair. Colin MacLellan was elected to succeed him, and Jack Taylor and Euan Anderson were returned as secretary and treasurer. In his remarks Andrew Wright referred to it having been a busy year with four committee meetings and much email traffic. He used the phrase…
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