Inveraray Games Results (CLASP added)

Dry and hot today in Argyllshire for this graded competition with contests for juniors and CLASP pipers. Tunes in the ceol mor given out one week beforehand. Results as we get them. ‘A’ Piob 1 Angus D MacColl 2 Cameron Drummond 3 Stuart Liddell 4 Sandy Cameron 5 Gordon McCready 6 Faye Henderson Judges: I MacFadyen, M McRae ‘A’ March 1 S Liddell 2 C Drummond 3 A D MacColl…

Jennifer Makes the National News After Altercation with Airline

RSPBA adjudicator Jennifer Hutcheon featured in a story in Scotland’s Daily Record newspaper this morning after she was escorted from a flight for refusing to put her pipes in the hold. Jennifer is pictured above piping at another memorial service. The paper reported: ‘A Scots pensioner was thrown off a flight — for refusing to place her bagpipes in the plane’s hold. World champion piper Jennifer Hutcheon was frogmarched across the airport…

Bands: Grade 2 Mid Season Update and Look Ahead/ Co. Antrim Champs.

Our Special Correspondent has been covering our important Grade 2 contests all season. His reporting and comment has been very well received by the bandsmen and women in this grade and he has highlighted some of the excellent playing you can hear in this grade. Today he takes stock of their season so far…. With a number of Grade 2 overseas bands slated to play at Glasgow Green in August…

Kinlochard Gathering Junior Solos

Results from the Kinlochard Gathering Junior solos on Sunday 16th July. The competition was based on four rounds of playing: Round 1: 2/4 marches;  Round 2: 6/8 marches; Round 3: Jigs; R4: Tunes of competitor’s town choice. The picture shows the winner Brodie Watson-Massey receiving his trophy from P/M Ian Duncan. 1. Brodie Watson-Massey 2. Andrew Ferguson 3. Finlay Cameron 4. Ruairidh Brown 5. Greg Will 6. Ian Hamilton 7….

Rosneath Games Results: All Grades & CLASP (Updated)

Windy but dry with some sun at this graded event on the Rosneath peninsula. Healthy entries in all events. In the picture above Junior Piobaireachd winner Eosaph Caimbeul Caimbeul receives his trophy from piping convenor Colina Helen Campbell. Judges: Jim Henderson & Ian McLellan judged the confined, open juv M/SR and B grade M/SR Willie Morrison and Malcolm McRae judged C M/SR in the morning and A Piobaireachd in the afternoon…