P/M Jimmy Banks reports: Jonathon Simpson of Boghall & Bathgate Caledonia Pipe Band won our KO final yesterday beating Ben Duncan of the Army School. A huge audience of 70+ in the Guards Club at Haymarket. We had two really good performances. Each piper entertained us well. I had Ian McLellan, Walter Cowan and Jim Henderson as judges and they all endorsed Jonathon as a worthy winner on the day….
The Jimmy McIntosh MBE Piobaireachd Challenge was held in Davidson College, North Carolina, on Friday 20th April. The competition is growing in stature with some of the US’s top players taking part. Nick Hudson and Andrew Carlisle are pictured above. Piobaireachd 1 Andrew Carlisle, McKenzie of Applecross’s Salute 2 Nick Hudson, MacLeod of Colbeck’s Lament 3 Dan Lyden, Red Speckled Bull 4 Any Garson, Lament for Donald Duaghal MacKay Judges:…
The Northern Ireland Branch of the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association held their annual ‘Ulster Solos’ competitions today. It was a very well run event, held in Lisnagarvey High School, Lisburn, with competitions for tenor and snare drumming and piping at all levels from chanter to senior. There was also a qualifier for the World Solo Drumming Championship, the following going through to the finals on the big day at…
Congratulations to P/M Douglas Murray and his brother Jim for their ten years at the helm of the Fife Police band. It is a very difficult thing to take a band from nowhere and lead it into Grade 1 – and then start to pick up prizes among the elite. Jim, now in Western Australia, kicked things off and Douglas built on his work to such an extent that the…
The following announcement had been made on the National Piping Centre website: ‘The Skye Piping Society and The National Piping Centre are pleased to announce that from this year, the Silver Chanter Competition will continue in Glasgow. Cailean Maclean, Chairman of The Isle of Skye Piping Society said “While the Skye Piping Society is disappointed that due to rising costs and diminishing income we have had to sever our connection with…
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