Tag: Pipe Music

Review: The Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders Collection of Bagpipe Music

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What a year it has been for Argyll piping: Inveraray winning the Worlds, Alasdair Henderson taking the Northern Meeting Gold Medal – and now a superb collection of bagpipe music courtesy the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders. The book represents a 200 year long musical journey of one of the iconic Scottish regiments, perhaps no longer with the identity of yesteryear but with a corpus of pipe music which will ensure…

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Top Piper Queries Tune Selection Comments By the Editor

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Top professional piper Alex Gandy from Halifax, Nova Scotia, has written regarding a recent blog post by the Editor concerning the selection of tunes for Former Winners’ MSR contests….. Alex wrote: I wanted to get a little clarity on what maybe the judges are looking for with regard to tune selection, as it appears you weren’t 100% enthused with Mrs. MacDonald of Dunach. I’ve played the same marches two years…

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Northern Ireland’s Piper of the Year Results

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Organiser Ken Stewart has sent this about this important annual contest held in the Province…..The annual Piper of the Year competition was held on Saturday 8th October 2016 in the Adair Arms Hotel in Ballymena. This competition is promoted by the Northern Ireland Piping Society and is an invitation only event. Competitors are selected on merit determined by their competition results, in Ireland, during the current year. Each player is…

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Recognition for South Florida Pipe & Drum Academy

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South Florida Pipe and Drum Academy has received an official recognition from the City of Sunrise, a city close to the school’s venue in Boca Raton. City of Sunrise Mayor, Mike Ryan, who was a student at the school and who won the Most Promising Chanter Student award, has issued the following statement: ‘As Mayor of the City of Sunrise, I want to thank you for developing an Academy dedicated…

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PP Ed’s Blog: South Florida Pipe & Drum Academy Concludes

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The South Florida temperature cooled off to the pleasant high 60s during the week and it was amusing to see so many students lamenting the cold and shouldering their pipes and drums wearing fleece jackets and sweaters whilst the Scots instructors, in short sleeve order, commented on how summery things were. It’s about what you are used to. I think it would be fair to say we have had a…

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