Alistair Aitken’s report yesterday prompted this response form a reader who has asked to remain anonymous: Who has got it wrong this time? What was the large seated main stand in between G1 and G2 arenas for? I was at Ingliston this year and all that you could hear from the stand was a mixture of G1 and G2 playing and a mixture of the next G1 and G2 bands…
The 2026 British Pipe Band Championship, the first RSPBA Major of the year, was held at the Royal Highland Centre at Ingliston, to the west of Edinburgh, on Saturday 30th May. A total of 125 pipe bands had entered and, if my calculations are correct, 114 bands actually competed. The weather was sunny before turning dull, but thankfully there was only a short period of rain towards the end when…
The pipers who have qualified for this year’s Silver Chanter competition are as follows: Derek Midgley (Skye Clasp runner-up), Steven Leask (Oban Gold Medal), Brodie Watson-Massey (Inverness Gold Medal), Stuart Liddell (Argyllshire Gathering Senior Piobaireachd, Inverness Clasp), Alistair Brown (Dunvegan Medal), Sandy Cameron (Skye Clasp). The competition will be held at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig Gaelic College, Sleat, Skye, on August 5. The adjudicator is Dr Jack Taylor. Each piper has…
One thing I found striking about the report this week on the 1934 Argyllshire Gathering was the tunes played in the light music: Shepherd’s Crook, Lochcarron, Piper’s Bonnet, Glengarry Gathering, and what must have been an early run of Mrs MacPherson of Inveran. Here we are, eight years off a century later, and these classic pieces are still what separates the great from the not so great players of ceòl…
The RSPBA has responded to comments made by former Pipe Band College Piping Principal, Mr Jim Campbell. Mr Campbell’s comments followed the announcement earlier this month by Association Chairman Bob Niven of a ‘strategic reset’ of the College with new leaders and more focus on teaching. Read it here. In a long statement reported fully on Piping Press, Mr Campbell claimed that he and the other three College Principals, were…
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