What will be the first professional piping contest of the season (following the weather cancellation of the Uist & Barra) will be held this Saturday April 14. It’s the Scottish Pipers Association contest and it will be held at NPC West (College of Piping, Otago St. to us old timers) with a good entry in all categories. Last year’s overall winner was Sarah Muir (pictured top with her trophies) who will be…
We are very grateful to piping historian Keith Sanger (left) for these corrections and additions to our piece on Duncan Campbell’s pipes and manuscript of earlier this week. Keith writes…… Duncan Campbell’s date and place of birth are correct but your article then goes of the rails a bit. One day when I was in the National Archives of Scotland some years ago I was asked by the archivist if…
The Solo Piping Judges Association, which represents the majority but not all UK judges, has issued a ‘Spring Update’ of their activities. The Association was mired in controversy during much of 2017. The statement: ‘The SPJA Committee met in full on March 18th at the Salutation Hotel in Perth, with Dr Angus MacDonald attending from Toronto via Skype. ‘The following was discussed: Assessment and Training – It was agreed that the Committee would produce…
We are very grateful to Mr Bill Wotherspoon, Gold Medallist, solo piping adjudicator and Secretary of the Piobaireachd Society, for forwarding photographs and information relating to piper Duncan Campbell of Foss, Perthshire. Mr Wotherspoon was recently on a trip to the South Island of New Zealand and spotted the pictures and text in the Otago Settlers Museum, Dunedin. Duncan Campbell is known to all piobaireachd students and piping historians as…
From the Sunshine State of Florida, our Special Correspondent reports on the Dunedin Highland Games……. Now arguably one of the larger solo and pipe band gatherings in North America, Dunedin, that west coast Florida town with Scottish roots (twinned with Stirling), packs a real punch with an ever-growing and burgeoning Highland Games. As the solos kicked off at 9am so did a few thousand 5k runners in the humid, high…
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