Contest Draw Vale of Atholl Junior Piping & Drumming | 20th Jan. This well run solo contest takes place tomorrow in Pitlochry. Get along to support the competitors if you can. Here is the draw: Event 1 Piob U15 – 09.30 01. Cameron Stewart 02. Edward Hannay 03. Brogan Townsley 04. Milly Fox 05. Fraser Robson 06. Archie Clark 07. Joshua Reilly Event 2 Piob 15-18 – 09.30 01. Cameron Bullard 02….
A treat for piobaireachd aficionados today with the posting on the PP Audio Archive of a performance of the Lament for Mary MacLeod by Donald MacPherson, writes the Editor. The recording was made by the BBC in 1977 during a recital Donald gave with P/M Angus MacDonald at the Eden Court Theatre, Inverness.We are grateful to Donald McBride, one of Donald’s former students. for passing it on. Donald’s playing reflects all…
Publicist Katie MacKenzie has sent this: I thought you might be interested in hearing about James Duncan Mackenzie’s second album which is being released next month. The album is called, Sròmos, after the abandoned settlement on the banks of Loch Seaforth on Lewis. Sròmos was one of many townships cleared in the 19th century to prioritise land for sheep farming and deer forest. [The album] Sròmos consists entirely of self-penned melodies, led by…
A couple of weeks ago we highlighted a request from RSPBA Vice Chairman John Hughes for information about a set of pipes presented to his uncle, PoW William Chisholm, during WW2. The pipes had a plaque on them which indicated they may have arrived in Germany via the Piobaireachd Society. We asked if any other readers had similar sets. I was pleased to hear from Iain Duncan, the former archivist…
Stuart McCallum of McCallum Bagpipes has sent this re Saturday’s gala concert by Johnstone Pipe Band: ‘The band are delighted to have been invited to perform on the main stage at Glasgow’s Royal Concert Hall on Saturday the 20th January as part of the city’s 2018 Celtic Connections festival. ‘It’s the first major concert for the band under Pipe Major Keith Bowes. All three of the competing bands in the Johnstone…
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