Editor Robert Wallace reports: One of the rewarding outcomes of attending piping schools is that you really get to know your fellow instructors well. Last night we had a very successful concert in a nearby hall with more than 100 in the audience. Star turn was Craig Munro whose blistering fingers showed why he holds his place in the front rank at St Laurence O’Toole with such ease. Craig brought…
The Northern Winter School is now in full swing and is turning out to be quite the thing. Forty one students – all pipers, no drummers yet unfortunately – working hard at an excellent youth hostel facility on the plains of Lower Saxony, Germany. Principal Ronnie Bromhead has allocated me the piobaireachd class and I have eight enthusiastic students. We started on Duncan MacRae of Kintail yesterday and had the…
Jack Taylor, Secretary of the Solo Piping Judges’ Association, has sent this….. At the SPJA AGM today Andrew Wright stood down after four years as chair. Colin MacLellan was elected to succeed him, and Jack Taylor and Euan Anderson were returned as secretary and treasurer. In his remarks Andrew Wright referred to it having been a busy year with four committee meetings and much email traffic. He used the phrase…
Tomorrow is Remembrance Sunday and pipers and pipe bands around the world will be playing musical tributes to the fallen of past and present wars. Over in Northern Ireland earlier this week (on Monday) Raffrey Pipe Major Francis Strain (Ulster Defence Regimental Association, Belfast) was the lone piper at the official opening of the Belfast Field of Remembrance. John Kelly reports: A short act of remembrance was led by the…
The Northern Winter School starts today in Lohheide, Lower Saxony, Germany, and not far from Fallingbostel the former British Army base. A great team of teachers brought together by Principal Ronnie Bromhead and at the last count there were around 50 students. There will be classes on all branches of piping and drumming, a concert, exams and evening ceilidhs. Report and pix to follow. Talking of schools, Jack Williamson, P/M of…
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