Just when things seemed to be settling down at the College of Piping we hear of another departure, that of General Manager Fraser MacInnes, writes the Editor. My information is that the parting was not as harmonious as it might have been. There must have been personality issues here for, according to the Office of Scottish Charities Register (OSCR), the College’s profit last year was £21,000. The old place seemed…
Firstly, congratulations to all the bands who made the prizes last Saturday and commiserations to those who didn’t. The latter can console themselves with the fact that they made their contribution to what was a spectacular occasion carried off with some elan by the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association and its army of dedicated officials and adjudicators. This is the biggest participative musical event in the country with 8,000 bandsmen…
1st Peter McCalister 2nd Craig Martin 3rd Gwenael Dage 4th Rebecca Tierney 5th Finlay Clark Strathspey & reel 1st Craig Martin 2nd Peter McCalister 3rd Gwenael Dage 4th Finlay Clark 5th Rebecca Tierney Slow Air & Jig 1st Craig Martin2nd Rebecca Tierney3rd Peter McCalister
And so a small, whitewashed township on the shores of Loch Fyne in the heart of Argyll has become capital of the pipe band world. From lowly beginnings local lad P/M Stuart Liddell has taken his band up the grades from Juvenile to the very peak. No wonder he wept as RSPBA Chief Executive Ian Embelton read out the ever-to-be-remembered lines ‘Grade 1 World Champions for 2017…… [Ian is a…
Duncan Watson reports: A small number of pipers in attendance (5) but the the playing was good and all acquitted themselves well. The weather was reasonable but did break down mid-afternoon with a heavy downpour and poor Gordon Barclay was caught in it, doing jigs! Piobaireachd 1 Alan Clark, Lament for Capt MacDougall 2 Anna Kummerlöw, Kings Taxes 3 John McDonald, Too Long in This Condition (Angus MacKay setting) 4…
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