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Editor’s Notebook: Highlanders Recital/ Skye Tunes/ CLASP Chanters/ SPA/ Carrick Juniors/ PS AGM/ Piper Search

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Steven McCabe: We are thrilled to announce that we will be hosting The Highlanders Piping Recital featuring some incredible guest performers! Join us for an evening filled with music and tradition. Pipers of 4 Scots, Royal Regiment of Scotland, Captain Stuart Samson MBE, and the Highlanders Cadet Force will be performing at the recital in Fort George Chapel on June 14. All proceeds will go directly to supporting The Highlanders…

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Piping Press Guide to the Games – Further Updates

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We are grateful to the Royal Scottish Highland Games Association for the following dates. Only those games with solo piping, junior or senior, are included, writes the Editor. This guide is for the benefit of piping enthusiasts as well as competitors. Those pipers who are members of the Competing Pipers’ Association will have their own, more detailed, guide. Those who are not, can access the RSHG website where each games…

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New Rules for Clasp Competition on Skye

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In a bid to increase entries, Piping Convenor Cameron MacFadyen has made significant changes to the playing requirements for the Colonel Jock MacDonald Clasp. The main one is deeming tunes from the senior lists at Oban and Inverness as eligible submissions. The competition will be held on August 5 in Portree as part of the Skye Gathering. The closing date for entries for all senior piping events is 31st May….

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Donald MacLeod Memorial Report

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The Pipe Major Donald MacLeod Memorial Competition took place on the last weekend in March and was hailed a great success with piping fans travelling from far and wide to listen to eight of the world’s best pipers playing the music of the legendary piper and composer from Stornoway. By Katie Laing Long-time competitor Angus MacColl took the top honours in the invitational senior competition on Friday, March 28, and…

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Scottish Pipers Professional 2025: Order of Play

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President Logan Tannock has announced the draws for the Scottish Pipers Association Professional Competition to be held this Saturday, April 12, in the Piping Centre, McPhater Street, Glasgow. The competition receives considerable sponsorship from the Piobaireachd Society. The P/A Piobaireachd is from 12.30pm. The draw: John Macdonald, Ben Duncan, Darach Urquhart, Brodie Watson-Massey, Steven Leask, Angus MacPhee, James MacPetrie, Cameron May, Sarah Muir, Gordon McCready, Eireann Ianetta-Mackay, Jamie Elder, Sandy…

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