Shotts & Dykehead Juvenile Contest (updated with pictures and comment)

New Shotts Contest Set to Be an Annual Event after 2014 Success Robert Wallace writes: This was a well-run competition. It was held at Calderhead High School, Shotts (a superb facility), with sponsorship from pipes/drums, RG Hardie, D Naill & Co., TyFry Drumsticks, The National Piping Centre, D2 Percussion, Jim Kilpatrick Percussion, Scott Currie One Stop Pipe Band Shop, Canning Reeds, MacLeod Highland Supplies, McCallum Bagpipes.  Well done to all of them…

NZ Silver Chanter

Silver Chanter MSR 1 Alasdair MacKenzie 2 Angus Hawke 3 William Rowe 4 Mike Redmond Judges: E MacCrimmon, B Switalla, I Blakeley Former Winners Clasp MSR 1 Alasdair MacKenzie 2 Jamie Hawke 3 Greg Wilson Judges: N Foster, E MacCrimmon, P Mair A-Grade Piob 1 Greg Wilson 2 Stuart Easton 3 Liam Kernaghan 4 Marion Horsburgh March 1 Greg Wilson 2 Stuart Easton 3 Liam Kernaghan 4 Jamie Hawke S&R…

P/M George Ackroyd contest South Africa (updated)

The results from Saturday’s P/M George Ackroyd contest, held at the Transvaal Scottish Regimental HQ in Johannesburg were as follows: George Ackroyd Challenge Overall 1st Gareth Rudolph George Ackroyd Challenge Overall – Best Junior 1st Brandon Holz George Ackroyd Challenge Piobaireachd Adjudicators : Thomas Knobel, Struan Young 1st Gareth Rudolph 2nd Brandon Holz 3rd Chris Couperthwaite 4th Alex Jeanrenaud (8 competed) George Ackroyd Challenge Strathspey & Reel Adjudicator : Roger Davies 1st Gareth Rudolph 2nd Nicholas Taitz 3rd Alex…