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Aboyne Games (updated)

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Bright but cold day on Royal Deeside. Healthy turnout of pipers. Fifteen played in light music; 17 in ceol mor. A very successful day for piper Gordon McCready (pictured with David Wilton). Piob: 1 G McCready (Lady Mgt. MacDonald’s Salute) 2 U Beckford 3 A Russell 4 G Canning 5 D Watson Judges: N Mathieson, M McRae, W Wotherspoon March: 1 G McCready 2 A Russell 3 J Greenlees 4…

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Piping Live Details Announced

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Piping Live begins a week on Monday and the organisers have sent this flyer: Buy D Naill Solo Blackwood Pipe Chanter (inc. any tax & mailing), from   [wds id=”16″]   Click on the link up top or anywhere on the flyer for more information and tickets. [wds id=”17″]

PP Editor’s Blog: Games Attendance/Bands at Bridge of Allan

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There are some pretty simple solutions the Competing Pipers’ Association could enact to solve the poor turnouts at our Highland games. I hope I am not overstating the problem, but when only handfuls of pipers are turning up at the likes of Taynuilt, Lochearnhead, Markinch, Luss, Tobermory, we need to do something. Inveraray, by contrast, can attract 35 for its B grade events, 27 for the C and a healthy entry for…

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A Day at the Games in the West Highlands

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I know I keep harping on about how enjoyable the games are, but last week at Tobermory was a blast. We met up on the Wednesday night and went for a meal, we being my fellow judges, P/Ms Ian Duncan and Ian McLellan, Andrew Frater, and piping convenor Torquil Telfer and our respective ladies.  Ian Mc is involved in the compiling of the new Argylls book of pipe tunes (Ian…

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Hallkirk Games, Pacific North West Results, AP Campbell on the Games, WW1 Tunes, Tom Peterkin

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Results for Hallkirk Games and in the US the Pacific Northwest band and solo competitions, have been posted on the Results pages. The picture above shows Colin Campbell, Aberlour, the Champion Piper at Hallkirk. Colin is playing at Tobermory Games in beautiful conditions under the famous piobaireachd tree. Writer, poet, broadcaster and actor Angus Peter Campbell, father of noted young player Brighde Chaimbeul, had an interesting article on the games…

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