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Northern Ireland News: Kids with Cancer/ New Generator/ Ulster Solos/ New Chairman/ Beth Adger

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The recent Kids with Cancer Charity Concert was an outstanding success and if you tune into the Big Rab Show YouTube channel you will be able to enjoy it yourself. Northern Ireland has hosted many top quality concerts throughout the years, featuring some of the greatest pipe bands of the modern era but the lineup that was brought together at the Royal Hotel, Cookstown, last month surely surpasses the best…

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Piobaireachd Society Announce Recommended Set Tunes for Oban and Inverness 2026

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The Music Committee of the Piobaireachd Society has recommended the following set tunes for next year’s Argyllshire Gathering and Northern Meeting: GOLD MEDAL – Four (4) tunes to be submittedThe Finger Lock* Pride of Barra *Lady MacDonald’s LamentMacDonalds Are SimplePort UrlarLament for Airds*Fare Thee Well DonaldLament for Captain Donald MacKenzie* Crunluath a mach required. SILVER MEDAL – four (4) tunes to be submittedLament for the Castle of DunyvegNameless, Hiharin dro…

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Uist & Barra 2025 Results

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This competition was held today, March 1, at the Piping Centre in Otago Street, Glasgow. Pipers were given their tunes one week in advance. There was an appreciative audience throughout the day. Ten invited pipers competed. Ceòl Mòr for the Glasgow Highland Club Medal1 Angus MacColl, £220, Red Speckled Bull2 Callum Beaumont, £175, Lament for the Earl of Antrim, 3 Calum Brown, £110, A Son’s Salute to his Parents MSR1 Stuart…

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Piobaireachd Society Announce Details of Annual Conference

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The 2025 Piobaireachd Society Annual Conference will take place in the Royal George Hotel, Perth. The dates are March 28 – 30. Society committee meetings are held on the Friday afternoon and then members and friends gather in the evening for a relaxed meal. The conference proper begins the following morning. There are two papers before lunch and two after, each of around 40 minutes. Talk 1: 9.30 – 10.15am: ‘Gems from…

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Get the Max in Jax! Florida Pipe & Drum Academy Registrations Open

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The 2025 Florida Pipe and Drum Academy is now open for registration, reports Director Chris McKeown. The school will be held from 16 – 21 February in Jacksonville. Sunday 16th at 6pm is the meet and greet at Holiday Inn Express, 13934 Village Lake Cir, Jax, Florida 32258. Holiday Inn Express is the host hotel. Hotel group rate here. Classes cost only $600 for a week of world class instruction. They…

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