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Nicol Brown Amateur Championship Results

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This annual competition was held yesterday, October 7, in Rockville, Maryland, USA. The Champion Piper was Colin Forrest who received a pipe chanter donated by McCallum Bagpipes, a new pipe bag from Lee & Sons and $1000 in travel expenses. Piob: 1 Colin Forrest, The Groat 2 Gillian Blaney, Rout of Glen Fruin 3 Cameron Bonar, Black Donald’s March 4 William Shropshire, Kinlochmoidart No1 5 Magnus Stone, Lament for Mary…

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Captain John MacLellan Memorial Results

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The 10th annual Captain John A MacLellan MBE Memorial Piping Championship was held at the Army School at Inchdrewer House, Edinburgh, today. B & C grades were oversubscribed, good A grade entries but P grade entries were, by comparison, poor. The P Piobaireachd and the Hornpipe and Jig were streamed live over Facebook. The Army School delivered an efficiently run event and the prize giving was underway shortly after 4.30pm….

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Draws for Captain John MacLellan and National Mod Piping Announced

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The Captain John MacLellan MBE Memorial competition takes place on Saturday (Oct 7) at the Army School of Piping at Inchdrewer House Edinburgh. There are large entries in all events, particularly the B and C Grades. Some competitions begin at 8.30am. Visitors welcome. Here are some of the draws: P Piob Christopher ArmstrongInnes SmithWilliam McCallumRoderick MacLeodFinlay JohnstonAngus D MacCollIain SpeirsStuart LiddellGlenn Brown P MSR Iain SpeirsSarah MuirAngus J MacCollBen DuncanStuart…

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Reader Requests Help with Medal Mystery

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A few years ago while I was living down south, I acquired an extremely large, extremely ornate silver medal presented in 1900 by a piping association that seems to have vanished without trace. My searches at the time for information about the association and the recipient drew a complete blank. Piping Press’s network of readers is a good deal wider than any I could tap into then, and if the…

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Lochnell Championship 2023 Line Up and Judges Announced

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The Argyllshire Gathering Trust’s Lochnell Intermediate Piping Championship will take place on Saturday, 21 October. The venue is the chapel at Lochnell Castle, Argyll, by kind permission of the Earl of Dundonald and hosted by his son Lord Archie Cochrane. The competition is by invitation only and features Scotland’s finest pipers aged under 22: Ruairidh Brown (2022 Champion), Andrew Ferguson (2022 Piob. winner), Luke Kennedy (CPA Bronze Medal 2023), Gregor…

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