TOMINTOUL:Ceòl Mòr – 1. Greig Canning (MacKay’s Banner); 2. Pipe Major Ben Duncan (Lament for MacSwan of Roaig); 3. George Taylor; 4. Callum Brown;Judges: Ian Duncan, Norman Matheson MBE and Duncan Watson. March – 1. Pipe Major Ben Duncan; 2. Callum Brown; 3. Greig Canning; 4. Jeffrey Lawson.Strathspey & Reel – 1. Callum […]
GREY’S NOTES by Michael Grey Piping Today #53, 2011. It’s that time of year when Scotland is especially magnetic for travellers. Games season, the big pipe band championships and August’s Piping Live! festival all do their bit to attract pipers and drummers from all over. I was 20 when I […]
From Scots Borderer to Ulster Scot … and Frontiers Beyond – New Tunes in the Auld Style by Iain Bell, (Iain Bell, 2018); £16. By Jenny Hazzard Iain Bell’s book comprises 42 original tunes, each with a background story. It begins with a concise, conversational account of the links between […]
P ipe major Alen Tully leads the St Laurence O’Toole Pipe Band out of the circle after giving the winning performance in Grade 1 at the 2019 British Pipe Band Championships in Paisley.
An exciting new learning/workshop initiative will be a feature at this year’s Piping Live! Learn@Live! will take place over two days – Wednesday 14 and Thursday 15 August at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. It will be two full days of workshops looking at topics and genres across the spectrum […]
Tickets for this year’s Glenfiddich are now on sale online. A major event in the solo piping calendar, details of the qualifying pipers will be released once the pipers have accepted the invitation. The Glenfiddich, supported by The William Grant Foundation, has been held in the ballroom of Blair Castle […]
The 2019 Highlands and Islands Young Piper of the Year contest took place yesterday at Sgoil Lionacleit on the Isle of Benbecula, Scotland. The event is organised annually by the Uist and Barra Piping Association. It was a good day for Bobby Allen of Chryston in North Lanarkshire – and […]
Scotland’s national body for Gaelic arts youth tuition festivals – the fèis movement – is looking to recruit freelance Gaelic-speaking tutors to deliver a programme in nurseries and primary schools throughout Scotland’s ‘central belt’ area. Fèisean nan Gàidheal’s ‘Fèisgoil’ project delivers language, music, arts and cultural services to schools, local […]
The deadline is approaching for submissions to be sent in for the composing competition organised by Taigh Sgire Sholais, in association with The National Piping Centre. As reported last month, the competition is for a new March to mark this year’s 170th anniversary of The Battle of Sollas. The deadline […]
Wilson Brown, an instructor at The National Piping Centre, has raised over £1,700 for Prostate Cancer UK after taking part in a recent charity walk around Glasgow’s Pollok Park. Wilson, an instructor at The National Piping Centre piped all the way around the route. The former Gold Medallist and Strathclyde […]
Updated with Junior results – After a couple of weeks of enjoyable weather around Scotland’s highland games, conditions at Askernish on the Isle of South Uist today were terrible. After a morning of heavy rain it wasn’t until 1.30pm that the games commenced. The solo piping results were: Ceòl Mòr […]
GREY’S NOTES by Michael Grey Piping Today #54, 2011. When a brand gets to be used as a verb you know the product is a popular, if not powerful, thing: “Facebook me when you’re done practicing your birls” and “Great idea about twice-through pipe band MSR contests, I’m gonna Twitter […]
Updated with CLASP results. – It was a humid and dry day today in Inveraray in glorious Argyll for the annual Inveraray Highland Games. In the Ceòl Mòr competitions, Cameron MacDougall from Nigg took the A Grade trophy, John Dew the B Grade trophy, while young Brodie Watson-Massey Andrew Hutton […]
The results from yesterday’s Rosneath Games were: P/A Grade Ceòl Mòr – 1. William Geddes (Earl of Seaforth’s Salute); 2. Allan Russell; 3. Darach Urquhart; 4. Angus D. MacColl;Judges: Alan Forbes and Neil Mulvie.March – 1. Angus MacColl; 2. Steven Gray; 3. William Geddes; 4. Sarah Muir.Strathspey and Reel – […]
By Tom Johnstone The Festival Interceltique Lorient – ‘Interceltic Festival of Lorient’ in English – takes place next month from August 2-11 in the Breton town of that name. It is 10 days and 10 nights of wonderful Celtic music, shows and events. I have been the Scottish Delegate for […]
