By Margaret Dunn. The 2020 World Solo Amateur Piping Competition, held online as part of this year’s Piping Live! festival, saw a record 125 entries from amateur pipers around the world. The results are below. The CLASP stewards connected live over 120 times last Saturday (August 8) with pipers from […]
By Mark Stewart and Stuart Letford. In the decades ahead we will reflect on the last few years as being one of the most creative periods in modern bagpipe composition, albeit music that’s suited mainly to pipe bands and folk ensembles. Whether some of this new music will be played […]
Competitors from seven different countries entered the Competing Pipers’ Association’s (CPA), recent online B Grade competition. The results are: B Grade Piobaireachd (29 competed) – 1. Bobby Durning (The Rout of Glen Fruin); 2. Fraser Allison (MacNeill of Barra’s March); 3. Teddy Krogh (Nameless, Dro O Dro); 4. Gwenael Dage […]
The funeral of Tommy Johnston will take place on Wednesday, August 12 at Dalnottar Crematorium in Clydebank near Glasgow at 11.30am. Due to restrictions placed on gatherings in Scotland as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, numbers are restricted to 20 people. Therefore, only Tommy’s family will be attendance although […]
By A. G. Kenneth In these days it seems that in the topmost ranks of competitive pìobaireachd playing, our leading competing pipers get little or no encouragement to play the shorter, lighter tunes in competition. Is this really desirable? The argument usually deployed against such a proposal is on the […]
The first virtual version of the Lewis and Harris Piping Society’s annual competition for junior players has been hailed a great success, with the online format appearing to enable a big increase in participation from pipers from the southern part of Scotland’s Outer Hebrides in particular. A total of 102 players […]
The annual London Competition has been postponed until next March, the Scottish Piping Society of London (SPSL) said today. However, an online CPA C Grade competition and and SPSL Members’ competition will go ahead on what would have been the weekend of the annual competition, November 7. SPSL President, Michael […]
The result of the online Aboyne Highland Games piping contests saw father and son, Bruce and Alex Gandy of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, take the first and second overall spots. Pipe Major Ben Duncan of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards was awarded third place overall. Held online due to the coronavirus […]
Concluding the story of James MacHardy, piper to Queen Victoria from 1878 until 1881, by his daughter, Mrs Edith Paterson. The 1938 Lonach was handicapped as so many have been since by cold, damp weather. Father took his place in the March of the Clansmen from Colquhonnie to the games […]
The eight pipers going through to the final of the MacGregor Memorial are: Ross Conner, Campbeltown;Luke Kennedy, Strathaven;Liam MacDonald, Wellesley, Ontario, Canada;Angus MacPhee, Inverness;Henry Paluch, Aorora, Ontario, CanadaAnna Smart, Dunfermline;Hazel Whyte, Larkhall;Campbell Wilson. Christchurch, New Zealand. Judges, Bill Livingstone and Stuart Samson MBE completed their adjudicating this weekend and reported […]
By Mark Stewart and Stuart Letford. In the decades ahead we will reflect on the last few years as being one of the most creative periods in modern bagpipe composition, albeit music that’s suited mainly to pipe bands and folk ensembles. Whether some of this new music will be played […]
