By MARGARET HOULIHAN.
This was another well attended ‘Live Online’ CLASP competition. For Grade 1 CLASP competitors, there was one final chance to win an invite to compete at the inaugural amateur invitational competition at The Sun Belt in Florida in November this year.
Eric Stein, who runs the Sun Belt Professional Invitational Competition in Florida, has expanded this event to include an amateur invitational and Eric is kindly sponsoring flights and accommodation for the Grade 1 Overall winner of this CLASP competition. This is a fantastic opportunity and prize and The National Piping Centre and CLASP would like to extend their thanks and appreciation to Eric Stein and The Sun Belt Competition. The National Piping Centre has also sponsored the overall winners with a free place at one of the NPC Gatherings. The overall winners will also receive a keepsake engraved Medal.
Thank you to all the judges, Finlay Johnston, Ann Gray, Darach Urquhart and John Dew. Also, thank you to all CLASP stewards and volunteers. The stewards were as follows; Collette o Connor, Andrea Jones, Eddie Boland, Sally Mason, Anna Binder and Sheila Stewart.
The overall results are as follows:
Grade 1 Overall Winner – Gillian Blaney
Grade 2 Overall Winner – Ernest Cho
Grade 3 Overall Winner – Colin Bathgate
Grade 4 Overall Winner – Vickie Gray
Overall winners receive a free place on an National Piping Centre Gathering 2023/2024 (Online or In person) https://www.thepipingcentre.co.uk/learn/seasonal-schools/npc-gatherings
Gillian Blaney and Charles-David Mitchell have already qualified for the Sun Belt Invitational competition, therefore the next overall placed piper in Grade 1, winning flights and accommodation to compete in Florida at The Sun Belt Amateur Competition, is Marc Warnock.
Grade 1 Piobaireachd
- Gillian Blaney
- Colin Innes
- Charles-David Mitchell
- Eddie Boland
Judge: Finlay Johnston
Grade 2 Piobaireachd
- Ernest Cho
- Donald Morrison
- Rob Rogers
- Brent Lowrie
- Anthony Kelly
- Chris MacKnight
Judge: Darach Urquhart
Grade 3 Piobaireachd
- Jay Hackney
- Sally Mason
- Joe Hardy
- Paul Fuentes
- Kathryn McEwan
- Sheila Stewart
Judge: Ann Gray
Grade 4 Piobaireachd
(Ground & next variation)
- Vickie Gray
- Sue Kennedy
- Peter Allen
- Steve Langford
- Murray Harper
- Riccardo Brunelli
Judge: Finlay Johnston
Grade 1 Light Music Results
Grade 1 March
- Gillian Blaney
- Marc Warnock
- Charles-David Mitchell
- Eddie Boland
- Theo Pratt
- Colin Innes
Judge: John Dew
Grade 1 Strathspey & Reel
- Gillian Blaney
- Eddie Boland
- Marc Warnock
- Theo Pratt
- Charles-David Mitchell
- Gordon Wallace
Judge: John Dew
Grade 1 – 6/8 March
- Theo Pratt
- David-Charles Mitchell
- Marc Warnock
- Gordon Wallace
- Gillian Blaney
- Colin Innes
Judge: John Dew
Grade 2 Light Music Results
Grade 2 March
- Ernest cho
- Joseph Morrison
- Mariko Arimoto
- Sarah Keir
- Donald Morrison
- Rob Rodgers
Judge: John Dew
Grade 2 Strathspey & Reel
- Joseph Morrison
- Donald Morrison
- James Carnegie
- Ernest cho
- Rob Rodgers
- Ted Hales
Judge: John Dew
Grade 2 – 6/8 March
- Ernest Cho
- Joseph Morrison
- James Carnegie
- Donald Morrison
- Mariko Arimoto
- Brent Lowire
Judge: John Dew
Grade 3 Light Music Results
Grade 3 March
- Colin Bathgate
- James Acheson
- John Todd
- Philip Burchodt
- Sally Mason
- Anthony MacLachlan
Judge: Darach Urquhart
Grade 3 Strathspey & Reel
- Colin Bathgate
- John Todd
- James Acheson
- Sally Mason
- Anthony MacLachlan
- Kathryn McEwan
Judge: Darach Urquhart
Grade 3 – 6/8 March
- Colin Bathgate
- John Todd
- Grant Walker
- Sheila Stewart
- Alan Wardrope
- Raul Fuentes
Judge: Darach Urquhart
Grade 4 Light Music Results
Grade 4 March
- Sophie Stringer
- Vickie Gray
- Steve Langford
- Sue Kennedy
- Adam Ruck
- Jennifer Curran
Judge: Ann Gray
Grade 4 Strathspey and Reel
- Sophie Stringer
- Vickie Gray
- Sue Kennedy
- Steve Langford
- Murray Harper
- Adam Ruck
Judge: Ann Gray
Grade 4 Jig
- Vickie Gray
- Sophie Stringer
- Murray Harper
- Steve Langford
- Ricardo Brunelli
- Adam Ruck
Judge: Ann Gray
