Callum Beaumont wins his second Glenfiddich in a row

The 51st Glenfiddich Piping Championship took place today, October 26, 2024, at Blair Castle in Perthshire and was won by Callum Beaumont defending the title he won in 2023. Callum won the MSR event today and his third place in the piobaireachd gave him the overall win. Stuart Liddell won the Piobaireachd event playing The Unjust Incarceration.

Ian Duncan received the Balvenie Medal, and it was presented by Craig Muirhead and Helen Urquhart. The Balvenie Medal was introduced the the Glenfiddich Piping Championship in 1985 and is awarded for “Services to Piping”. The full results are:

MSR

1. Callum Beaumont – Mrs. Duncan MacFadyen, Inveraray Castle, Bessie McIntyre
2. Alasdair Henderson – Donald MacLellan of Rothesay, Bob of Fettercairn, The Sheepwife
3. Nick Hudson – Parker’s Welcome to Perthshire, Kirstie McCalman’s Favourite, Drumlithie
4. Chris Armstrong – The Lochaber Gathering, The Bob of Fettercairn, Willie Murray’s
5. Stuart Liddell – Bonnie Ann, John Roy Stewart, John Morrison Assynt House
   Judges: Angus MacDonald, Iain MacFadyen, Richard Parkes

Piobaireachd

1. Stuart Liddell – The Unjust Incarceration
2. Finlay Johnston – Donald Gruamachs March
3. Callum Beaumont – Lament for Donald Ban MacCrimmon
4. Nick Hudson – Lament for the Laird of Anapool
5. Alan Bevan – In Praise of Morag
   Judges: Ian Duncan, Murray Henderson, John Wilson