The 2024 Glenfiddich Piping Championship takes place today in the Great Hall of Blair Castle, Pitlochry in Perthshire. There is still time to sign up to the live stream link below, which is only £15 for a full day of world class solo piping. The livestream link will go live just before 10am this morning.
Livestream tickets for the Glenfiddich 2024 are available here.
This year’s competitors are:
- Callum Beaumont – 2023 Glenfiddich Champion
- Chris Armstrong – Argyllshire Gathering Former Winners MSR Winner
- Alan Bevan – Piping Live! Masters Overall Winner
- Cameron Drummond – Argyllshire Gathering Gold Medallist
- Alasdair Henderson – Argyllshire Gathering Senior Piobaireachd Winner
- Nick Hudson – Northern Meeting Clasp Winner (Senior Piobaireachd)
- Finlay Johnston – 2023 Scottish Piping Society of London Annual Competition Overall Winner
- Stuart Liddell – Northern Meeting Silver Star Winner (Former Winners MSR)
- Roddy MacLeod MBE – 2023 Bratach Gorm Winner
- Craig Sutherland – Northern Meeting Gold Medallist
The judges for this year are: Piobaireachd – Murray Henderson, Ian Duncan, John Wilson
March, Strathspey & Reel – Iain MacFadyen BEM, Dr Angus MacDonald, Richard Parkes MBE
And this year’s Fear an Taigh is Bob Worrall.
For 2024, the National Piping Centre is using a new streaming service provider. This means everyone will need to register for a new account to be able to tune in. We have a step-by-step guide below to help you through the process. All event timings are in UK time.
Things to know
- The livestream is £15 to watch this year’s Glenfiddich Piping Championship.
- It will go live just before 10am on Saturday 26th October 2024
- The first time you go to buy a stream, you need to click on the PAY TO WATCH or LOGIN button in the top right corner, which then gives you an option register for a new account.
- If you watched any of Piping Live!’s livestream this year, you can just login with that account, and do not need to re-register.
- After registration, you can login to your account and will be prompted to pay for the stream after the first time you register.
- The streams will work on desktops, laptops, ipads and web-emabled TVs. We wouldn’t recommend using a phone to stream these events.
- Please use Google Chrome (preferred), Mozilla Firefox or Safari on apple devices as your browser to watch the stream. This software DOES NOT WORK on Microsoft, especially Edge browser.
- Please register and login using the device you want to watch from. The streaming platform has software built into it to protect paid content from being shared, that doesn’t let you switch device very easily. We would recommend using the same device you register with, to watch on.
How to register and watch
- Click the Register Online Here button below.
- When the page loads you will see an image of the 2023 Glenfiddich group with a button that says Watch Online – click this button.
- If this is your first purchase through this new stream – complete the “Don’t Have an Account” section.
- Fill in your details and click register.
- Please remember the email address and password as you create as you will need this to access the stream.
- It will then return you to the Group picture page – Click the Pay To Watch Button again.
- You will then be prompted to enter your credit card details.
- Once the payment has been processed, it will then say “Continue to Stream” – click this link
- It will then return you to the Group picture screen with the PAY TO WATCH button – click the PAY TO WATCH button. You WILL NOT BE CHARGED AGAIN, this returns you to the login screen
- Once you come back to the login screen, enter your email address and password that you created on registering, and you will be able to access the online content when it goes live.
To watch on the day
- Come back to this page, scroll down and click the Register Online Here button below.
- It will take you to the Group Picture page with Pay to Watch button
- Click the “Pay to Watch” button – You WILL NOT BE CHARGED AGAIN, this takes you to the login screen
- Once you come back to the login screen, enter the email address and password that you created on registering
- You will then be logged in an able to watch the stream which will be live just before 10am UK time on Saturday 26th October.
- If you get a message saying ‘invalid credentials’ when you log in for a live stream you have already purchased, we are advised that you should try a different browser – Microsoft browsers have proved particularly erratic. Google Chrome appears to be the most reliable browser.
Rewatch will be available shortly after the event until Sunday 24th November, so you will have a whole month to enjoy the performances after the day. You will be emailed with a link to directly watch the performance back after the day.