Solo piping in high spirits after the Worlds at Crieff Highland Gathering

By Robert Paterson, Director, Crieff Highland Gathering

Another very hot day for pipers at Crieff Highland Gathering began at 0930 with 15 juniors competing on the light music board with entrants from Methill to Massachusetts, and what seemed like everywhere else in-between. The senior light music gathered 17 players who all entertained afterwards with a straight through MSR from 12 noon onwards.

Crieff games also had one piobaireachd board with 15 seniors playing in shade under trees in top corner of Crieff’s Market Park. 

Playing conditions for competitors were understandably tricky with such glorious but roasting weather and made even more of a challenge by each board being polar opposite. Piobaireachd in the cool shade and MSR in the stoating sun. Thank you to our sponsors for the solo piping, The Glenturret Distillery, for backing the event and their large gaezbo which offered a bit of solar respite for listeners of the light music. A great day of piping!

Open Piobaireachd

1. Sean McKeown – Canada
2. Angus MacPhee 
3. Kyle Cameron 
4. Jamie Hawke – Aus
5. Callum Wynd
   Judges: Bill Wotherspoon and Peter McCalister

Open MSR 

1. Arran Green
2. Anna Kummerlöw – GER
3. Sean McKeown – Canada 
4. Callum Carn 
5. Walter Glendinning
   Judges: Jimmy Banks and Euan Anderson

Junior MSR U-18 

1. Magnus Stone – US
2. Sam Foote – NZ
3. Kai Hay 
4. Alasdair Bullock 
5. Jack Folan
   Judges: Jimmy Banks and Euan Anderson

Junior Jig U-18

1. Kai Hay
2. Sam Foote – NZ
3. Magus Stone – USA
4. Nickolas Jackson – AUS
5. Lily Robertson
   Judges: Jimmy Banks and Euan Anderson