Junior and senior piping results from Birnam Games 2025

By STUART LETFORD

The 140th Birnam Highland Games took place today, Saturday, August 30, in the small historical Perthshire village. Weather conditions were ideal for most of the day but around mid-afternoon the increasingly-darkening clouds let loose.

The number of pipers competing was the biggest for many years – nine in the Juniors and 22 in the Seniors. To his credit, one piper withdrew from the Ceòl Mòr competition when he realised his teacher was on the bench. The results were:

Juniors

Open March

1. Arthur McKay
2. Maggie MacConnochie
3. Sam Foote
4. Kai Hay

Open Jig

1. Kai Hay
2. Maggie MacConnochie
3. Robert Tait
4. Sam Foote

Local March

1. Ewan MacAree

Local Strathspey and Reel

1. Ewan MacAree

Local Jig

1. Ewan MacAree

Overall Junior Winner

Maggie MacConnochie (New Zealand)

Senior

Ceòl Mòr

1. Gordon McCready
2. Callum Wynd
3. Anna Kummerlöw
4. Austin Diepenhorst
5. Cameron MacLeod
   Judges: Derek Fraser and Jack Taylor

March

1. Callum Wynd
2. Liam Nicholson
3. Greg Canning
4. Gordon McCready
5. Angus McPhee
   Judges: Robert Barnes and Tom Johnstone

Strathspey and Reel

1. Anna Kummerlöw
2. Gordon McCready
3. Greg Canning
4. Callum Wynd
5. Liam Nicholson
   Judges: Robert Barnes and Tom Johnstone

Jig

1. Callum Wynd
2. Joshua Chandler
3. Cameron MacLeod
4. Angus MacPhee
5. Gordon McCready
   Judge: Neill Mulvie