By JEANNIE CAMPBELL MBE • PART 1 • JAN to APRIL 1923 Looking back one hundred years to 1923 shows that some events were similar to those of today but there were many differences. In 1923 the piping world had to rely on word of mouth or the newspapers to […]
By DR. ANDREW BOVA. Piping Today #97. August 2019. For most of us pipers, our performances are confined to a few standard stages. For some, this may be competition, either solo or band. For others, this may be playing in a ‘street band’, performing mostly at parades and social functions. […]
PART THREE • By JEANNIE CAMPBELL MBE In 1860 the Glasgow Celtic Society announced that: “The directors having resolved on suspending for a season their Annual Games have arranged an Excursion Trip per the ‘Craignish Castle’ to Arrochar on Thursday 5th July at 8.30am returning from thence at 6pm. At […]
GREY’S NOTES by Michael Grey. November 2023. Going along to get along. You may know that I have landed unexpectedly and feet first in the land of pipe bands. Where, say, this past summer I was on the periphery – a listener, a judge, a toe-tapping outsider – this autumn […]
PART TWO • By JEANNIE CAMPBELL MBE The second Grand National Gathering was advertised for Thursday and Friday 5th and 6th August 1858, with prize money and medals to a larger amount than ever offered to be competed for in Scotland. Gentlemen and youths connected with the Highlands and members […]
PART ONE • By JEANNIE CAMPBELL MBE The Glasgow Celtic Society was constituted on 5th February 1857 with a membership of 527. The objects were the preservation of the language, literature, music, poetry, antiquities, and athletic games of the Highlanders of Scotland, the encouragement of the more general use of […]
“Mind aw they adverts for animal shelters?The ones wi’ wee sad lookin’ dugs an’ that?That’s wit they pipes looked like whenah first clapped eyes on them” Dan Nevans, to anyone who would listen, February 2017 by Dan Nevans. Piping Today #86, 2017. Stop reading this article. You’re not ready. Take five […]
This article was published in Piping Today magazine in 2004 and featured a concert where all the pipes played in the concert were made by Hamish and Fin Moore. The concert was in Pitlochry Town Hall in 2003 which was recorded by Greentrax and released as an album called The Piper & […]
Callum Beaumont reached the pinnacle of piping with his overall win of the Glenfiddich Championship 2023 on Saturday, and the win fulfils a prediction given to him after his first Gold Medal win in 2011. The article below is from Piping Today in 2011 where Callum talks about very successful […]
• PART 18 • BY JEANNIE CAMPBELL MBE. The news of a London Gathering appeared in the Northern Chronicle on Wednesday, December 28, 1910: “London Highland Athletic Club. The Highland Gathering at Stamford Bridge, London, held annually since the foundation of the Highland Athletic Club in 1893, was an event […]
