The 50th Glenfiddich Piping Championship is only two days away on October 29, 2023, and one can only hope it matches or exceeds “the best one yet” accolade that Seumas MacNeill gave to the 1977 Championship in his Piping Times report. However, in Seumas’s report below the reader will find […]
GREY’S NOTES by Michael Grey. Piping Today #84, 2017. Anyone who uses Facebook will know that from time to time there are interesting bits of information that break through the often unfiltered cringe-making that is the backbone of social media. And so it was last week, smashing through a sea […]
In the build up to the 50th Glenfiddich Piping Championship on October 29 we take another look through Piping Times back issues to Seumas MacNeill’s report from the Grant’s Championship in 1976. Seumas gives the contest a big build up in anticipation of hearing world class performances, but a tinge […]
With the 50th anniversary of the Glenfiddich Piping Championship approaching on October 28, we take a look through the Piping Times archives to a report titled Grant’s Championship, as the competition was originally known. Piping Times was edited by Seumas MacNeill at that time, and although the article below was […]
• PART 53 • BY JEANNIE CAMPBELL MBE. The Argyllshire Gathering in 1988 was again a three day event, with similar arrangements to the previous year. On Tuesday, August 23, the Silver Medal heats took place in the Masonic Hall and the Corran Hall. The set tunes were The Battle […]
by Dan Nevans. Piping Today #87, 2017. Scenario One: It’s finally happened, thanks to over population and pollution, Planet Earth is doomed and so you make your way to the nearest space port to hitch a ride to Alpha Centuri. In your rush to escape the heat death of the planet, […]
• PART 17 • BY JEANNIE CAMPBELL MBE. The Highland Gathering 1905 On Whit Monday, June 12, 1905 the eleventh L.H.A.C. Highland Gathering took place at the new Stamford Bridge grounds with 6000 spectators. The weather was dull but the threatening showers kept off until the programme was almost completed. […]
by Fergus Muirhead, at the Glenfiddich Piping Championship 2019 One of the biggest decisions a competitor has to make during his or her preparation for a competition is the tunes they are going to submit. In some events they have a free choice of music while in others they have […]
GREY’S NOTES by Michael Grey. Piping Today #83, 2016. When I first starting competing in Scotland and going around the competitions, there was no shortage of fun to go along with the games. Like today, only it seems to me that then there were more eccentric, larger-than-life types around the […]
Bagpipe News reporter investigates new footage of Donald Drone at Glasgow Green and reveals what really caused a delay for Grade 1 prizes at the Worlds this year!
