The American Pipe Band Championship took place as part of The Virginia International Tattoo at Scope Plaza on Saturday, April 20, 2024. Grade Two – American Champions 2024 Best Drum Corps: Ulster ScottishBest March Strathspey and Reel: Ulster ScottishBest Medley Selection: Ulster Scottish Grade Three – American Champions 2024 Best […]
The City of Edinburgh Pipe Band hosted their legendary Pipe Major’s Wheel of Fortune competition yesterday, Sunday, April 21, at Danderhall Miners Club in Midlothian. Craig Sutherland of Crieff took top prize, winning the Wheel of Fortune medley. Cameron Drummond of Edinburgh enjoyed treble success, winning the March, Strathspey and […]
The Scottish Pipers’ Association professional competition was held at the National Piping Centre yesterday, April 6. Logan Tannock, SPA President, said it was the largest number of competitors they have ever had, and the largest audience also. The event was sponsored by the Piobaireachd Society and the Competing Pipers’ Association. […]
By Ken A. Cameron, Chairman, LPS. Lochaber & District’s Youth Piping & Drumming Competition kicked off at 9.30am in the Gaelic Primary School on Saturday, March 23 in Fort William. Our chanter and piping adjudicators this year were P/M Alistair Duthie, Jon Don MacKenzie, P/M Moira Robertson and P/M D.J. […]
The Duncan Johnstone Memorial Piping Competition was held today, March 23, at the National Piping Centre in Glasgow. The event was open to B and C Grade members of the Competing Pipers’ Association and attracted a large entry. Despite this, all events were completed by 5.30pm and the prize giving […]
The New Zealand Pipe Band Championships took place on Friday and Saturday, March 15 and 16 in Auckland. The full results are below, and the 8-hour long livestreams from Friday and Saturday are available to watch again now on YouTube. Grade 1 Grade 1 DRUMMING Grade 2 Grade 2 DRUMMING […]
Renfrewshire pupils bag medal at major music championships Renfrewshire Schools Pipe Band hit the right note with the judges at this year’s annual Scottish Schools Pipe Band Championship (SSPBC), winning the highly-contested Freestyle category. In what was one of the most anticipated dates in the piping calendar, 97 schools went head-to-head vying for success […]
The Glasgow Highland Club’s Annual Competitions for schools’ pipe bands and individual pipers and drummers was held at Hutchesons’ Grammar School on Sunday, February 25, 2024. There was a strong entry to the competition with nine pipe bands competing and some 85 pipers and drummers entering the solo competitions. This […]
The second CLASP in-person competition of 2024 was held today, Saturday, March 2 at the National Piping Centre. The judges were Emmet Conway (Light music) and Jonathan Greenlees (Piobaireachd). Overall winner Grade 1 – John Frater Overall winner Grade 2 – John Nevans Overall winner Grade 3 – Kathryn McEwan Grade 1 […]
Connor Sinclair retained the Ardmore Cup yesterday, February 24, in Ardmore, Waterford, Ireland. This years competition featured ten top pipers: Alister Donaghy, Chris Earls, James Frazer, Bruce Gandy, Angus MacColl, Willie McCallum, Connor Sinclair, James Stone, Alen Tully and Scott Wallace. Judges were David Caldwell, Tim Farrelly and John Wilson. […]
