By Margaret Dunn. The 2020 World Solo Amateur Piping Competition, held online as part of this year’s Piping Live! festival, saw a record 125 entries from amateur pipers around the world. The results are below. The CLASP stewards connected live over 120 times last Saturday (August 8) with pipers from […]
Ashley MacDonald, Director of the Lewis & Harris Youth Pipe Band writes: “The Lewis & Harris Youth Pipe Band [pictured] usually holds an indoor solo competition every year. It’s limited to residents in the Western Isles, from the Butt of Lewis to Barra, and with over 500 pupils playing/learning chanter […]
By Margaret Dunn Yesterday, CLASP (Competition League for Amateur Solo Pipers) held its annual end-of-season competition. The competition marked the end of our 2019/2020 CLASP season and, as with our previous competition on March 23, this one was held digitally due to Covid-19 situation. It was a great success and […]
The online junior piping and drumming competition organised by Fife-based pipe band, Burntisland & District, has been voted a success by competitors, judges and organisers. A total of 202 entries were received in the piping (128 on pipes and 74 on chanter) from competitors in seven countries: the United Kingdom, […]
This weekend’s amateur piping competition held for members of the Competition League for Amateur Solo Pipers (CLASP) was voted an overwhelming success by competitors and judges alike. As a result of the Conronavirus pandemic, the contest was held using videoconferencing technology and audio files. Competitors – from around the world […]
The 2020 New Zealand Championships were held this weekend at Queen’s Park in Invercargill. Canterbury Caledonian Society retained the title, having won it in 2019. Results: Grade 1Medley – 1. Canterbury Caledonian Society; 2. Manawatu Scottish; 3. New Zealand Police; 4. Auckland & District.MSR – 1. Canterbury Caledonian Society; 2. Manawatu Scottish; […]
The funeral of Frank Andrews, pictured, will take place at the 1st Portglenone Presbyterian Church on March 12 at 1pm with the interment afterwards at Portglenone Church of Ireland Churchyard.. Frank, who had been a member of the McNeillstown Pipe Band – and former Pipe Major – for more than […]
March 7, Glasgow, Scotland – Angus D. MacColl from Benderloch near Oban won the Glasgow Uist & Barra Association’s annual invitational solo piping competition. The competition was held today in front of a capacity audience at The National Piping Centre Otago Street in Glasgow’s west end. The Argyll piper won […]
The 28th annual Archie Kenneth Quaich competition took place today in the Edinburgh rooms of the Royal Scottish Pipers’ Society. The winner was Andrew Park who won for the second time. Andrew also won in 2013. Peter McCallister was fear an tighe. Donald MacPhee and Patricia Henderson were the judges. […]
Calum Brown won the last quarter final heat of the Scots Guards Association’s current Knockout series held yesterday at the Scots Guards Club in Haymarket, Edinburgh. The Inveraray & District Pipe Band piper, a native of the northeast of Scotland, won over Bradley Parker, formerly of Field Marshal Montgomery Pipe […]
