The Gordon Castle Highland Games took place yesterday, May 15, 2022, in Fochabers, Moray. The overall champion was John MacDonald and the Junior overall champion was Jake Robertson. Open Piobaireachd1. Gordon Barclay2. John McDonald3. James McPetrie4. Hamish Munro5. Andrew YuOpen March1. Hamish Munro2. John McDonald3. James McPetrie4. Gordon Barclay5. Andrew […]
by KEN A. CAMERON Chairman, Lochaber Piping Society After all the forced dearth of “real” events over the last couple of years, holding a proper in-person event so soon after relaxation of the COVID rules could have gone either of two ways – maybe we wouldn’t get many contestants as […]
Today, March 26, marked the first CLASP in-person event since January 2020. It took place at The National Piping Centre, Otago Street, Glasgow, March 26. There was a good number of entries across Grades 1, 2 and 3. Thanks to the stewards who kindly volunteered their time, Janette Greenwood & […]
The CLASP ‘Live Online’ competition took place over the Zoom platform. Amateur pipers from all over the world joined to compete ‘live’ on Saturday, February 5 and captured their ‘live’ performance using a video recording device which was later sent to the judges. A special mention to the volunteer online […]
By Margaret Dunn Charles-David Mitchell, Ben Hall, Alasdair Beaton and James Skinner were the overall winners for their respective grades in the recent ‘Live Online’ contest organised by the Competition League for Amateur Solo Pipers (CLASP). The competition was held via Zoom videoconference software on Saturday, November 13. It was […]
Mark McClennan from Guelph in Ontario was the overall winner at the 2021 George Sherriff Memorial Invitational that took place virtually at the weekend. It was the 25th anniversary of this popular competition for North America’s ten leading amateur pipers. The competition is named in honour of the Glasgow-born stalwart […]
US piper, Tim Cummings has released an interesting new album. The Birds’ Flight is the culmination of several years’ worth of collaboration between Tim and Pete Sutherland (fiddle, song), and Brad Kolodner (banjo). The Vermont-based composer and multi-instrumentalist has included traditional pipe tunes restyled as Appalachian-style hoedowns and waltzes. Tim […]
London: November 6 – Callum Beaumont of Dollar, Scotland took the overall aggregate prize at the 81st annual London Championship yesterday. Beaumont’s success is the second time he has been the overall champion piper at this competition – the first time being in 2019 – and means he will be […]
[updated with photograph] London, England – November 5, 2021 – Glenn Brown was awarded the Bràtach Gorm tonight in from of a good-sized audience in the Caledonian Club in Belgravia. It’s the second time Glenn has won this competition and his win means he is the second invitee to next […]
The Lowland & Border Pipers’ Society (LBPS) held its annual conference on Saturday in Galashiels in the Scottish Borders region. The conference – the ‘Collogue’ – was held in Old Gala House, which dates to 1583. The Society held two competition categories that were unable to be included at its […]
