Jack Lee took home the overall prize at the 2021 Glenfiddich Piping Championship, held yesterday in front of a live audience in the Ballroom of Blair Castle in Perthshire, Scotland. Jack’s 2nd place in the Piobaireachd and 3rd place in the MSR secure him the overall title. Competitors are asked […]
Competition Results
Stuart Marshall retains the 2021 Nicol-Brown
Stuart Marshall, pictured, from Stokesdale, North Carolina was the overall winner at this year’s Nicol-Brown Amateur Invitational Piping Competition. Marshall was also the overall winner in 2020. His win at this year’s Nicol-Brown follows his win in the 2021 CLASP World Solo Amateur Piping Competition, held during Piping Live!. This […]
Andrew Ferguson wins inaugural Lochnell contest
Andrew Ferguson of Dollar, Scotland was the overall winner at yesterday’s inaugural Lochnell Intermediate Piping Championship held at Lochnell Castle, Argyll. Andrew won the MSR and the Ceol Mòr in this competiton which pipers aged under 22. The standard of playing heard from all ten pipers was reported to be […]
Liddell, Forrester and Christie triumph at Capt. John Memorial
Stuart Liddell of Inveraray, Scotland was awarded the overall Edinburgh Castle Silver Trophy in Premier grade solo events at the eighth annual Captain John A. MacLellan MBE Solo Piping Competition. The competition did not take place last year due to the on-going COVID-19 pandemic. Today’s competition was held, as ever, […]
Peel Police, Boyd on top at Cobourg Games
Peel Regional Police won the Grade 2 competition at Cobourg Highland Games which took place yesterday in the picturesque town north east of Toronto and beside the shores of Lake Ontario. Andrea Boyd was the overall winner of the solo piping competition held for professional pipers. It was the first […]
Bobby Pinkman, 1954-2021 / Moisture issues / The Nicol-Brown ten / Pleasanton results
Following our brief report last Thursday that Bobby Pinkman (67) had died, we are now able to provide a fuller obituary on this popular figure in the piping and pipe band scene of East Lothian, Scotland. Robert – ‘Bobby’ – Pinkman was born in Gorebridge, a former mining village in […]
Results from Lochaber
The 2021 Lochaber Gathering took place in splendid sunshine today in Fort William. The results were as follows: Ceòl MòrP/A Grade – 1. Pipe Major Ben Duncan (MacDougall’s Gathering); 2. Sandy Cameron (End of the Great Bridge); 3 Cameron MacDougall (Old Men of the Shells); 4. Gordon McCready (Lament for the […]
Mid Ulster Solo Championships 2021
By Ian Burrows (RSPBANI Project Manager) As part of the Pipe Band Festival Showcase Events being organised by the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association, Northern Ireland branch (RSPBANI), the Mid Ulster Outdoor Solos took place last Saturday (August 21) with a healthy entry of 63 competitors. This was the first competitive […]
Leask takes A Grade March at Oban; Liddell S&R
Day 2 of this year’s Argyllshire Gathering – Oban Games held at Mossfield Park – saw with hot and sunny weather in this the 150th anniversary of the event. Approximately 35 competing pipers plus Oban High School Pipe Band led the march to the field. Before the piping competitions commenced, […]
Liddell wins Argyllshire Gathering milestone invitational
Stuart Liddell of Inveraray was the overall winner at the Argyllshire Gathering’s invitational solo piping competition, held today as part of the Gathering’s 150th anniversary. Liddell was placed first in the Piobaireachd and third in the March, Strathspey and Reel (MSR). A Medley competition was held for the first time […]