Sean McKeown, right, was the overall winner yesterday at the Lochaber Gathering which was held once again in the Nevis Centre in Fort William. Sean, from Ontario, beat 10 other quality competitors for the Gold Lochaber Axe for Piobaireachd. He also gained two other firsts. Earlier this year, organisers changed […]
[Updated with group photo] Angus D. MacColl won the 2019 Captain John A. MacLellan MBE Memorial Competition held last night at the Waldorf-Astoria Caledonia Hotel in Edinburgh His winning tune was The Phantom Piper of Corrieyairick. In the Piping Times of June 2005 Lt Col D.J.S. Murray wrote about the […]
One of Scotland’s most iconic and historic highland games, the 178th Lonach Gathering, took place today in Bellabeg in Strathdon, Aberdeenshire, writes our correspondent. Bellabeg is roughly 40 miles west from Aberdeen. It was a humid and sunny day and a most enjoyable one for the large crowd. The day […]
Stuart Liddell, pictured right, rounded off what has been a phenomenal week for him by winning the Senior Piobaireachd at the 2019 Argyllshire Gathering which kicked off today in of Oban in wet weather. This is the Inveraray piper’s fifth win of the Senior Piobaireachd at Oban. Last Saturday, Liddell […]
Inveraray & District Pipe Band won the 2019 World Pipe Band Champions in Glasgow today. It was a day of sunny and warm weather conditions at Glasgow Green albeit windy and rainy at times. The band competed over two days against 14 other finalists in the Grade 1 competition, a […]
Callum Beaumont of Dollar won the fourth annual Pipe Major Alasdair Gillies Memorial Recital Challenge. Callum won against three other invited top-tier soloists all of whom are from Scotland: Angus MacColl from Benderloch; Stuart Liddell from Inveraray; and Finlay Johnston from Glasgow. The format of the event is simple: each […]
Brodie Watson-Massey from Edinburgh, Scotland won this year’s Pipe Idol competition. The competition was held over four heats at the 2019 Piping Live! Glasgow International Piping Festival in Glasgow with the Grand Final being held at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall this evening. Brodie who competed in the final against […]
Charles Morris of Los Angeles, California, USA was the overall winner of the Grade 1 CLASP competition. Charles played a modern composition, The Sound of the Sea, composed by Pipe Major John MacKenzie. The tune can be found in the Piobaireachd Society 20th Century Collection. RESULTS: Ceòl Mòr – 1. […]
Field Marshal Montgomery’s quartet won the International Quartet contest last night. The contest was held over two rounds (an MSR then a Medley) at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. The bands were judged by eight ‘secret’ judges sitting throughout the 400+ audience The other competing bands were, in alphabetical order: […]
The Grade 2 Competition League for Amateur Solo Pipers (CLASP) took place earlier today during the Piping Live! festival in Glasgow, Scotland. The results were: Piobaireachd – 1. Dugald MacLeod; 2. Sultan Al Rawahi; 3. Anne Gallo. 2/4 March – 1. Dugald MacLeod; 2. Anne Gallow; 3. Douglas Hamilton Strathspey […]
