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 […]
Stuart Liddell from Inveraray, Scotland won the Masters Solo Piping Competition yesterday. The competition is the second major event of the festival, the first being the Silver Chanter which was held on Saturday night and which was won by Jack Lee, Canada. Liddell, was the overall winner with a first […]
Arnold Edwards was the overall winner of the Grade 3 Competition League for Amateur Solo Pipers (CLASP) that was held today at The Convent Chapel, which is part of St Aloysius College in Glasgow. RESULTS: Full Piobaireachd – 1. Arnold Edwards; 2. Ali Abdul Salam; 3. Stephen Ross Pack. Piobaireachd […]
The 16th year of Piping Live! Glasgow International Piping Festival kicked off today with a welcome from Eva Bolander, Glasgow’s Lord Provost (the civic head of the local council) and Chieftain of the festival. The Swedish-born politician welcomed the piping and pipe band world to the city – and joined […]
The results from the solo piping competitions at yesterday’s highland games at Nethybridge in Scotland’s Cairngorm National Park are: Ceòl Mòr – 1. Anna Kummerlöw (Too Long in this Condition); 2. James Feeney (The Battle of Waternish); 3. Gordon Barclay (Maol Donn); 4. Zephan Knickel, (MacKay’s Banner); 5. Angus MacPhee […]
Jack Lee of British Columbia, Canada was the winner of the 2019 Silver Chanter, the annual invitational piobaireachd competition established in 1967 by Seumas MacNeill, John MacFadyen and Dame Flora MacLeod of MacLeod to honour tunes composed by or associated with the MacCrimmon dynasty of pipers. The contest, the 53rd, […]
Updated with the full results: Scotland’s Boghall & Bathgate Caledonia won the Grade 1 competition at North Berwick today. St. Thomas Alumni of Houston, Texas took the Grade 2 title and placed third in Grade 1 when they played up in the MSR contest. Five Grade 1 bands withdrew. The […]
Ballater Highland Games took place in Monaltrie Park in the Aberdeenshire village today. RESULTS: Ceòl Mòr – 1. Allan Russell (pictured); 2. Greig Canning; 3. Anna Kummerlow; 4. Jonathon Simpson; 5. Jim Feeney; 6. Calum Brown.Judges: Ron Clark and Duncan Watson. March – 1. Allan Russell; 2. Calum Brown; 3. […]
The second day of the Skye Gathering saw John Dew from Crieff win the Kemble Star. Yesterday’s winner of the Dunvegan Medal, Sarah Muir from Campbeltown, won the Peter MacFarquhar Star. RESULTS: March (Kemble Star) – 1. John Dew (Duke of Roxburgh’s Farewell to Blackmount Forest, Pipe Major Roddy MacLeod […]
