It was a chilly day in Fochabers with a good standard of playing in seniors and juniors, writes Jack Taylor. Of the nine adults three were returning to competition after a break. All played strongly, with Colin Gordon, librarian at Skye’s Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, being overall champion, and Brad Davidson […]
By Stuart Letford, Piping Times editor. The Novice Juvenile A grade competition at the 2019 British Pipe Band Championships was competed for by eight bands. With the exception of Boghall & Bathgate, the bands represented Scottish state and private schools. The overall standard in this contest – like the Grade […]
Calum Iain Brown, a member of Inveraray & District Pipe Band, has won this year’s knockout competition organised by the Scots Guards Association. Calum, pictured below with the trophy, beat the other finalist, Cameron MacDougall, by only four votes. Calum is a former winner of Pipe Idol (2014) and member […]
By Stuart Letford I arrived at Paisley around noon yesterday and after taking in the Novice Juvenile A contest (a critique will appear tomorrow), headed over to the Grade 1 arena, notebook in hand. These notes are my own and readers should bear in mind the judges – whose opinions, […]
St. Laurence O’Toole Pipe Band won the 2019 British Championship, the first of the RSPBA’s five major pipe band competitions, today at St. James’ Playing Field at Paisley, Scotland. In Grade 2, Closkelt maintained its consistency from last season and set out its stall with a fine run, taking the […]
The four solo pipers who will compete at this year’s Captain John A. MacLellan MBE Memorial Trust Dinner on Sunday, August 24, have been confirmed, featuring two Canadians and two Scots. Each piper is assigned a tune composed by, or strongly associated with, the late Captain John MacLellan. This year’s […]
The first concert has taken place of the all-female New Zealand pipe band that aims to raise awareness about breast cancer and raise funds to fight it. The band’s first concert took place on May 5 at the Charles Luney Auditorium in Christchurch. A total of 32 pipers and drummers […]
Scotland’s Vale of Atholl is once again going ‘back to the future’* as it takes steps to rebuild after its Grade 1 band took a “sabbatical” six months ago. The Perthshire-based outfit has secured sponsorship for a tuition programme and is to become a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation (SCIO). SCIO […]
Pipers around the world are being encouraged to record their favourite strathspey tomorrow (Wednesday 15th) and share it on social media with the hashtag #playastrathspeyday. Hands up for Trad, a music education and advocacy organisation based in Scotland, is behind the ‘World Play A Strathspey Day’ idea. A spokesman said: […]
The 41st William Livingstone, Senior, Memorial Invitational was held last Saturday (11th), in the historic James Street Armouries, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, in the Officers’ Mess of the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders of Canada. Andrew Carlisle of Pittsburgh won both the ceòl mòr and ceòl beag events. ‘The Livingstone’ contest is […]
