Ashley McMichael, pictured right, was declared the All Ireland Champion Piper for 2019. The annual competition was held earlier today at Lusk National School, just outside Dublin. The Field Marshal Montgomery Pipe Band stalwart is a previous winner of the competition as well as the Northern Ireland Piper of the […]
Mark Stewart has been appointed Pipe Major of the Vale of Atholl. Stewart is something of a Vale veteran, having learned first of all as a nine-year-old with Andy Renwick and then Ian Duncan, two previous Pipe Majors of the Perthshire-based organisation. He progressed to the Vale’s Juvenile band then […]
A tribute to Dr Kenneth MacKay will be held this Saturday (21st) in the highland village where he lived and worked for many years. Dr Kenneth MacKay was an important piping figure during the post-War years. Born in Ross-shire at the turn of the 20th century he lived and worked […]
Dr. J. David Hester, piper, pibroch scholar and enthusiast, died suddenly on September 12. He was 57 and lived in Baltimore, Maryland. David was the main figure behind the alt.pibroch website through which he, along with Barnaby Brown, promoted pibroch interpretation by “making challenging historical material easier to find, understand […]
Pipe Bands Australia’s leadership team was re-elected at the organisation’s AGM on September 13. Pipe Bands Australia’s (PBA) is the governing body for Australia’s six pipe band associations (comprising 110 bands) and at the AGM, two members from each association has a vote. The AGM and conference is a biennial […]
Angus MacColl, pictured right, was the overall winner at the 20th annual Springbank Invitational which was held today at the Seafield Hotel in Campbeltown , Argyll, Scotland. The other invited pipers were: Willie McCallum, Stuart Liddell, Roddy MacLeod, Iain Speirs, Callum Beaumont, Finlay Johnston, Glenn Brown and Peter McCalister. Results: […]
Brian Lamond from Fife was the overall winner in the solo piping contests held today at a dreich Pitlochry Highland Games. MSR – 1. Calum Wynd; 2. Jonathan Simpson; 3. Craig Sutherland; 4. Bruce Erskine; 5. Donald McPhee.Judges: Barry Donaldson and Robert Wallace. 6/8 March – 1. Brian Lamond; 2. […]
Asked about his early days in piping, Bob McFie leans back in his chair in a teaching room in The National Piping Centre Otago Street and raises his eyes to the sky. “I was six when my father gave me my first practice chanter and about nine or ten when […]
A Piping and Drumming Forum and Workshop is planned this month for instructors working in schools in Scotland. This will be the third such workshop in as many years. The workshop, which takes place at The National Piping Centre’s (NPC) Glasgow city centre headquarters in McPhater Street on September 30, […]
Blairgowrie Highland Games took place on Sunday in conditions that were “almost perfect,” writes our correspondent. Entries were the highest ever at this popular Perthshire event and the standard was high. Pipe Major Ben Duncan (SCOTS DG) won the Open overall title and Brodie Watson-Massey won the Jimmy McGregor Memorial […]
