[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 […]
Grampian Association (Corby) Pipe Band is recruiting new players for its Grade 3 and Grade 4 bands. The English pipe band, founded in 1968, is based in the Northamptonshire town of Corby, dubbed ‘Little Scotland’ due to numbers of Scots who migrated there from the 1930s onwards to work in […]
Day 2 of The 2019 Argyllshire Gathering – Oban Games – gets underway this morning at Mossfield Park. The march of the stewards led by the band comprising yesterday’s competing pipers – with new Gold Medallist, Andrew Hayes in the Pipe Major position and Ben McClamrock, winner of the Silver […]
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 […]
The 2019 World Pipe Band Championships concluded at 7.45pm last Saturday. 195 bands competed across the grades at this year’s event. Our photographers were on the Green to capture the day. Here is a small selection of their photographs:
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 […]
The 15 Grade 1 bands that entered this year’s World Pipe Band Championships kicked off their first day of competition in dreich, damp weather conditions. The bands had an MSR to play in the morning their own choice. They also chose which Medleys they would play for the afternoon. Despite […]
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 […]
