The overall winners from the 2021 World Solo Amateur Piping Competition held during Piping Live! last week are: Stuart Marshall (Grade 1), Ben Hall (Grade 2), Alasdair Beaton (Grade 3) and Riccardo Brunelli (Grade 4). They receive a keepsake Silver Medal and a free place on one of the National […]
Lincoln Hilton from Australia was the overall winner at the Gordon Duncan Memorial Piping Competition broadcast live this afternoon from the National Piping Centre (NPC) in Glasgow, Scotland as part of this year’s Piping Live! festival. Hilton won two of the three categories: sets in the Scottish, Irish and Breton […]
Gordon McCready from Renfrew in Scotland won the overall Professional category at the Pipers & Pipe Band Society of Ontario (PPBSO) fifth and final online event of 2021. This competition may – may – well prove to be the last big solo piping competition, in Canada and elsewhere, to be […]
We wish organisers well as they prepare to put on the first physical highland games in Scotland since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The games will go ahead in Aberdeenshire today. Almost 1,000 tickets have been made available for the Grampian Highland Gathering which will be held between 11:00am […]
By Margaret Dunn Thursday of Piping Live! is traditionally the day CLASP awards the league winners with their CLASP keepsake medals. The World Solo Amateur Piping Competition @ Piping Live! marks the start of the new CLASP season and the Piping Live! festival is the perfect setting to present the […]
Callum Beaumont of Bo’ness, Scotland won the 2021 annual Pipe Major Alasdair Gillies Memorial Recital Challenge. Callum won against four other invited top-tier soloists, all of whom are from Scotland: Stuart Liddell, Finlay Johnston, Angus MacColl and Sarah Muir. Roddy MacLeod MBE withdrew due to unforeseen circumstances. This was the […]
By Tom Johnstone, Scottish Delegate of the Lorient Interceltique Festival The 50th Lorient Interceltique Festival has gone ahead despite COVID-19. Strict measures have been put in place whereby anyone entering the festival area or venues must produce a certificate – a ‘Pass Sanitaire’ – to prove the person is COVID-free. […]
Callum Beaumont from Bo’ness in Scotland won the Masters Solo Piping Competition held throughout today in the National Piping Centre as part of the 2021 Piping Live! festival. Beaumont was the overall winner with a first in the Ceòl Mòr and when the results were calculated this was enough to […]
Geenock’s Battery Park has been confirmed as the venue for next year’s British Pipe Band Championships, the RSPBA confirmed today. Greenock is within the Inverclyde Council area in west central Scotland and overlooks the Firth of Clyde. It is downriver on the opposite side of the firth from Dumbarton where […]
The Kintail brand, which ran from 1971 until 2012, is back in business. Kintail was a well-known Scottish pipe making-company founded by Greig Sharp in 1971. After he died in 2009 his family kept the business going for a short time. Businessman and piper, Peter Weidig of Perthshire in Scotland […]
