The Festival of Juvenile Solo Piping Competition took place in Auchenharvie Academy, Stevenston, on Saturday, October 22, 2022. The results were as follows: Overall Winners Junior Champion: Owen McCreadie, Boghall & BathgateSenior Champion: Gregor Grierson, Dumfries 14 & under Piping Archie Johnston, Oban High School PB Owen McCreadie, Boghall & […]
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Results from the Lochnell Intermediate Youth Piping Championship 2022
The Lochnell Intermediate Youth Piping Championship took place yesterday, October 22, at Lochnell Castle in Benderloch, Argyll. The competitors were seven of Scotland’s finest pipers under the age of twenty-two: Ruairidh Brown, Andrew Ferguson, Luke Kennedy, Gregor MacDonald, Angus MacPhee, Cameron May and Brodie Watson-Massey. The competition is run by […]
Tickets available for the Glenfiddich Piping Championship on October 29
Ten of the world’s greatest solo pipers will compete in this year’s Glenfiddich Piping Championship, as the renowned competition returns to the spectacular Blair Castle on Saturday, October 29. Competing this year are defending champion Jack Lee, Dollar’s Callum Beaumont, Glasgow-based Canadian piper Glenn Brown, Jamie Forrester from London, Canadian […]
The George Sherriff Memorial Competition is back in November 2022
After its cancelation in 2020 and going online in 2021, the George Sherriff Memorial Invitational competition is returning ‘live’ on November 19, 2022. It’s the 26th year for the contest and it’s shaping up to be a spectacular competition. Many previous winners of The Sherriff have gone on to win some of the […]
Solo Piping Judges’ Association introduce a new mentoring system
The Solo Piping Judges Association (SPJA) held a well-attended annual general meeting online, Sunday October 16. The Association welcomed the return of live solo piping events during 2022 and observed that this had been a successful season despite the two-year hiatus effected by the Covid-19 Pandemic. Colin MacLellan, Euan Anderson and Roddy […]
Traditional music sessions resume tonight in The Pipers’ Tryst
Weekly traditional music sessions begin this evening, Tuesday, October 18, from 6-9pm in The Pipers’ Tryst at The National Piping Centre. From next week, on October 24, they move to a regular Monday night session from 6-9pm, and are also planned for Monday, October 31 and November 7. Check on […]
The Lochnell Intermediate Youth Championship returns with a strong line up in its second year
The Lochnell Intermediate Youth Championship will be held this Saturday, October 22, at the chapel in Lochnell Castle with the kind permission of the Earl of Dundonald and hosted by his son Lord Archie Cochrane. The Championship will bring together seven of Scotland’s finest Intermediate players under the age of […]
The Lillian Livingstone Piobaireachd Bursary announced by PPBSO
The Pipers’ & Pipe Band Society of Ontario has announced a new bursary for solo piping. The Lillian Livingstone Solo Amateur Piobaireachd Bursary will be awarded annually to the winner of the Championship Supreme award for senior amateur piobaireachd. The winner will receive $3000 to allow for travel and other […]
Solo piping results from the Mòd in Perth
The junior and adult solo piping competitions at The Royal National Mòd are taking place in Perth today, Saturday, October 15. Organisers An Comunn Gàidhealach partnered with The Competing Pipers Association, The Army School of Bagpipe Music and Highland Drumming and the Gordon Duncan Memorial Trust to support its piping competitions […]
Vale of Atholl appoint Roddy Weir as lead tutor
Roddy Weir, ex-Pipe Major of the Royal Highland Fusiliers, and former member of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards plus Grade 1 civilian bands, has been appointed as the lead tutor of the Vale of Atholl Pipe Band. In addition, the Fife-based piping instructor takes over from Gary Nimmo as Pipe […]
