If you live in Ottawa and can’t be in Glasgow for Piping Live! this year, then you can still soak up some Piping Live! atmosphere in your home city. The PPBSO Ottawa Branch will be streaming three events at Vimy’s Brewing, Ottawa, as part of Piping Live! and the official […]
The North Uist Games were held on Friday, July 15, at Balelone Field, North Uist. Games secretary, Ada Campbell, said: “We had a very enjoyable day with good weather too. We had four Senior pipers, two from Skye and two local, and their performances were very much enjoyed. “The judges were Moira Robertson from Fort William […]
The Nicol-Brown Amateur Invitational which was due to be held on October 8 this year has been put on hold till 2023. The competition features the 10 best amateur pipers in North America and is dedicated to the memory of the ‘Bobs of Balmoral’ – Robert B. Nicol and Robert […]
The Inveraray Highland Games took place yesterday, Tuesday July 19, in the grounds of Inveraray Castle. The CLASP results were as follows: Grade 1 – Piobaireachd John Nevans Craig Turnbull Iain Kirkwood Con Houlihan Grade 2 – Piobaireachd Ben Hall William Wardrope Duncan Lamont Dagmar Pesta Dorothy Moodie Hector Thomson […]
The Loch Lomond Highland Games took place on Saturday, July 16, 2022. The CLASP results were as follows: GRADE 3 GRADE 2 GRADE 1 Piobaireachd1st Rebecca Morris2nd John Todd Piobaireachd1st William Wardrope2nd Donald Morrison3rd Christopher Yeo4th Hector Thomson5th Duncan Lamont Piobaireachd1st Craig Black2nd Craig Turnbull3rd John Nevans4th Con Houlihan March1st John […]
The Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association Northern Ireland Branch (RSPBANI) and Newry, Mourne and Down District Council are pleased to announce the launch of the Heart o’ Down Pipe Band Championships for 2022. This year’s event will be held in the familiar surroundings of Donard Park in Newcastle which played […]
The 179th Tomintoul Highland Games took place yesterday, July 16. It was a good day for playing with warm with light cloud cover. Twelve adults played, with eight in the junior Piobaireachd. There was a touching tribute paid to Patricia Grant who died last year. Patricia had been games secretary […]
by IAIN BOYD. The 157th Antigonish Highland Games were held on Saturday, July 9 and Sunday, July 10 under warm and sunny conditions. A large crowd attended both days following a two-year hiatus brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic. Nine pipe bands competed for the Nova Scotia Pipe Band Championships on […]
The instructors for the Balmoral School’s 2022 Summer Piping & Drumming Camp are performing in concert in Edinboro, Pennsylvania, this coming Sunday, July 17 at 2:00pm (EDT). If watching from the UK, the concert will begin at 7pm on Sunday evening. The concert will be live streamed on bagpiping.org here […]
The Northern Meeting Piping Competition, held at Eden Court in Inverness and renowned as one of the most prestigious piping competition in the world, will be live-streamed for the first time ever on Thursday, September 1 this year. Several of the events from world’s greatest non-invitational indoor solo piping competition […]
