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 […]
By Michael Grey Silver Chanter (August 7) The 55th MacCrimmon recital for the Silver Chanter was a fitting start to this year’s Piping Live! festival. With six pipers from among our very best, a well-lit stage and a breathing, drinking, honest-to-goodness live audience, festival organisers chose well. Of course, this […]
The eight young pipers through to the final of this year’s MacGregor Memorial Piobaireachd competition are: Bobby Allen, Chryston (Lament for the Viscount of Dundee) Alistair Bevan, Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada (The MacKay’s Banner) Callum Bevan, Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada (The MacLeod’s Salute) Hamish Drennan, Drumnadrochit (The Red Speckled Bull) […]
Piping Live! has well and truly kicked off. The 2021 festival opened in grand style on Saturday night with the 55th Silver Chanter invitational solo piping competition, which this year was awarded to Angus MacColl Snr. Sunday afternoon’s showcase by students on the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland pipng degree course […]
Tonight’s Piping Live! concert by the Lowland & Border Pipers’ Society (LBPS) is something of a milestone for the Society and for Scotland’s bellows-blown bagpipes in general. The LBPS was formed in the summer of 1981 and constituted formally two years later. Its aim was to revive Scotland’s bellow-blown lowland […]
Angus MacColl from Benderloch, Scotland was awarded the 2021 Silver Chanter tonight. This was the 55th year of the iconic competition. Angus was assigned the classic MacCrimmon tune, Lament for Mary MacLeod to play. He was last on. Held tonight at the National Piping Centre’s headquarters in McPhater Street, Glasgow, […]
“There were 40 entrants in the 2021 Aboyne Games online piping competitions, writes Dr. Jack Taylor. “This meant three heats for piobaireachd and two for light music. It was good to welcome guest judges Jack Lee, Bill Livingstone and Roddy S. MacDonald, and to have JonDon MacKenzie on the Aboyne […]
