It’s Hogmanay 2022, and this evening we look back ten years to photos from the Scottish Pipe Band Championships at Dumbarton on May 19, 2012. Field Marshal Montgomery won Grade 1, followed by ScottishPower, Inveraray, Strathclyde Police, St Laurence O’Toole and Boghall and Bathgate Caledonia. Glasgow Skye won Grade 2, […]
PHOTO OF THE WEEK: John Dew was the winner of the Scottish Pipers’ Association Former Winners’ MSR in The National Piping Centre Auditorium on Saturday, April 30, 2022. The other competitors were: William Geddes, Calum Brown, Darach Urquhart, Ben Duncan, Steven Leask and are all pictured below. The results were:1. […]
PHOTO OF THE WEEK: The PPBSO’s Board of Directors have approved the creation of perpetual trophies for their overall season winners, their “Championship Supreme” prize. The first trophy has been created, “The William Livingstone” claret jug, for the overall season-long champion in the performance of professional piobaireachd. Bill is pictured […]
PHOTO OF THE WEEK: A ball-juggling street entertainer captured the attention of the Robert Malcolm Memorial Pipe Band before their Buchanan Street performance at Piping Live! in 2017.
PHOTO OF THE WEEK: Kyle Warren and Field Marshal Montgomery celebrate their win at the World Pipe Band Championships in 2011. This win was part of a Grand Slam, with the band winning every major championship that season. Kyle recently launched a Crowdfunder campaign for his recording projects in 2022, […]
PHOTO OF THE WEEK: Stephen Creighton leads the St Laurence O’Toole drum corps at the Scottish Pipe Band Championships on May 21, 2011. The band placed first in drumming and second overall.
PHOTO OF THE WEEK: Ben Mulhearn took first place in the B Grade Piobaireachd, and was B Grade overall winner on piobaireachd preference, at the Duncan Johnstone Memorial 2022. All the results from the competition can be found here. More photos of the C Grade Jig competitors can be found […]
PHOTO OF THE WEEK: It’s only appropriate that we post these photos in the same week of Pipe Major Terry Tully announcing his retirement from the St Laurence O’Toole Pipe Band. I interviewed Terry for an article in Piping Today magazine in the Glennifer Hotel on the eve of the […]
PHOTO OF THE WEEK: Jim Kilpatrick leads the The House of Edgar Shotts and Dykehead drum corps at the Scottish Pipe Band Championships on May 22, 2010. The band placed third overall with a first in drumming.
PHOTO OF THE WEEK: Dumfries & Galloway Constabulary Pipe Band are led by Pipe Major Callum Watson into the Grade 2 arena at The Worlds in 2009. The band placed fourth at the Worlds that year, and they had a good season placing third at the Scottish, fourth at the […]
