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SUMMARY:Capt John A MacLellan Solo Piping Championships 2023
DESCRIPTION:•Pictured from left: Director of Army Bagpipe Music Maj Gordon Rowan MBE\, Ross Conner\, Cameron May\, Steven Gray\, Bobby Allen\, Jamie Elder\, Matt Wilson\, Stuart Liddell\, Sarah Muir\, John Dew\, Andrew Ferguson and Colin MacLellan in 2022. \nHeld at Inchdrewer House within Redford Barracks\, this event features some of the best solo pipers in the country\, with separate Piobaireachd and Light Music events in P\, A\, B and C grades and a Hornpipe & Jig contest open to all competitors. Spectators are very welcome.  \nThe 2022 results were:\n\nPremier Piobaireachd\n\n\n\n\nFinlay Johnston\nIain Speirs\nCallum Beaumont\nStuart Liddell\nGlenn Brown\n\n\n\n\nPremier MSR\n\n\n\n\nStuart Liddell\nCalum Beaumont\nIain Speirs\nGlenn Brown\nFinlay Johnston\n\n\n\n\nA Grade Piobaireachd\n\n\n\n\nSarah Muir\nSteven Leask\nCameron Macdougall\nInnes Smith\nAndrew Donlon\n\n\n\n\nA Grade MSR\n\n\n\n\nSteven Gray\nMatt Wilson\nGreig Canning\nAshley McMichael\nPeter Macgregor\n\n\n\n\nB Grade Piobaireachd\n\n\n\n\nJamie Elder\nJohn Dew\nBradley Parker\nBrodie Watson-Massey\nCallum Wynd\n\n\n\n\nB Grade MSR\n\n\n\n\nAndrew Ferguson\nRoss Miller\nCallum Wynd\nAngus Macphee\nAndrew Donlon\n\n\n\n\nC Grade Piobaireachd\n\n\n\n\nBobby Allen\nCameron May\nJames McPetrie\nChristopher McLeish\nBruce Erskine\n\n\n\n\nC Grade MSR\n\n\n\n\nRoss Conner\nBobby Allen\nRyan Cupples-Menendez\nCameron May\nJohn McElmurry\n\n\n\n\nOpen Hornpipe & Jig\n\n\n\n\nMatt Wilson\nBobby Allen\nSarah Muir\nStuart Liddell\nCalum Brown
URL:https://bagpipe.news/event/capt-john-a-maclellan-solo-piping-championships/
LOCATION:Army School of Piping\, Inchdrewer House\, 299 Colinton Road\, Edinburgh\, EH13 0LA\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Stirling Piping Recital with Fred Morrison and Chris Armstrong
DESCRIPTION:The Fred Morrison and Chris Armstrong recital is in the King Robert Hotel\, Bannockburn\, Stirling. The event is on Friday\, October 13\, 7.30pm and tickets are £10 and available on the door. \nThe Stirling Piping Recitals are organised by Craig Muirhead to bring the pipers of the Stirling area together and help create a local piping scene. This is the second event of 2023 with the February recital featuring Roddy MacLeod and Willie McCallum. \nThe venue is at King Robert Hotel\, Glasgow Road\, Stirling\, FK7 0LJ. T: 01786 811666 https://www.kingroberthotel.co.uk/
URL:https://bagpipe.news/event/stirling-piping-recital-with-fred-morrison-and-chris-armstrong/
LOCATION:King Robert Hotel\, Glasgow Road\, Stirling\, FK7 0LJ\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Malin Lewis and Mairearad Green piping in RETURN
DESCRIPTION:Return is a piece for four speaking voices\, a string quartet\, two pipers and two drummers. It’s an exploration into where long poem\, ritual theatre and ceremony meet. \nIt weaves together and layers up text\, music and performance as a celebration of the wheel of the year\, of emerging and receding\, and the common ground of death and renewal that unites us regardless and inclusive of all faiths and heritages. \nIt speaks of cycles and returns\, of seasons\, elements and the beyond human realms and rhythms; of expansion and contraction at our base and at our back that refuses the violence of fractured whiteness\, patriarchy and linear consumer capitalism. It is a meditation on the need to both mark and lose all track of time; how we inhabit the greater whole and have it be frame\, container and guidance. \nReturn will be performed in the round\, and by candlelight in Govan & Linthouse parish church\, over the full moon (occurring at 9.24pm) on Saturday October 28th 2023. \nThe venue is fully accessible. \nPerformance: 20.45- 22.00. (Doors: 20.30). \nTickets (please book below): £0-30. Pay what you can. \nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/return-tickets-707676598757 \nReturn platforms women\, non-binary and/or trans performers\, and will be accompanied by program notes about the concept and construction of linear clock time\, of timelessness\, of marking time and connection to place. \nPerformers: \nVoices: Jj Fadaka\, Lisa Fannen\, Babs Nicgriogair\, Susannah Stark.\nStrings: Elena Inei (violin)\, Una McGlone (double base)\, Simone Seales (cello)\, Semay Wu (cello).\nPipes: Mairearad Green\, Malin Lewis.\nDrums: Eilidh Graham\, Amy Redford. \nJj Fadaka (she/her) is a feminist writer and workshop facilitator living in Edinburgh. In a mix of non-fiction and storytelling\, she explores community\, feminism\, and love as a path to change. Jj’s workshops are based on black feminist radical traditions that allow us to imagine the world without barriers. Jj was featured as Poet in Residence for the 2023 StAnza International Poetry Festival. Her poetry zine ‘3 Days in Community’ is available from Lighthouse Books. \nLisa Fannen (she/her)\nLisa has been writing\, and sharing words solo and with musicians/ soundmakers\, in particular as part of a duo Claquer with Jer Reid. She published a poetry collection Faultline in 2018 and released it as a collaborative recording project in 2021. Lisa is also a bodyworker and activist concerned with dialogue and information exchange about health in the broadest sense of the term as part of movement for social justice.\nlisafannen.uk\ninthebody.uk \nBabs Nicgriogair (they/them)\nBabs Nicgriogair is a stornoweegie poetician\, a lover of hybrid and liminal spaces with a commitment to worker power\, community building and collective joy. \nSusannah Stark (she/her) is an artist and musician from Fife\, Scotland. Trained in printmaking\, her interest lies in exploring places – both internal and external – connected with experiences of faith and being in everyday life. She currently works with pop music as a medium to explore different dimensions of the human voice and manners of speech\, creating sparse sound collages orchestrated by voice\, field recordings\, trumpet and distorted percussion\, working often in collaboration with trumpet player Philip Cardwell and drummer Laurie Pitt (Golden Teacher). Her debut album ‘Time Together (Hues And Intensities)’ out on Stroom\, was described by Noel Gardner in The Quietus as “a seven-song serving of gossamer dub-pop experimentalism” and at a live show by Jude Browning in MAP Magazine as “music suspending weightlessness and opacity with the unfathomable facets of existence”.\nhttps://stroomtv.bandcamp.com/album/time-together-hues-and-intensities \nElena Inei (she/her)\nElena Inei is a violinist and improviser based in Glasgow. She is a member of the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra\, Collective Endeavours and The New Strings Collective. Elena also collaborates with Barrowland Ballet’s intergenerational dance company Wolf Pack\, and plays in various other project based formations. \nUna MacGlone (she/her)\nUna works across improvisation\, jazz\, traditional and classical genres. She also collaborates regularly with dancers\, actors and poets\, using improvisation as a key transdisciplinary process. Some career highlights include recording with a film soundtrack and two albums with David Byrne; touring with Savourna Stevenson; recording three albums\, touring and performing at two Celtic Connections festivals with Rab Noakes and playing at the Proms with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. As a founder member of Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra\, she has an important role in performing and leading on creative projects such as an innovative annual exploration of Gaelic culture and improvisation with Ceòl ‘s Craic\, a leading Gaelic Arts organisation. As well as these collaborations\, her own music has been commissioned for and played on BBC radio 3.\nA new album with Jim McEwan has just been released on Scatter:\nhttps://scatterarchive.bandcamp.com/album/sun-shadow \nSimone Seales (they/them)\nOriginally from Florida\, Simone Seales is a Glasgow-based cellist who completed their postgraduate studies at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in 2021. They focus on free improvisation\, both tonal and atonal\, and devising music for theatre.\nSimone is passionate about exploring sound\, how sound can reflect emotional states of being and how emotions are embodied. Their creative influences come from Black feminist leaders such as Audre Lorde\, Assata Shakur and bell hooks. Within Simone’s creative work\, they centre Blackness\, sexuality\, intersectional feminism and anti-racism. They believe Western Classical musicians are capable of making meaningful social change.\nsimoneseales.com \nSemay Wu (sē mā wo͞o) (she/her) works as a composer\, cellist/improviser\, and media/sound artist. Greatly influenced by improvisational frameworks\, Semay often uses interdisciplinary relationships to explore ideas of play\, through collaboration and spontaneity. Recent performances and recordings have developed as solo cello and electronics\, however\, Semay’s other works have found shape as video pieces\, performance/interactive-installations\, graphic scores\, as well as creating an online audio cookbook for Manchester’s communities. \nsemaywu.com \nMairearad Green (she/her)\nHaving grown up in the West Coast Coigach peninsula of the Scottish Highlands – an area steeped in culture and local traditions – Mairearad was introduced to folk music at an early age. Renowned for her deft and lyrical accordion style\, as well as her dextrous piping\, Mairearad is in great demand as a performer and composer. Many of her compositions are well known in the Scottish music scene. Among the favourites are ‘Maggie West’s Waltz’ and ‘Dram Behind the Curtain’. As a visual artist also\, Mairearad’s work can be described as impressionistic\, and a visceral response to the landscape she is so familiar. Her latest limited-edition vinyl release ‘Hearth’ seamlessly combines Mairearad’s two passions – art and music.\nmairearadgreen.co.uk \nMalin Lewis (they/them)\nMalin is a queer multi-instrumentalist inspired by humans\, queerness and the universe. One of Scotland’s most exciting creators\, Malin melds tradition with innovation on a unique newly invented\, self-made bagpipe. Malin’s long awaited debut album Halocline\, is named for the layer between salt and fresh water. Halocline is a sequence of compositions reflecting on the liminal spaces between Malin’s outer and inner worlds as a trans person. Recently Malin has been touring the UK with Making Tracks international Residency\, Recording film music in Berlin\, studying folk music in Helsinki and learning the tradition of the extinct Finnish Bagpipes as well as writing and performing music for theatre and contemporary dance.’\nmalinmakesmusic.com \nEilidh Graham (she/her) works in community cycling and community arts. Supporting people to take part in wellbeing and creative activities such as group percussion sessions\, craft sessions from a cargo bike\, group bike rides to explore nature\, connect with people and services in the community. She has played in a Glasgow Samba Band for 15 years\, and she cycles everywhere on her colourful bicycle! \nAmy Redford (she/her)\nAmy settled for a guitar at 16 because despite 4 years of pestering up until then\, they just wouldn’t get her a drum kit. She’s been hitting guitars increasingly harder ever since. She finally realised the drumming dream when she joined SheBoom in 2009\, where she now teaches and leads that drumming ensemble. On guitar\, she’s currently co-fronting Sequence 369 and busting out riffs with They Theory. Previous acts include Electric Ladygarden\, Blood Of The Bull\, Touch And Go\, and Stotally Toned. Amy is a nihilistic malcontent with a fair amount of existential dread\, which is expressed in her riffs\, solos\, and frenetic drumming.
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SUMMARY:Adults Gathering autumn school
DESCRIPTION:Join the NPC Adult Gatherings in 2023\nThe National Piping Centre is bringing you a series of Adult Gatherings in 2023 for pipers aged 18+\, which have been designed to give a fantastic social learning experience. This year we will be running in person workshops  as well as online events. \nThe dates for our 2023 schools are: Autumn Adult Gathering: 30 October-2 November \nOur schools will run in two timezones\, one for in person teaching and one for online students. The in-person school will run during the day UK time (9am – 5pm UK time)\, with the online school running in the evenings (3pm – 9pm UK time). There will be no option for online learning during the day\, or in person learning in the evening. For the online schools to run in 2023\, we require a min of 6 students to register. Teachers for each school will be announced ahead of the event. \nThe school costs £275 in person and £240 online for the four days. \nWe have a new booking system for purchasing lessons. Once you have paid for your Adult Gathering place\, you will be sent an email with a form to give us more information about your playing level. Please complete this as soon as possible.. If you have a gathering booked and would like to look at your account\, please click Customer Account below\, and you can login from there. \nBOOK ADULT GATHERING   CUSTOMER ACCOUNT \nWhere will we meet?\nThe in person schools will take place at one of the two National Piping Centre locations in Glasgow City Centre or West End. This will be confirmed nearer the time of your school. For our online schools\, you will join us on Zoom each day for your day of tuition! Once you have registered\, we will be in touch with more information about the school and how you can log in each day. \nWhat will I learn?\nOver the four days there will be group lessons\, 1-2-1 tuition\, Masterclass workshops and more for pipers. Each piping student will be provided with a digital music pack so everyone will have new music to learn. \nWhat will the school cost?\nIt is £275 GBP to register for a place on one of our  in person schools and £240 GBP for an online school. Registrations will open shortly. \nWhat will my timetable look like?\nWe are just finalising the exact timetable and will update this soon\, but you can expect 1-2-1 lessons\, practice time\, masterclasses\, workshops\, new music and more. These will be similar for in person and online tuition. \nWho will be teaching me?\n \nEach school will have a different teaching line up\, from our world-class professional pipers. \nThe teachers for the upcoming Summer Adult Gathering will be: \nAndrew Bova\, John Mulhearn\, Ailis Sutherland and Dan Nevans \nIs It for me?\nIf you are still unsure about if it is right for you\, we asked attendees at our recent school to tell us about their experiences and here is what they had to say: \n” Thoroughly recommend attending an adult gathering at least once in your lifetime\, I’ve done it twice and it resulted both times in a positive step change in my piping.\nWorld class instructors\, fantastic location\, and an easy and open way of teaching” – Attended in person in Winter 2023 \n“I found the whole Gathering experience absolutely brilliant\, being able to attend in person\, the staff and guest tutors were so down to earth and approachable\, all being World famous Superstar Pipers. Everyone of them brought fountains of knowledge\, new techniques for us to consider for our level of piping\, and all where so passionate about piping\, that most lessons ran over\, which is so infectious. I’ve attended one or two Gatherings before\, all of which were well worth doing\, but this has to be the best todate. I’ve come away with renewed enthusiasm for my piping. I’ve always said\, if the NPC says this is how to do it\, no one can argue with that. I’ve had an amazing time\, met some old friends and made new ones\, will be booking for Spring 23. ” – Attended in person in Spring 2022 \nBOOK ADULT GATHERING   CUSTOMER ACCOUNT \nHearing Protection\nThe National Piping Centre requires all students to use hearing protection at all times when playing pipes. Hearing protection is available for purchase in our shop or free of charge from the earplug dispenser in both our piping school venues.\nFind out more
URL:https://bagpipe.news/event/adults-gathering-autumn-school/
LOCATION:The National Piping Centre
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