• PART 18 • BY JEANNIE CAMPBELL MBE. The news of a London Gathering appeared in the Northern Chronicle on Wednesday, December 28, 1910: “London Highland Athletic Club. The Highland Gathering at Stamford Bridge, London, held annually since the foundation of the Highland Athletic Club in 1893, was an event […]
The attention of the solo piping world will head south at the end of this week when the Scottish Piping Society of London hold the prestigious Bratach Gorm. The competition is on Friday, November 3 in the Caledonian Club in London, with other professional events and competitions for A, B […]
The overall winner of the prestigious Glenfiddich Piping Championship 2023 has been named as Callum Beaumont, as the event celebrates five decades of sensational piping. The prestigious Championship, which was first held in 1974, was founded by Sandy Grant Gordon of William Grant and Sons, and Seumas MacNeill who was […]
The 50th Glenfiddich Piping Championship took place today, October 28, 2023, and was won by Callum Beaumont for his first overall win of the title. Callum won the piobaireachd event in 2022 and it gave him the runner up prize, but this year his piobaireachd win seen him tie on […]
By GERARD McCLUMPHA, Event Coordinator. Is looking back always a good thing? I’m not 100% sure on that as a rule – but in the case of the past twenty years of the Festival of Juvenile Solo Piping competition I think we can safely say yes! It all started with the […]
The 50th Glenfiddich Piping Championship is only two days away on October 29, 2023, and one can only hope it matches or exceeds “the best one yet” accolade that Seumas MacNeill gave to the 1977 Championship in his Piping Times report. However, in Seumas’s report below the reader will find […]
The 27th Annual George Sherriff Memorial Invitational will held on on Saturday, November 18 at St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church in Hamilton, Ontario. The competition is organised by the ubiquitous Bob Worrall, who is currently travelling to Scotland to judge at the 50th Glenfiddich Piping Championship this weekend. The George Sherriff Memorial […]
The Festival of Juvenile Solo Piping Competition began life in St Andrew’s Academy, Saltcoats in 2003. It quickly became known as The Saltcoats Competition and over the years it attracted large numbers of top young pipers. Due to redevelopment of the Academy in Saltcoats the event moved to the neighbouring […]
By TIM CUMMINGS. Piping Today #93/94, 2018/19 Part 1 Since starting piano lessons at the age of six (now 38 years ago), I have enjoyed and been challenged by a decades-long stretch of both learning and teaching music in one-on-one, small-group workshop and classroom settings. Most of this music has […]
The Argyllshire Gathering Trust’s Lochnell Intermediate Piping Championship will take place tomorrow, Saturday, October 21. The venue is the chapel at Lochnell Castle, near Benderloch, PA37 1QT, by kind permission of the Earl of Dundonald and hosted by his son Lord Archie Cochran. The competition is by invitation only and […]
