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Piping Live! Friday highlights 2023

Piping Live! Friday highlights 2023

The majority of the piping world had their eyes on the Grade 1 competition at Glasgow Green on Friday, August 18, and would have missed the public debut of the music of Magnus and Flora Stone from the US. The audience in the Street Cafe were treated to new music […]

Piping Live! Thursday highlights 2023

Piping Live! Thursday highlights 2023

Stuart Liddell was the winner of the Pipe Major Alasdair Gillies Memorial Recital for 2023. Stuart played first and his piping and entertaining showmanship received a rapturous response from the large audience. Earlier in the evening, 15-year-old Cameron Bonar from Canada won the final of Pipe Idol receiving a set […]

Piping Live! Wednesday highlights 2023

Piping Live! Wednesday highlights 2023

A special limited edition tune book was launched yesterday at Piping Live! The National Piping Centre have marked their 25th anniversary by publishing a beautiful, hard bound book containing compositions from pipers who have had connections to the Centre over the last 25 years. There are only 250 copies of […]

CLASP Grade 1 and 2 solo piping results from Piping Live!

CLASP Grade 1 and 2 solo piping results from Piping Live!

The World Amateur Solo Piping Competitions have taken place on Tuesday and Wednesday at Piping Live! 2023, held in the NPC’s Otago Street Venue. Jean-Sébastien Gamache from Canada was the overall winner of Grade 1, which earns him a place in the CLASP Champion of Champions competition in 2024. Sarah […]

Piping Live! Tuesday highlights 2023

Piping Live! Tuesday highlights 2023

Busy, busy, busy – or packed out – seemed to be the recurring theme at every Piping Live! venue yesterday. Whether in the bustling Street Cafe, the NPC auditorium, or the sold-out Strathclyde suite, the audiences were out supporting and enjoying the live music.

Piping Live! Monday highlights 2023

Piping Live! Monday highlights 2023

Bruce Gandy was the winner of the Masters Solo Piping Competition on Monday, August 14 at Piping Live! 2023, winning on a piobaireachd preference. The win gives Bruce Gandy a place in this year’s Glenfiddich Piping Championship, and Alasdair Henderson wins the invite with flights and accommodation to the Sunbelt Invitational in […]

What’s on at Piping Live! Sunday, August 20

What’s on at Piping Live! Sunday, August 20

Sunday, August 20 is the day after the World Pipe Band Championships – but the piping doesn’t stop. The Gordon Duncan Memorial Piping Competition takes place on Sunday afternoon, then we have a trad music session with Tarran in Waxy O’Connors in the early evening, which fills the time nicely […]

Pipe Band results from North Berwick Highland Games

Pipe Band results from North Berwick Highland Games

The North Berwick Highland games took place yesterday, August 12, and it had a strong turn out of bands with just one week to go till the World Pipe Band Championships. The Grade 1 events were shared between Inveraray & District and Peoples Ford Boghall & Bathgate Caledonia, but Inveraray […]

Solo piping results from the Abernethy Highland Games

Solo piping results from the Abernethy Highland Games

by PETE GRANT, Piping Convenor. The Abernethy Highland Games took place at Nethy Bridge yesterday, August 12. This year we were delighted to welcome back Duncan Watson and Dr. Jack Taylor as our adjudicating team in the Senior competition, and to welcome Lewis Barclay to judge our Juniors for the […]

What’s on at Piping Live! Monday, August 14

What’s on at Piping Live! Monday, August 14

Piping Live! is set to commence in on Monday. If you’re planning to be there for the entire week, get ready for an intense musical experience. The schedule for Monday is jam-packed: featuring world-class solo piping in the Masters competition, a seven-hour-long music extravaganza at the Piping Live! Street Cafe, […]