The World Solo Amateur Piping Competition at Piping Live! marks the start of the new CLASP season and the festival is when the previous years’ winners get presented with their clasps in the Piping Live! Street Cafe. Yesterday, August 11, Daniel Johnstone and Ben Hall were on hand to receive […]
Matt MacIsaac from Cape Breton has been prominent at Piping Live! 2022 as a performer in a Lunchtime Recital, a presenter of a Learn @ Live workshop and around the venues as a spectator. Last night he capped off his busy and enjoyable week by winning the Pipe Major Alasdair […]
The CLASP Grade 1 World Amateur Solo Piping Competition took place at St Aloysius Convent Chapel on August 11 as part of Piping Live! 2022. The competition was judged by Willie Morrison. The results were as follows: Grade 1 Overall Winner – Daniel Johnstone Piobaireachd Con Houlihan Daniel Johnstone Ben […]
The sun is shining, the music is magical, the Piping Live! Street Cafe is packed, Glasgow looks great and yesterday it felt like the piping world came to The National Piping Centre to make up for lost time.
The CLASP Grade 2 World Amateur Solo Piping Competitions took place at St Aloysius Convent Chapel on August 10 as part of Piping Live! 2022. The results were as follows: Grade 2 Overall Winner – Alisdair Beaton Piobaireachd Donald Morrison Dorothy Moodie Laura McEwan 2/4 March John Nevans Alisdair Beaton […]
The reviews have yet to be written, but judging for the reaction of the packed out audience, last night’s concert from Inveraray & District Pipe Band, A Night In That Land, will go down as one of the classic pre-Worlds concerts. Photos: JohnSlavin@designfolk.com/Bagpipe.news
The CLASP Grade 3 and 4 World Amateur Solo Piping Competitions took place at St Aloysius Convent Chapel on August 9 as part of Piping Live! 2022. The results were as follows: Grade 4 Overall Winner – Sheila Stewart Grade 4 – Piobaireachd Ground and Next Variation 1st Sheila Stewart 2nd Sue […]
Piping Live! (and Glasgow) is really heating up this week as more and more familiar faces return to the festival and fill the Street Cafe and other venues with fantastic music, patter and laughs, and sample the craft beer on offer from Drygate Brewery. ScottishPower Pipe Band won the International […]
Callum Beaumont was the winner of the Masters Solo Piping Competition on Monday, August 8 at Piping Live! 2022, winning on a piobaireachd preference. The full results were: Piobaireachd Callum Beaumont, Lament for Patrick Og MacCrimmon Glenn Brown, Laird of Anapool’s Lament Alan Bevan, Cherede Darievea Ian K. MacDonald, Lament for Donald Ban MacCrimmon […]
Looking forward one week, to next Sunday morning, and at that point we will have experienced the full week of Piping Live! and the two days of World Pipe Band Championships. That is a nice thought, considering the world in which we all lived through since March 2020. The Piping […]
