GREY’S NOTES by Michael Grey Piping Today #66, 2013. Winning isn’t everything, but it beats anything in second place, said the American poet, William Cullen Bryant. Competing pipers and pipe bands might swear by Bryant’s words. The driven need to compete is firmly soldered very near the heart of the […]
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Opinions, assumptions and truths
GREY’S NOTES by Michael Grey Piping Today #65, 2013. Summertime and the livin’ is easy; fish are jumpin’ and the cotton is high. Great words; in fact, great lyrics from George and Ira Gershwin. And while it’s our standard holiday season, with weather that’s light on the back, summer isn’t […]
Flashbulb memories
GREY’S NOTES by Michael Grey Piping Today #64, 2013. It’s an uncomfortable truth that any sentence that starts with “One of my earliest memories…” will induce in any person — outside of maybe a Freudian psychoanalyst — a vacant stare, a droop of the eye lids and just enough open-mouthed […]
Two heads are better than one
GREY’S NOTES by Michael Grey Piping Today #63, 2013. It’s said that every day we each make thousands of decisions. Starting from the moment we wake up: do we get out of our chariots or roll over? And then: if we decide we want to eat, what’s for brekkie, what […]
Bearskin hats and pristine spats
GREY’S NOTES by Michael Grey Piping Today #62, 2013. I was at lunch with a work friend the other day when the subject came up: just how old is the general public’s idea of the stereotypical pipe band? You know, Scotland the Brave, Black Bear, Green Hills and yards and […]
Two heads are better than one
GREY’S NOTES by Michael Grey Piping Today #63, 2013. It’s said that every day we each make thousands of decisions. Starting from the moment we wake up: do we get out of our chariots or roll over? And then: if we decide we want to eat, what’s for brekkie, what […]
Gael Rutkowski
Gael Rutkowski of Duo Lagrange Rutkowski at Piping Live! 2013. Gael and his musical partner, Seb Lagrange, have been invited to the festival on a few occasions and their high-octane blend of traditional French dance music is a big favourite with Piping Live! audiences. The duo are pictured below with […]
The toddler’s marchpast…
At the World Pipe Band Championships 2013
Carlos Núñez
Carlos Núñez at Celtic Connections in 2013
Dàimh in concert
Dàimh at Celtic Connections 2013 with Angus MacKenzie on Highland pipes