Double Gold Medallist, Niall Matheson has composed another excellent piobaireachd, this time in tribute to the 51st Highland Division. The tune comes a few months after we aired his tribute to the late Alasdair Gillies, with whom Niall served in The Queen’s Own Highlanders. Listen to Niall play the ground […]
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Aldershot 1939 and a famous regimental pipe band prepares for war
After our story yesterday about next month’s piping tribute to the soldiers captured at St Valèry-en-Caux in June 1940, several readers have reminded us about an article that appeared in the June 2002 edition of the Piping Times. The article included a photograph of the pipers of the 2nd Battalion […]
Skye Games / St Valéry tribute / 2020 Hall of Fame nominations
Skye Games will not take place this year. Cameron MacFadyen, Piping Convener, said: “It is with much regret that I have to advise that the decision has been taken very recently to cancel the 2020 Skye Games in view of the current emergency. “With the exception of the two World […]