Jack Taylor today adds to the many tributes and memories of Jimmy McIntosh we have received since Jimmy’s passing earlier this week. Jimmy knew Jimmy for many years and, like, Jimmy, was a pupil of the Bobs of Balmoral. Jack writes: “Jimmy talked online to the Piobaireachd Society last summer. […]
Tag: Andrew Bonar
A judge’s ramblings – part 3
Another summer passed and some regrets at having to return home By Malcolm McRae The last day of August saw Dugald MacNeill and me judging the Piobaireachd event at the Scottish Pipers’ Association Competition at the College of Piping in Glasgow. The new recital auditorium is an ideal venue for […]
Colin Ross’ estate auction / Boney V / Metro Cup
The estate of the late Colin Ross is selling some of the late Northumbrian pipemaker’s pipes at an auction early next month. Colin, who lived in Whitley Bay in the north-east of England, died last May after a short illness. He was a major figure in the revival of bellows-blown […]
Diary: Boney Invitational/SPA/the ‘Piping Times’
Yesterday’s pictorial from the 2009 World Pipe Band Championships included a great photo of the late Andrew Bonar of Simon Fraser University Pipe Band. Andrew was a member of the Canadian band for many years. Before he died in 2017 at the age of 51, Andrew initiated an annual invitational […]
Pipe band retro pictorial: the Worlds 2009
In 2009 Simon Fraser University Pipe Band lifted the Grade 1 trophy for the sixth time. Grade 2 was won by Inveraray & District who won every Grade 2 major that season. Their win was seen as their final step, and almost a formality, before joining the Grade 1 ranks. […]