Today’s member of the Competition League for Amateur Solo Pipers to be featured is Ted Hales who is originally from Santa Barbara in California. CLASP is the National Piping Centre’s circuit of graded solo piping competitions for adult amateur pipers. More information can be found on the CLASP website here. […]
The second CLASP in-person competition of 2024 was held today, Saturday, March 2 at the National Piping Centre. The judges were Emmet Conway (Light music) and Jonathan Greenlees (Piobaireachd). Overall winner Grade 1 – John Frater Overall winner Grade 2 – John Nevans Overall winner Grade 3 – Kathryn McEwan Grade 1 […]
Today’s member of the Competition League for Amateur Solo Pipers to be featured is Con Houlihan from North Cork in the famous Sliabh Luachra area of Ireland. CLASP is the National Piping Centre’s circuit of graded solo piping competitions for adult amateur pipers. More information can be found on the […]
The Competition for Amateur Solo Pipers offered three ‘Live Online’ competitions in February, May and November of 2023. These competitions are organised by Margaret Houlihan at The National Piping Centre in order to give amateur pipers across the world a chance to compete in the CLASP. The CLASP ‘Live Online’ […]
There was a good turn out for the first CLASP in-person competition of 2024 which was held today, Saturday, January 13. The judges were Sandy Cameron (Light Music) and Eireann Iannetta-MacKay. Overall winner Grade 1 – John Frater Overall winner Grade 2 – Donald Morrison Overall winner Grade 3 – Adam Aitchison […]
By MARGARET HOULIHAN. The most recent CLASP ‘Live Online’ competition took place on November 11, 2023, and Brady Webb was the Grade 1 Overall winner. Brady receives an invitation to compete in a new CLASP online competition called ‘The World Amateur Solo Piping Champion of Champions’, 2024. The new online […]
This CLASP competition will run on Saturday, November 11, 2023 via the Zoom platform. The closing date for this competition is Sunday, October 22 at midnight (UK Time). Events will be offered to adult amateur pipers graded 1, 2, 3, 4/5 and both Light Music and Piobaireachd events will be […]
The Grade 3/4 World Amateur Solo Piping Competitions took place on Thursday, August 15 at Piping Live! 2023, held in the NPC’s Otago Street Venue. The overall winner was Kathryn McEwan and the full results were as follows: Piobaireachd 2/4 March Strathspey & Reel Jig
Next Wednesday at Piping Live! is another day of wall to wall pipe music with something to suit every taste. There are five pipe band performances on Buchanan Street, including the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo Pipes & Drums visiting Glasgow for the day, and a Grade 1 pipe band practice […]
The Competition League for Amateur Solo Pipers have had three competitions in July at Luss Highland Gathering, Rosneath in Victoria Halls, and most recently at Inveraray Highland Games on Tuesday July 18. Luss Highland Games Grade 1 – Piobaireachd Grade 2 – Piobaireachd Grade 3 – Piobaireachd Grade 1 – […]
