The Competition League for Amateur Solo Pipers took place on Saturday, June 3, in The National Piping Centre at McPhater Street. The overall winner in Grade 1 was Theo Pratt; Grade 2, Donald Morrison; and Grade 3, James Acheson. The full results were as follows: Grade 1 – Piobaireachd Grade […]
The World Amateur Champion of Champions Solo Piping Competition will be held on 27th April 2024 The Competition League for Amateur Solo Pipers (The CLASP) was set up by The National Piping Centre in 2003 to give adult amateur pipers a competition platform to compete on, through a series of […]
By MARGARET HOULIHAN. This was another well attended ‘Live Online’ CLASP competition. For Grade 1 CLASP competitors, there was one final chance to win an invite to compete at the inaugural amateur invitational competition at The Sun Belt in Florida in November this year. Eric Stein, who runs the Sun […]
The Competition League for Amateur Solo Pipers took place today, March 25, in The National Piping Centre at McPhater Street. The overall winner in Grade 1 was Marc Warnock; Grade 2, Donald Morrison; and Grade 3, James Acheson. The full results were as follows: Grade 1 Piobaireachd March Strathspey and […]
This was the first CLASP ‘Live Online’ event for 2023. There was a particular interest for Grade 1 competitors, as an invite to compete at the inaugural amateur invitational at The Sun Belt in Florida in November 2023 was up for grabs. Eric Stein, who runs the Sun Belt Professional […]
The first CLASP in-person competition of the year took place today, January 14, at The National Piping Centre’s Otago Street venue in Glasgow’s west end. The full results were as follows: Overall Winners Grade 1 – Eddie BolandGrade 2 – Jamie GallagherGrade 3 – Grant Walker Grade 1 Piobaireachd March […]
The first CLASP competition of 2023 will be an in-person event held at The National Piping Centre’s West End venue at Otago Street, on Saturday January 14. This competition is for adult amateur pipers in Grades 1, 2 and 3 with the option for Grade 4 members to play up […]
The CLASP workshop weekend will take place both in-person and remotely using the Zoom platform on Friday 7 and Saturday 8, October. Instructors confirmed to date are John Wilson, John Mulhearn, Wilson Brown, Ailis Sutherland, Connor Sinclair, Margaret Dunn and Andrew Bova. Registrations Open until Wednesday 28th September 2022 (Midnight UK […]
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 […]
The Loch Lomond Highland Games took place on Saturday, July 16, 2022. The CLASP results were as follows: GRADE 3 GRADE 2 GRADE 1 Piobaireachd1st Rebecca Morris2nd John Todd Piobaireachd1st William Wardrope2nd Donald Morrison3rd Christopher Yeo4th Hector Thomson5th Duncan Lamont Piobaireachd1st Craig Black2nd Craig Turnbull3rd John Nevans4th Con Houlihan March1st John […]
