Tag: Earl of Seaforth

The Uist and Barra competition in Glasgow’s Year of Culture

The Uist and Barra competition in Glasgow’s Year of Culture

On the eve of the Glasgow Uist and Barra Invitational 2023, we look back through the Piping Times archive to the report on the 1990 competition by Jeannie Campbell, and find this was the year that it became an ‘invitational’. It was a year that Glasgow presented it’s cleaned-up, modern, […]

Jack’s tribute to Jimmy / Boney line up / Balmoral band offer

Jack’s tribute to Jimmy / Boney line up / Balmoral band offer

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. […]