The Solo Piping Judges Association (SPJA) held a well-attended annual general meeting online, Sunday October 16. The Association welcomed the return of live solo piping events during 2022 and observed that this had been a successful season despite the two-year hiatus effected by the Covid-19 Pandemic. Colin MacLellan, Euan Anderson and Roddy […]
Author, Richard H. Crawford from New York, USA has published a valuable record of the many pipers of Scottish and Irish regiments who were killed in the First World War. The book, Piper Casualties in the Great War, 1914-1918, is fascinating record, the result of a considerable amount of research. […]
Piobaireachd Dhuneideann – The Edinburgh Piobaireachd – was composed by Captain John MacLellan (1921-1991) in 1981 to mark the many piping occurrences which have taken place in Scotland’s capital city over the past couple of centuries. “At the beginning of the 19th century,” MacLellan wrote in the October 1981 edition […]
• From the February 2017 Piping Times By Brian D. Yates It is not often that an idea for a new and different kind of piping event unfolds, takes shape, and then – crucially – becomes a success but we are fortunate to have just such a one. The Captain […]
