We are two weeks away from the Fred Morrison and Chris Armstrong recital in the King Robert Hotel, Bannockburn, Stirling. The event is on Friday, October 13, 7.30pm and tickets are £10 and available on the door. The Stirling Piping Recitals are organised by Craig Muirhead to bring the pipers […]
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Piping Live! Thursday highlights 2023
Stuart Liddell was the winner of the Pipe Major Alasdair Gillies Memorial Recital for 2023. Stuart played first and his piping and entertaining showmanship received a rapturous response from the large audience. Earlier in the evening, 15-year-old Cameron Bonar from Canada won the final of Pipe Idol receiving a set […]
Solo piping results from the Skye Gathering
Fred Morrison was the winner of the Dunvegan Medal at the Skye Gathering, held on August 8 and 9 in Portree. There was initially a tie for the overall winner prize between Fred and Ben Duncan, but it was settled by the rule book which states that Piobaireachd weighting is […]
Solo piping results from Arisaig Highland Games
The Arisaig Highland Games took place yesterday, Wednesday, July 26 at Traigh Farm, Arisaig. There was a field of 18 senior pipers and six juniors. The piobeareachd was judged by Archie MacLean and the light music was judged by PM Iain MacFadyen. Fred Morrison won the Arisaig Challenge cup for […]
History of the Argyllshire Gathering: the 1986 competition
• PART 51 • BY JEANNIE CAMPBELL MBE. The Argyllshire Gathering saw another year of change in 1986. Numbers had got out of hand, so in order to accommodate everyone the Gathering was extended to three days. Silver Medal The set tunes for the Silver Medal were Castle Menzies, Clan […]
One week to go to enter Pipe Idol 2023
Pipe Idol is a flagship event of the Piping Live! festival and has been very popular with the Street Cafe audience for many years. The photos below show it started life as a busking event on the streets of Glasgow for young pipers in 2004, but it has become one […]
See Fred Morrison at the Glenfiddich on YouTube
The National Piping Centre are drip feeding top quality YouTube content from their live stream archives from the Glenfiddich and Piping Live! festival. Today they uploaded Fred Morrison’s piobaireach, The End of the Great Bridge, from the 2022 competition. You can subscribe to the YouTube channel by following this link https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZ_PyEhUNchg2gfW3nVva0A/videos and […]
Winter Storm concert free to view on Facebook
The Winter Storm weekend came to a conclusion on Saturday, January 14, with a spectacular concert line-up of top class piping and drumming performers. The concert programme lists them as: Alastair Lee; Roddy MacLeod; Callum Beaumont; Dollar Academy Pipe Band; Craig Muirhead; Matt MacIsaac; Stephen Creighton; Jake Jørgensen; Reid Maxwell; […]
Solo piping results from London and the Bratach Gorm
The Scottish Piping Society of London have announced this evening that Bruce Gandy is the 2022 winner of the Bratach Gorm and Fred Morrison is the overall winner. The full results are as follows: An Bratach Gorm Bruce Gandy (The Unjust Incarceration) Iain Speirs (Colin Roy Mackenzie’s Lament) Alan Bevan […]
Tickets available for the Glenfiddich Piping Championship on October 29
Ten of the world’s greatest solo pipers will compete in this year’s Glenfiddich Piping Championship, as the renowned competition returns to the spectacular Blair Castle on Saturday, October 29. Competing this year are defending champion Jack Lee, Dollar’s Callum Beaumont, Glasgow-based Canadian piper Glenn Brown, Jamie Forrester from London, Canadian […]