Tag: George Lumsden

History of the Argyllshire Gathering part 38

History of the Argyllshire Gathering part 38

1973 By Jeannie Campbell MBE In September 1972, under the headline ‘Girl Pipers to Breach Male Stronghold’, The Press and Journal had this: “Two girls will challenge a men-only bastion when they enter one of the top piping competitions at the National Mòd in Inverness on October 7. And the […]

Piping societies in the modern era – Part 2, the RSPS

Piping societies in the modern era – Part 2, the RSPS

In the second part of the 2017 College of Piping Lecture, ALAN FORBES talked about the Royal Scottish Pipers’ Society. At the start of Alan’s presentation, the audience was treated to a performance of Roddy Campbell’s Royal Scottish Pipers’ Society by Andrew Frater, Robert Frater and John Frater. The Scottish […]

‘I was a misfit for a couple of years’

‘I was a misfit for a couple of years’

Today, we take a peek into The National Piping Centre’s ‘Noting the Tradition’ project. For readers unfamiliar with this project, it is an on-going venture which undertakes oral history interviews with those luminaries that have been involved in piping at all levels and all over Scotland in the past 50 […]