The very first Piping Times Annual is anticipated to be on sale from the end of this month. Currently, the publication – at a whopping 154 pages – is being printed and bound. A spokesman for the National Piping Centre (NPC) estimated the on sale date as being “possibly the […]
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Stuart Letford: Echoes of Oban
Day 1The drive from my home in central Perthshire was sublime. By the time I reached Killin, the morning mist cleared and the sun shone brightly. There was not one cloud in the sky. I stopped briefly at the Green Welly Shop in Tyndrum, the quintessential ‘tea and a pee’ […]
One foot in front of the other …
DAN NEVANS relates last week’s in-person competitions at Oban and Lochaber from the perspective of a competing piper I’ve never really been one for vacations. I’m just not good at relaxing. I always feel like the sands of my own personal hourglass increase their irreversible passage as soon as I […]
Silver Chanter / Argyllshire Gathering composing contest / Worlds’ Medley format / Armagh Pipers’ Club
A week on Saturday – August 8 – the 54th annual Silver Chanter competition will take place. The invited pipers are Sarah Muir, Fred Morrison, Callum Beaumont, Stuart Liddell, Connor Sinclair, and Iain Speirs. Murray Henderson is the judge and James Beaton is on fear an tighe duties. As we […]