The North Berwick Highland games took place yesterday, August 12, and it had a strong turn out of bands with just one week to go till the World Pipe Band Championships. The Grade 1 events were shared between Inveraray & District and Peoples Ford Boghall & Bathgate Caledonia, but Inveraray […]
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RSPBA amendment to Grade 1 drumming result from Scottish Pipe Band Championships
The RSPBA have issued a statement this morning regarding a mix up in the Grade 1 Best Drumming Prize at the Scottish Pipe Band Championships on Saturday, July 29. The prize was given to Field Marshal Montgomery on the day, but it has now been awarded to Inveraray and District […]
Pipe Band results from Dunbar, Banchory and Gourock
The pipe band season returned to Scotland over the weekend of May 13 and 14 at Banchory, Dunbar and Gourock. The full results are as follows: Dunbar Pipe Band Championships, May 13, 2023 Grade 1 Grade 2 Drums: City of Edinburgh Grade 3 Drums: City of Newcastle Juvenile Novice Juvenile […]
Forres a jolly good fellow
The Europeans, 2019: a pictorial
Today, around 100 pipe bands should have been making their way to Bught Park in Inverness for the 2020 European Pipe Championships. Regrettably, the Covid-19 panemic has put paid to that – as well as to the whole 2020 competition season. Bught Park has held many pipe band and solo […]
Iain MacInnes reviews Chris Gray’s eponymous CD
Iain MacInnes reviews Chris Gray’s debut recording. As Scotland’s pipers explore ever wider musical horizons, this beautifully-made debut CD from Chris Gray points the way to what can be achieved. Gray comes with an impressive piping pedigree (he was a pupil of Tony MacDonald’s in his native Lockerbie), as well […]
Inveraray in 2009
That was 2019 – and Happy New Year to you!
By Stuart Letford (for bagpipe.news) I don’t know about you but that was a quick year. It does not seem like nearly a year since I sat in The Mackintosh Church in Maryhill, Glasgow to enjoy the ‘Seinn Air A ‘Phiob’ show held during Celtic Connections. All too soon, the […]
Waiting in the wings
Inveraray & District Pipe Band at Celtic Connections 2010