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 […]
Tag: Inveraray & District
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