Tag: James Beaton

The Glasgow Highland Club’s schools competitions for 2023

The Glasgow Highland Club’s schools competitions for 2023

The Glasgow Highland Club’s Annual Competitions for schools pipe bands and individual pipers and drummers will take place at Hutchesons’ Grammar School, G41 4NW on Sunday, March 26, 2023. The application form can be downloaded here, and should be sent to organiser, James Beaton, no later than March 5, 2023.  […]

Vintage prizes donated / Mòd on the march to Perth / Fraser Fifield recording

Vintage prizes donated / Mòd on the march to Perth / Fraser Fifield recording

Two interesting prizes awarded to two brothers at Victorian-era Northern Meetings have been donated to the trustees of the Inverness-based piping competition. The prizes are snuff mills, one presented to Duncan Ross for the “third best performance on the Great Highland Bagpipes” at the 1862 Northern Meeting, and the other […]

Jimmy McIntosh, 1925-2021

Jimmy McIntosh, 1925-2021

James Haddow McIntosh, a true piping legend, died suddently this morning at home in South Carolina, USA, aged 95. Born in Broughty Ferry, near Dundee, one of four siblings. Jimmy’s father had arranged for Jimmy to receive his early piping tuition from Pipe Major Tom Sutherland, Royal Scots Fusiliers. Jimmy […]

Scotland’s youngest Suffragette to be commemorated

Scotland’s youngest Suffragette to be commemorated

A plaque is to be unveiled in Edinburgh tomorrow [Thursday] by Scotland’s First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon to commemorate Elizabeth (Bessie) Watson, the young piper who was Scotland’s youngest Suffragette. The ceremony will take place at The Edinburgh City Youth Cafe at 11-15 Vennel near the city centre. The building is […]