Tag: Luke Kennedy

Solo piping results from Aberdeen Highland Games 2023

Solo piping results from Aberdeen Highland Games 2023

Thanks to Dr Jack Taylor for his solo piping results, report and photos from the Aberdeen Highland Games, held at Hazelhead Park yesterday, Sunday, June 18. It was an almost perfect day for pipes at Aberdeen’s Hazelhead Park – warm with light cloud cover.  19 seniors and 10 juniors played, […]

One week to go to enter Pipe Idol 2023

One week to go to enter Pipe Idol 2023

Pipe Idol is a flagship event of the Piping Live! festival and has been very popular with the Street Cafe audience for many years. The photos below show it started life as a busking event on the streets of Glasgow for young pipers in 2004, but it has become one […]

Pipe Idol returns for Piping Live! 2023 – entries now open 

Pipe Idol returns for Piping Live! 2023 – entries now open 

Piping Live!’s prestigious international Under 21 competition Pipe Idol is back for 2023, and applications are now open. With four heats through the week of the festival from Monday 14th – Thursday 17th August, and a final later on Thursday, this is a great opportunity for young solo players from […]

Results from the Lochnell Intermediate Youth Piping Championship 2022

Results from the Lochnell Intermediate Youth Piping Championship 2022

The Lochnell Intermediate Youth Piping Championship took place yesterday, October 22, at Lochnell Castle in Benderloch, Argyll. The competitors were seven of Scotland’s finest pipers under the age of twenty-two: Ruairidh Brown, Andrew Ferguson, Luke Kennedy, Gregor MacDonald, Angus MacPhee, Cameron May and Brodie Watson-Massey. The competition is run by […]

Piping Live! Thursday highlights 2022

Piping Live! Thursday highlights 2022

Matt MacIsaac from Cape Breton has been prominent at Piping Live! 2022 as a performer in a Lunchtime Recital, a presenter of a Learn @ Live workshop and around the venues as a spectator. Last night he capped off his busy and enjoyable week by winning the Pipe Major Alasdair […]

Kyle Shead in the Duncan Johnstone 2022 C Grade Jig competition

Faces from the Duncan Johnstone 2022

These photos are some of the pipers from the Duncan Johnstone Memorial C Grade Jig competition in The National Piping Centre Auditorium on Saturday, March 12. Kyle Shead won the C Grade Jig and the new trophy – The Roddy MacLeod Trophy for Jig Playing.  This was the first year […]

All the prizewinners earlier today.

Results: Scots Guards Juniors

The Scots Guards Association Junior Solo Piping Competition took place today at the Army School at Inchdrewer House, Edinburgh. The results were: Under 15Ceòl Mòr – 1. Kyle Cameron; 2. Lewis Maxwell; 3. Fraser Hamilton; 4. Ryan McCreadie.March – 1. Fraser Hamilton; 2. Ryan McCreadie; 3. Curran Stainthorpe; 4. Ewan […]