Today’s member of the Competition League for Amateur Solo Pipers to be featured is Ted Hales who is originally from Santa Barbara in California. CLASP is the National Piping Centre’s circuit of graded solo piping competitions for adult amateur pipers. More information can be found on the CLASP website here. […]
Today’s member of the Competition League for Amateur Solo Pipers to be featured is Con Houlihan from North Cork in the famous Sliabh Luachra area of Ireland. CLASP is the National Piping Centre’s circuit of graded solo piping competitions for adult amateur pipers. More information can be found on the […]
By MARGARET HOULIHAN. This was the first CLASP ‘Live Online’ event for 2024. There was a particular interest for Grade 1 competitors as an invite to compete at the invitational CLASP Champion of Champions competition was up for grabs for the overall winner – more details here. Thank you to […]
The Competition for Amateur Solo Pipers offered three ‘Live Online’ competitions in February, May and November of 2023. These competitions are organised by Margaret Houlihan at The National Piping Centre in order to give amateur pipers across the world a chance to compete in the CLASP. The CLASP ‘Live Online’ […]
There was a good turn out for the first CLASP in-person competition of 2024 which was held today, Saturday, January 13. The judges were Sandy Cameron (Light Music) and Eireann Iannetta-MacKay. Overall winner Grade 1 – John Frater Overall winner Grade 2 – Donald Morrison Overall winner Grade 3 – Adam Aitchison […]
By MARGARET HOULIHAN. The most recent CLASP ‘Live Online’ competition took place on November 11, 2023, and Brady Webb was the Grade 1 Overall winner. Brady receives an invitation to compete in a new CLASP online competition called ‘The World Amateur Solo Piping Champion of Champions’, 2024. The new online […]
The 27th Annual George Sherriff Memorial Invitational will held on on Saturday, November 18 at St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church in Hamilton, Ontario. The competition is organised by the ubiquitous Bob Worrall, who is currently travelling to Scotland to judge at the 50th Glenfiddich Piping Championship this weekend. The George Sherriff Memorial […]
This CLASP competition will run on Saturday, November 11, 2023 via the Zoom platform. The closing date for this competition is Sunday, October 22 at midnight (UK Time). Events will be offered to adult amateur pipers graded 1, 2, 3, 4/5 and both Light Music and Piobaireachd events will be […]
What’s in a Tune is a series of YouTube videos presented by tutors and guest pipers from The National Piping Centre. The presenters share background stories on what the tunes mean to them, and technique on how the tune should be played. In the most recent video, Margaret Houlihan gives […]
The Competition League for Amateur Solo Pipers took place on Saturday, June 3, in The National Piping Centre at McPhater Street. The overall winner in Grade 1 was Theo Pratt; Grade 2, Donald Morrison; and Grade 3, James Acheson. The full results were as follows: Grade 1 – Piobaireachd Grade […]
