Tag: Pauline Mellor

Some memories of a ‘Penny-and-a-Piobaireachd’, 63 years on

Some memories of a ‘Penny-and-a-Piobaireachd’, 63 years on

The ‘penny-and-a-piobaireachd’ was the famous feu payment made by the College of Piping each summer for land at Boreraig on Skye, the ancestral home of the famous MacCrimmon piping dynasty. The background to what was for many years an annual event was given in the Piping Times of July 2016. […]