Tag: Pipe Major Evan MacRae

Michael Grey’s Notes: Piping in later life – no excuses

Michael Grey’s Notes: Piping in later life – no excuses

GREY’S NOTES by Michael Grey. Piping Today #74, 2015. My Dad always said that life moves forward at a pace in tandem with a person’s age.  So when you’re 10, life seems to move along at a grindingly slow 10mph. At 10 a kid feels like it’ll take forever for […]

Ninety years old and still piping strong

Ninety years old and still piping strong

Jackie Bogan is now a young 90-year-old, and still playing regularly with the Northampton Pipe Band.  Chatting with him was like catching a glimpse of history, with names of piping legends and a time when life was very different to the one we live today. Born in Greenock in 1931, […]