Sandy Cameron beat Christopher McLeish in the third heat of the Scots Guards Club Knockout competition yesterday, January 28. He joins the winners of the first and second heats, Angus J. MacColl and Brodie Watson Massey, in the semi-finals. The draw for the semis will follow the fourth heat which […]
Sandy Cameron and Christopher McLeish will compete in the third heat of the Scots Guards Club Knockout competition on Sunday, January 28, with a 4pm start. The pipers are required to perform a set lasting 30 minutes. The set needs to contain one March, Strathspey and Reel and the ground […]
By JEANNIE CAMPBELL MBE • PART 5 • Nov/Dec 1923 On November 17th the Oban Times reported: “Noted Piper. There died in the Belford Hospital Fort William last week, Mr Alexander Cameron, an authority on pipe music, and himself a talented executants on the bagpipe. A Ross-shire man, he was for […]
Brodie Watson Massey beat Angus Macphee in the second heat of the Scots Guards Club Knockout competition on Sunday, November 26. He joins the winner of the first heat, and defending champion Angus J. MacColl, in the semi-final hat which will be drawn after the fourth heat on February 25. […]
The photo above is somewhat misleading as it was a wet day yesterday in Oban, August 24, for the Argyllshire Gathering 2023. The weather wasn’t kind to the pipers in the light music competitions out in the fresh air of Mossfield Park. However the rain didn’t stop young Cameron Bonar, […]
[post updated with photo] Sandy Cameron from Roy Bridge in Lochaber, Scotland was the overall winner at the Atholl Gathering, held today in dull weather conditions in the grounds of Blair Castle. Sandy, pictured, placed second in the A Grade Ceòl Mòr, fifth in the MSR and third in the […]
By Bridget MacKenzie This article is based to a large extent on material kindly supplied by George Moss’s nephew, Jim (Hamish) Hamilton, Aberdeen, to whom I give my thanks George Moss (1903-1990) was an important figure in Highland piping who has not received the recognition due to him. Such men […]
We kick off today with an appeal for a unique practice chanter. June Ross, a relation of Pipe Major George MacKenzie, Seaforth Highlanders, wishes for the return of the instrument. Unfortunately, we do not have a photograph of it. June says: “It was presented to my great uncle by the […]
• From the June 2017 Piping Times. By Allan MacDonald Side Lights on the Kilberry Book of Ceòl Mór, By Malcolm McRae and Robert Wallace (Piobaireachd Society, 2017). This has been republished recently (2016) and is a compilation of notes written by Archibald Campbell of Kilberry (1877-1963) while receiving instruction […]
