Tag: The Glasgow Highland Club

Entries open for Glasgow Highland Club’s school competition in 2024

Entries open for Glasgow Highland Club’s school competition in 2024

The Glasgow Highland Club’s Annual Competitions for schools’ pipe bands and individual pipers and drummers will take place at Hutchesons’ Grammar School, G41 4NW on Sunday, February 25, 2024. Entries are encouraged: this is a good opportunity to get school bands and individuals out on the boards in an encouraging […]

Piping 100 years ago: 1923 part two

Piping 100 years ago: 1923 part two

The second part of Jeannie Campbell’s 1923 retrospective looks at the early summer months and finds reports on pipe band competitions and solo piping results from around the Games. There are also reports on two pipe bands from Inveraray; PM Willie Ross’s three-week visit to South Uist for piping tuition […]

Piping 100 years ago: 1923 part one

Piping 100 years ago: 1923 part one

By JEANNIE CAMPBELL MBE • PART 1 • JAN to APRIL 1923 Looking back one hundred years to 1923 shows that some events were similar to those of today but there were many differences. In 1923 the piping world had to rely on word of mouth or the newspapers to […]

The Glasgow Highland Club’s schools competitions for 2023

The Glasgow Highland Club’s schools competitions for 2023

The Glasgow Highland Club’s Annual Competitions for schools pipe bands and individual pipers and drummers will take place at Hutchesons’ Grammar School, G41 4NW on Sunday, March 26, 2023. The application form can be downloaded here, and should be sent to organiser, James Beaton, no later than March 5, 2023.  […]