Results

ampbell Wilson from Palmerston North, Zealand, but currently living in Plzen, Czech Republic, swept all three Senior solo piping events at the annual Airth Highland Games.

Compared with the UK Championships two weeks previous, there was a much stronger entry by bands at the 2025 Scottish Championships. With three firsts from the four judges, Field Marshal Montgomery won Grade 1 to secure the title, the second of the RSPBA’s four major championships, against a field of nine other contestants. It was the first major championship win for Pipe-Major Matt Wilson, who took over from the legendary Richard Parkes in the off-season, and Leading-Drummer Willie Glenholmes, also in his first season.

Charles-David Mitchell of Montréal won everything there was to win in the Grade 1 CLASP (Competition League for Adult Solo Pipers) in-person competition at the Inveraray Highland Games, to win the overall prize in a walk. The events were held concurrently with the Senior and Junior competitions on the Inveraray Castle estate. Contestants were fortunate to perform under shelters, but tuning up was challenging in the wet conditions.

Ben Duncan of Edinburgh won two of the three solo piping events on offer for those graded Premier or A by the Competing Pipers Association at the annual Inveraray Highland Games, thus gaining the overall trophy for the second straight year.

The Macalester College Pipe Band won Grade 3, the top-contested band event at the 2025 Minnesota Scottish Fair & Highland Games, held on the campus of Macalester College, one of the top-ranked liberal arts colleges in the world. Macalester College President Dr. Sue Rivera presented the band with the President’s Jug

The Regent House Playing Fields were the venue for the 2025 Ards & North Down Championships, organized by the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association Northern Ireland Branch and supported by Ards and North Down Borough Council.

Angus D. MacColl (the dad) and Angus J. MacColl (the son) shared the three first prizes in the senior solo piping at the annual Taynuilt Games near the scenic and historic Pass of Brander in Argyll & Bute. Ultimately, it was Angus J. the Younger who gained the overall trophy.

unny and warm weather was to competitors’ liking at the annual Cambridge Highland Games at Winston Churchill Park, and a good-sized crowd attended. With no Grade 1 entries, Grade 2 was the highest-level band contest of the day, which the Peel Regional Police Pipe Band won against two other entries.

Cameron Bonar won the Gordon Duncan Memorial Kitchen Piping medley competition, and Jack Martin, a member of Grade 2 North Stratton, won the Skye Richendrfer Memorial Jig. Each event paid homage to great contributors to the piping and drumming world. With three firsts and a second, Craig Sutherland came away with the Open Piping aggregate trophy.

In British Columbia’s remote southern interior, Kamloops boasts a population of more than 100,000, and the city expanded with the annual Kamloops Highland Games. A relatively small gathering of pipers, drummers, and pipe bands competed and performed as part of the British Columbia Pipers Association’s summer circuit.

Angus MacPhee of Inverness was the overall winner of the senior solo piping at the annual Inverness Highland games at Bught Park in scorching 32°C sunshine.

Edinburgh – June 12, 2025 – Dublin’s St. Laurence …

With eight first-place rankings from the eight judges, Greighlan Crossing were the easy overall winners of the Grade 3 band competition, the top-graded event at the annual Penticton Scottish Festival, held in sunny weather in the Southern Interior of British Columbia, the hub of the South Okanagan region on Canada’s west coast.

Ian K. MacDonald enjoyed three firsts in the four Professional solo piping events at the 2025 Kincardine Scottish Festival & Highland Games in spectacular weather at Victoria Park in sight of Lake Huron.

Field Marshal Montgomery won the 2025 All-Ireland Championships against a field of three other Grade 1 bands, gaining their record twenty-eighth victory of the event.