Peoples Ford Boghall & Bathgate Caledonia wins International Quartets at Piping Live!

Glasgow – August 15, 2023 – The usual stowed-out Strathclyde Suite was again the venue for the International Quartet Competition, where Scotland’s Peoples Ford Boghall & Bathgate Caledonia Scotland was determined the best overall by a panel of “secret” judges scattered in the audience.

Each quartet played an MSR of their own choice in the first round, and a medley, also of their own choice, in the second half.

Only one prize is awarded, though each group receives a small remuneration in return for their self-flagellating masochism.

The event is considered one of pipe banding’s most nerve-racking contests. With a hot room and several hundred mistake-obsessed pipers and drummers listening for any slip or badly-blown note, there is even less room for error than in a full pipe band competition.

It was the first time in the event’s history that Peoples Ford Boghall & Bathgate Caledonia won the event. A quartet from ScottishPower was the winner of the 2022 competition.