Photo added: Liddell wins Bratach, Open Piobaireachd at London

London – November 7, 2009 – At the annual solo piping competitions at London, organized by the Scottish Piping Society of London, Stuart Liddell of Inveraray, Scotland, won the biggest prize, the Bratach Gorm for piobaireachd, thus doubly securing his invitation to the 2010 Glenfiddich Championship, which he won the week before. Liddell also won the Gillies Cup Open Piobaireachd, completing an infrequent double. In the the B-Grade, Derek Midgley of New Jersey was the overall winner. It was the 70th anniversray year of the London competition.

 

Bratach Gorm (reserved for Gold Medallists)

1st Stuart Liddell

2nd Bruce Gandy, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia

3rd Gordon Walker, Galston, Scotland

4th Willie McCallum, Bearsden, Scotland

5th Roddy MacLeod, Glasgow

Judges: Bill Livingstone, John Wilson, Andrew

 

Gillies Cup Piobaireachd (reserved for A-Grade and Silver Medallists)

1st Stuart Liddell

2nd Bruce Gandy

3rd James Murray, Cupar, Scotland

4th Willie McCallum

5th Glenn Brown, Glasgow

Judges: Ian Duncan, Malcolm McRae, Jack Taylor

 

London Medallion MSR (reserved for those eligible for the Former Winners MSRs at Oban or Inverness and London Strachan winners)

1st Willie McCallum

2nd Callum Beaumont, Bo’ness, Scotland

3rd Iain Speirs, Edinburgh

4th Niall Stewart, Kyle of Lochalsh, Scotland

5th Roddy MacLeod

Judges: Walter Cowan, Barrie Donaldson, Iain MacLellan

 

1st James Murray

2nd Willie McCallum

3rd Roddy Macleod

4th Stuart Liddell

5th Callum Beaumont

Judges: Walter Cowan, Barrie Donaldson, Iain MacLellan

 

1st Stuart Liddell

2nd Glenn Brown

3rd Gordon Walker

Judges: Bill Livingstone, John Wilson, Andrew Wright

 

Piobaireachd (Snuff Mull)

1st Simon McKerrell

2nd Callum Beaumont, Bo’ness, Scotland

3rd Innes Smith

4th Jonathan Greenlees, Northern Ireland

5th Andy Rogers, Fredericton, New Brunswick

Judges: Ian Duncan, Malcolm McRae, Jack Taylor

 

MSR (Strachan Trophy)

1st Gordon McReady, Renfrew, Scotland

2nd Andrea Boyd, Glasgow

3rd Alan Johnstone, Glasgow

4th Andrew Carlisle

5th Cameron Drummond, Edinburgh

Judges: Walter Cowan, Barrie Donaldson, Iain MacLellan

 

1st Jonathan Greenlees, Northern Ireland

2nd Gordon McCready

3rd Alan Johnstone

Judges: Walter Cowan, Barrie Donaldson, Iain MacLellan

 

1st Faye Henderson, Kirriemuir, Scotland

2nd Derek Midgley, New Jersey

3rd Ashleigh Bell, Muir of Ord, Scotland

4th Tom Glover

5th Xavier Bouderiou, Brittany

Judges: Hugh Jamieson, Tom Speirs

 

1st Sylvain Hamon, Brittany

2nd James MacPhee, Inverness, Scotland

3rd Derek Midgley, New Jersey

4th Craig Muirhead

5th Keith Bowes, Glasgow

Judges: Colin MacLellan, Dugald MacNeill

 

1st Derek Midgley

2nd Sylvain Hamon

3rd Mike Fitzhenry

Judge: Murray Henderson

 

1st Alan Clark

2nd Duncan Beattie

3rd Craig Muirhead

4th Andrew Travers

5th Peter McAllister

Judges: Colin MacLellan, Dugald MacNeill

 

1st Scott Wallace

2nd Emmit Conway

3rd Alan Clark

4th Duncan Beattie

5th Douglas Gardiner

Judges: Patrick Grant, Ronnie McShannon

 

1st Emmit Conway

2nd Alan Clark

3rd Scott Wallace

Judge: Murray Henderson

 

1st Bradley Parker

2nd Graham Drummond

3rd Iain Wilson

 

1st Graham Drummond

2nd Calum Moffatt

3rd Bradley Parker

 

1st Stephen Gray

2nd Calum Moffatt

3rd Bradley Parker