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Winning both light music events, Gordon McCready of Renfrew, Scotland, was the overall champion at the annual Dundonald Games near Kilmarnock.
Maxville, Ontario – July 31, 2026 – Playing “Lady MacDonald’s Lament,” Jean-Sébastien Gamache of Orleans, Ontario, won the 2026 Piobaireachd Society Gold Medal (Canada) against 11 other contestants, and Bruce Gandy, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, playing “Nameless – Cherede Darievea,” won the Bar to the Medal event for previous winners of […]
The sensational Angus D. MacColl of Benderloch, Scotland, has been awarded rafts of trophies and medals for a lifetime of success in elite solo piping competitions and as the leader of Oban’s pipe bands. His trophy room will now sport the Bruno Schroder Medal, after the Argyllshire Gathering Trust decided […]
The 2026 edition of the annual Glengarry Highland Games at Maxville, Ontario, will feature five Highland Society of London Gold Medal winners at the top-flight solo piping competitions on Friday, July 31st, and now fewer than 53 bands across five grades at the Saturday contests. On any other weekend, Maxville […]
The Competition League for Adult Solo Pipers (CLASP) concluded its 2026 season at the recent Inveraray Highland Games, and thus calculated the overall winners across both in-person and “live online” for the year: Grade 1: Charles-David Mitchell, Montréal Grade 2: Anthony Kelly, Co. Roscommon Grade 3: Cameron Davison, Glasgow Grade […]
Neil Walker of Perth, Western Australia, won the James A. Center Trophy as the best overall in the A Grade solo piping at the 2026 Victorian Pipers Association Victorian Championships at PLC Melbourne. Walker won all three light music events and was second in the Piobaireachd, which Jono Quay, Melbourne, won.
Greighlan Cross won both events in Grade 3, the highest grade of contested band events, while Alastair Lee gained the Andrew Bonar Trophy at the Friday night Donald MacRae Pub Piping Hornpipe & Jig, Callum Bevan won the Open solo piping aggregate trophy, and Megan Millar was victorious in the Open solo snare drumming at the 79th Pacific Northwest Scottish Highland Games & Gathering at Enumclaw Expo Centre in warm, sunny, dry weather.
Dr. Donaldson says about the tune, one of the shortest pieces in the repertory: The earliest report on the circumstances of its composition comes from James Logan in the notes for Angus MacKay’s published volume of 1838, which emphasize in Logan’s usual style a culture of chiefly munificence and quasi-feudal dependence
Inveraray & District were crowned 2026 Scottish Pipe Band Champions at Levengrove Park, within sight of Scotland’s iconic Dumbarton Rock, against a field of eight other Grade 1 bands competing for the fourth of the five major championships on the RSPBA’s rota of major competitions. St. Laurence O’Toole won the Grade 1 drumming title.
It was a Kiwi kind of day at the annual Airth Highland Games, with New Zealanders Callum Carn and Campbell Wilson winning the firsts, and Carn the aggregate trophy. It was Carn’s third successive Piobaireachd win, after hauling in the trophies at Helensburgh and Taynuilt games in the last few weeks.
With the band’s roots intertwined in the Kingdom of Fife’s strong tradition of piping and drumming excellence, including direct ties with the two-time World Champions Dysart & Dundonald, and decades in Grade 1 under the Fife Constabulary name, Police Scotland Fife inches ever closer to the pinnacle of pipe band excellence.
Bruce Hitchings has stepped down as chair of the Solo Piping Judges Association, effective immediately. A committee within the SPJA’s 60-odd members plans to identify an interim head to tide the organization over until its annual general meeting in November. Hitchings had held the role since November 2023. He succeeded […]
In addition to the Inveraray Highland Games’ traditional solo piping events, the popular gathering saw its second successive Solo Drumming Competition. Daniel Farrell won the contest for snare drummers ages 15 to 18, and Nathan Paul won the presentation shield for the Best Local Drummer award.
arry Evans of St. Andrews, Scotland, was the aggregate winner across the Grade 1 events run by the Competition League for Amateur Solo Pipers (CLASP) at the 2026 Inveraray Highland Games. Andrew Robertson won the overall award in Grade 2, and Philip Duthie won the aggregate in Grade 3.
The 2026 Minnesota Scottish Fair & Highland Games were held on the idyllic urban campus of Macalester College, and the Macalester College Pipe Band won the President’s Jug, presented by Sue Rivera, Macalester’s 17th and current president, who was a great promoter of the school’s Scottish tradition and instrumental in bringing the games back to the Macalester campus in 2023.
Stuart Liddell of Inveraray, Scotland, won both light music events and was fourth in the Piobaireachd to win the aggregate Alasdair Crystal Memorial Trophy in the Premier and A Grade events at the annual Inveraray Highland Games. Piobaireachd winner Callum Beaumont of Guardbridge, Scotland, was runner-up.