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The 51st Annual Alma Highland Games were held on a hot and sunny Memorial Day weekend, with the official United States Pipe Band Championships taken place on the second day.
A total of 15 bands competed at the annual Kingston Scottish Festival near Canada’s first capital city. The predicted bad weather bypassed the event, and, instead, sunny and humid conditions prevailed, with temperatures reaching 30.
Contestants were treated to a gorgeous, sunny day in Scotland’s Perthshire at the annual Atholl Gathering on the grounds of the Duke of Atholl’s estate. Angus MacColl (the older one) won both Premier/A-Grade light music events, while Gordon McCready captured the Piobaireachd.
When a piper, drummer or pipe band competes, they expect the judge or judges to have proven successful competition experience at a high level. It’s called “minimum criteria” – the years of competition experience and success a prospective judge must have before he or she can sit an accreditation exam.
Despite electing to take the 2018 season off, the Grade 3 Empire Pipe Band of New York and Connecticut is making big plans, with sights firmly set on Grade 2 by 2020.
pipes|drums brings you six performances . . .
Stuart Easton continued his strong year with a win of both piobaireachd and Light music events at the New Zealand Invitational Claidhmor & Targe Solo Piping Competition held at the Celtic Inn Pub . . .
Tie with Winnipeg Police broken by ensemble in Grade 2 band event . . .
he North Stratton Pipe Band of Edmonton emerged as the overall winner of the Grade 2 event at day one of the Saskatchewan Highland Gathering & Celtic Festival. Thirteen bands competed in near-perfect conditions in Victoria Park . . .
Paisley, Scotland – May 19, 2018 – Fourteen Grade 1 bands competed for the British Championship and, in the end, it was ScottishPower that carried the day at St. James Playing Fields, in a high-standard contest that foreshadowed a very competitive season ahead. The win was the first major championship […]
The Fair Hill Scottish Games kicked off with a Friday night Professional Solo Piping contest at the Newark United Methodist Church, where 15 competed . . .
The first insallment of our exclusive five-part conversation with one of Highland piping’s greatest . . .
The invited soloists for the Captain John A. MacLellan MBE Memorial Trust Dinner on Sunday, August 26, have been confirmed, featuring two former winners, three who live in Edinburgh and, for the first time, a Canadian . . .
The Royal Scottish Pipers’ Society only a few years ago voted to permit females as members of the 120-year-old amateur piping organization and at this year’s RSPS Annual Competition Mary MacPherson made history by become the first woman contestant.
The lead-up to the fifteenth anniversary edition of the Piping Live! Glasgow International Piping Festival kicked off by rolling out a tartan carpet for Weegies to walk on the city’s iconic Buchanan Street, a photo-op to underscore the August 13-19 event that organizers expect to attract more than 40,000 . . .