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The Royal Burgh of Annan last year got a promotion to Grade 3A after winning the RSPBA Champion of Champions title in Grade 3B, and the band started its 2018 season by beating certified Grade 2 bands and winning the piping in Grade 2.
Reigning World Champions Inveraray & District started the 2018 Scottish Grade 1 season with a win at the Gourock Highland Games, the first contested event of the year for the top grade.
MacKenzie Caledonian bands win Grade 1, Grade 2 and Grade 4B . . .
Aggregate winner of the 2018 William Livingstone Sr. Memorial Professional Invitational Solo Piping Competition, held for the fortieth time.
The 2018 Northern Ireland outdoor pipe band competition season began under fine sunny weather at Castle Park, where Field Marshal Montgomery won the Grade 1 contest against four other bands, including Scotland’s Vale of Atholl.
One of Atlantic Canada’s longest-running bands, Grade 2 Dartmouth & District of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, has called off its 2018 season and might be done for good.
Renfrewshire town supporting event with marketing and communications investment rarely seen . . .
It’s been a long cold lonely winter, little darlings, but things will feel a lot warmer starting this weekend when the Scottish outdoor pipe band season opens up with the traditional start at small contests at Dunbar on the east coast on Saturday, and then over the west coast at Gourock on Sunday.
Stuart Easton of Palmerston North, New Zealand, won the Gold Medal event, and, for good measure, scooped up the light music events at the annual R.U. Brown Piobaireachd Society Solo Piping Competitions.
The Pipers & Pipe Band Society of Ontario’s Ottawa Branch Indoor Highland Games took place at Kemptville, Ontario, with almost 100 soloists competing in 28 amateur events. Eleven bands competed in the afternoon, with Rob Roy of Kingston, Ontario, taking the title for best overall band on the day.
Alberta’s 2018 pipe band season kicked off this weekend with the annual “Ogden Indoor” competition attracting a small entry of bands and soloists from throughout the province.
That 3/4 march that you love, even after playing it a thousand times, is named for a place in Argyllshire.
What is traditionally the first big solo piping event on the Scottish calendar this year will be the last before the Glenfiddich Championships, with the Uist & Barra Invitational Solo Piping Competition rescheduled to September 29th.
Technology has made it easy to enjoy quick-hit “achievements,” but does it come at a cost to long-term community gains?
The Chicago Scottish Festival & Highland Games on June 15-16 promises to benefit from a larger entry of Grade 2 bands, making it one of the more significant pipe band contests in North America.
The City of Queanbeyan Pipe Band of New South Wales, Australia, is commemorating an Australian hero and the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I with a composing competition for a Highland pipe tune, with a total prize purse of AUD$1,000.