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owco-Triumph Street enjoyed a perfect weekend at the annual Costa Mesa Highland Games, taking eight firsts from eight judges against two other bands in the Grade 1 competition.
At the De La Salle Highland Gathering in Victory Park, Johannesburg, Transvaal Scottish once again won the overall Grade 2 title, narrowly escaping the clutches of the African Skye who won the MSR. In Grade 3, the dominating Sandton Scottish also retained its unbeaten streak but was under pressure from Glen Allen Pipes and Drums who also won the MSR . . .
Cameron Drummond of Edinburgh won all three of the top solo piping events at the annual Atholl & Breadalbane Highland Gathering on a lovely sunny day, with the usual good turnout of competitors and listeners. A clean sweep of a Highland games in Scotland happens only every few years.
One of the best days of weather ever for a year’s first RSPBA major saw reigning World Champions Field Marshal Montgomery take the event, starting its season with a flourish. The renewed Shotts & Dykehead Caledonia, under new Pipe-Major Ryan Canning and with more than half of its members new to the band in 2013, made the prize list, while local favourites Boghall & Bathgate Caledonia scored big with a solid second prize. Field Marshal won the drumming, all but assuring the band of the prize . . .
While most of the competing bands in the UK played in glorious warm sunshine in Bathgate, Scotland, the first outdoor competition of the Ontario season was hit with unusually cold temperatures, hovering around 15 degrees, but with a wind coming straight from the Arctic. In the three-contest Grade 1 competition, the Peel Regional Police won the Medley competition while the 78th Highlanders (Halifax Citadel) took the MSR. The event attracted a large crowd with comprehensive . . .
The world famous piper Stuart Liddell has teamed with Wallace Bagpipes of Glasgow and G1 Reeds of Fife, Scotland, to create Liddell Bagpipes, a new . . .
Edinburgh pipers and drummers – of any age or ability – can finally get organized, quality instruction in a three-day workshop designed to counter recent budget cuts by the City of Edinburgh Council . . .
The pursuit of leading-drummers in New Zealand, with the Grade 1 Auckland & District competing with rivals ILT City of Invercargill for recruiting talent to run the back-end of the band. Auckland & District . . .
The revived Prairie Piping Invitational drew roughly 100 people for two hours of excellent piping. Organized by the Saskatchewan Highland Gathering & Celtic Festival, and sponsored by the City of Regina Pipe Band, the event featured six professional players . . .
The Saskatchewan Highland Gathering & Celtic Festival took place in great weather, and despite a smaller-than-usual entry of bands and soloists, the games drew enthusiastic crowds of spectators to see the variety of offerings in both venues.
Only last September Lee & Sons Bagpipes introduced zippered sheepskin and goatskin pipe bags, and now the . . .
With the Grade 1 Boghall & Bathgate Caledonia, tenor drummer Fiona Morris of Kinross, Scotland, is used to being determined to beat . . .
Transvaal Scottish, or “The Jocks” as they are commonly known, continued their unbeaten season by winning both the Grade 2 MSR and the Medley at the annual Celtic Fest at Modder Sports Complex in Modderfontein, Johannesburg. African Skye . . .
The Ottawa Branch of the Pipers and Pipe Band Society of Ontario held its annual indoor games at St. Michael’s Catholic High School in Kemptville, and 139 amateur solo competitors and 11 bands registered for the conclusion of the local . . .
The spirits of many have been dampened after the 2013 Gourock Highland Games were cancelled, nixing the first Scottish outdoor . . .