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Taking another novel approach to the band’s August 14th “Ascension” show at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Inveraray & District is asking its many fans to vote for the competition medley they would prefer to hear on the night. The band has launched an online poll that will run until the half-way point intermission at the concert itself. The band requested that the pipes|drums act as the “main go-to place for voting,” and will also share the poll on its own website and Facebook page. Readers can listen to the medleys via publicly posted videos from competitions . . .
pipes|drums Magazine is delighted once again to bring our annual Pick The Six contest to our tens of thousands of readers worldwide. Everyone loves . . .
Field Marshal Montgomery continued their unbeaten streak for the 2013 season by winning the third RSPBA major, the Scottish Championship, at Levengrove Park in Dumbarton. Weather was warm and mostly sunny.
Margaret Dunn won the Piobaireachd and the MSR and was fourth in the Hornpipe & Jig, all while looking after her two small boys on another sunny Scottish day at the Airth Highland Games. Eleven competed.
If you were an Australian band of teenaged boys that spent almost a quarter-million-dollars on a trip to compete at a major RSPBA championship, only to find out a month before the date of the . . .
The annual Pipes of Peace concert at the SECC in Glasgow is adding a charitable element to this year’s event on August 15th, working with sponsors R.G. Hardie to raffle a set of Antique Thistle . . .
New Jersey native Derek Midgley was the overall winner against 13 other solo pipers at the annual North Uist Highland Games in warm and sunny weather.
They haven’t won the World’s. They haven’t won an RSPBA major championship. They haven’t even released a CD as a Grade 1 band. But the Inveraray & District Pipe Band, with little more than . . .
Greig Canning won his third straight McArthur Trophy for best overall at the Tomintoul Highland Games, in remote Banffshire. Only nine turned out for the senior solo piping, despite rare 29 degrees and sunshine . . .
The 78th Fraser Highlanders Pipe Band continued its consistent path upward with a win of the Grade 1 competition at the Cambridge Highland Games on a perfectly sunny and breezy day . . .
The 150th Antigonish Highland Games brought sunny skies, record attendance and a full slate of competitions. Bruce Gandy and Alex Gandy won all of the Professional Solo Piping events, while the Grade 4 Hamilton Police Pipe Band maintained its string of successive . . .
The traditional South Uist Games went on as they have for more than 100 years on the idyllic Hebridean island on Scotland’s western reaches. Cameron Drummond was steadiest, with three second-prizes and a win in the Jig . . .
pipes|drums Magazine is pleased to present the third annual free Pipes+Drums recital at the 2013 Piping Live! International Festival of Piping where six of the leaders from three of the world’s best . . .
What many would describe as the best organized and run outdoor event on the Scottish games circuit was, as usual, very well attended and held in the shadow of the famous castle in overcast with and occasional rain in the morning, but clear and humid in the afternoon. Argyllshireman Angus MacColl had the most success, winning the Piobaireachd and the Strathspey & Reel in the Premier/A-Grade category. Sarah Muir and Connor Sinclair’s stars continue to ascend, taking the firsts in the B-Grade events . . .
Morgan Miller and Kelly Todd were the biggest winners in the Professional Solo Piping competitions at the annual Fort Edmonton Celtic Gathering. Alberta Caledonia was first in the Grade 1 band competition, playing against the Grade 2 Edmonton & District, which played up . . .
Benoni MacTalla had a near clean-sweep of the Grade 2 band competition at the St. Benedict’s College Highland Gathering , depriving the Transvaal Scottish of a grand slam of all four South African Regional Championships. Transvaal Scottish was the overall winner of the title, with African Skye finishing second. The South African Pipe Band Championships . . .