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The Argyllshire Gathering at Oban is the precursor to the Northern Meeting at Inverness for the world’s top-tier competing pipers. The sister competitions have been echoing one another for well over a century and stand as the most important non-invitational solo piping events on earth. The 2024 Northern Meeting will […]
A three-page open letter and accompanying proposal from an “Independent Working Group on Youth Piping and Drumming” comprising more than 80 youth band instructors to Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association leaders could be a first in the history of competitive pipe bands in the United Kingdom. The letter outlines the […]
Canada’s version of the Amazing Race might take in “Amazing Grace” when the program includes a stop at the Glengarry Highland Games at Maxville, Ontario, at 9 pm ET on the Tuesday, August 27th, episode on the CTV television network. The Amazing Race Canada production team visited Maxville and nearby […]
Liam Kernaghan won the third annual CPA Bronze Medal piobaireachd competition held at the National Piping Centre’s McPhater Street auditorium. Nineteen pipers competed in the event, which the Competing Pipers Association started to cater to members on the cusp of getting into the Silver Medal piobaireachd contests at the Argyllshire Gathering and Northern Meeting. However, the events are limited to only 25, far more than those who apply to get into them.
The tenth Captain John A. MacLellan MBE Memorial Dinner-Recital Medal was awarded to Ian K. MacDonald of Whitby, Ontario, held before a full audience at the Caledonian Waldorf Astoria Hotel in the heart of Scotland’s capital city. MacDonald played “For My Lass, Fair, Pretty and Highland.”
The Lonach Highland Games date back to the 1820s, and this year’s event saw a preponderance of non-Scottish pipers competing and succeeding. James MacHattie, Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Washington, DC’s Andrew Donlon, and Ben McClamrock, also of Washington, won the Piobaireachd, March, and Strathspey & Reel, respectively.
Sandy Cameron of Roy Bridge, Scotland, and Auckland’s Liam Kernaghan won top prizes at the annual Lochaber Gathering, winning the Piobaireachd and MSR for pipers graded Premier or A by the Competing Pipers Association. Andrew Donlon of Washington, DC, was awarded the “Best Strathspey & Reel” prize as part of the MSR event.
Zephan Knichel of Surrey, British Columbia, won two of the three events at the annual Glenisla Highland Games, held in a farmer’s field just off the B951 near Kirriemuir. Knichel played against five others in the Senior solo piping. The field’s owner, the mysterious Major Gibb, is part of piping folklore, as he gets to judge the piping events along with more qualified people. We’re not kidding.
Calls for the resignation of several representatives of the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association were allegedly made during a Zoom meeting between RSPBA officials and representatives from the 12 Novice Juvenile bands that competed in the final competition in the wake of the Novice Juvenile B results compilation catastrophe at […]
The Scotch College #2 Pipe Band of Melbourne, Australia, have reportedly emerged winners as more details regarding the Novice Juvenile B grade results debacle at the 2024 World Pipe Band Championships have come to light. Scotland’s Burntisland & District reportedly has won the drumming title, taking the prize from Dollar […]
Following the more than 150-year tradition of the event, the Argyllshire Gathering took its second day of competition outdoors to Mossfield Park where the world’s best solo pipers weather whatever the weather wanted in various light music events.
The first day of the two-day Argyllshire Gathering saw Cameron Drummond of Edinburgh win the Highland Society of London’s Gold Medal for piobaireachd, adding his name again to the history books. Drummond had been second in the event at Oban and Inverness several times.
Winning the World Pipe Band Championship is a rare and treasured feat for any pipe band, and for young pipers and drummers just starting, it’s a memory that lasts a lifetime. Several sources have confirmed that Lochgelly High School, the announced winners of the Juvenile B grade at the 2024 […]
“Our commitment to fairness, transparency, and integrity is paramount. We unreservedly and sincerely apologise for the confusion, hurt, and upset that this error has caused,” the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association said in a statement regarding an identified mistake in calculating the Novice Juvenile B result at the 2024 World […]
The Crieff Highland Games occurred the day after the World Pipe Band Championships concluded. James MacHattie of Summerside, Prince Edward Island, and Tom Cangelosi from Arlington, Virginia, won the Piobaireachd and MSR, respectively. However, neither won a prize in the other event, so Kyle Cameron of Fortrose, Scotland, was best overall, with a second and a third prize.
The World Pipe Band Championships consumed the attention of the majority of pipers and drummers worldwide, and now it’s solo piping’s turn, with the Argyllshire Gathering at Oban, the Captain John MacLellan Memorial Medal in Edinburgh, and the Northern Meeting in Inverness poised to command interest over the next two […]