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The last six spots for the Grade 1 Final competitions at the 2011 World Pipe Band Championships were determined after a 13-band MSR qualifier heat.
Field Marshal Montgomery of Belfast won the 2011 World Pipe Band Championship in convincing style at Glasgow Green, on a day that saw mostly dry, but generally heavily overcast, weather. Simon Fraser University of Canada was second, while ScottishPower cracked the coveted top-three with a third overall. Inveraray & District rose up the ranks, finishing fourth, and 2010 World Champions, St. Laurence O’Toole, fell back to fifth.
Meaghan Proudfoot reports on the Pipes of Peace Concert – Celtic Spirit, Lomond & Clyde, Simon Fraser University, St. Laurence O’Toole, Wasatch & District, Bob Worrall – SECC, Glasgow, August 11, 2011
Iain MacDonald reports from the Piping Live! Festival Club, one of the gems of the festival that runs each night at the National Piping Centre, starting after 10 pm and continuing until . . . whenever it ends . . .
The final full day of Piping Live! festivities before the big day at Glasgow Green took on a slightly more subdued tone, with anxiety on the . . .
Stuart Liddell extended the success of his Piping Live! week by taking the overall prize at the Masters’ Invitational, giving him an invitation to the Glenfiddich Championship later in the autumn. Roddy MacLeod won the piobaireachd event. The event was held at the Auditorium of the National Piping Centre.
While 99.99 per cent of the piping world had its attention affixed on the World Pipe Band Championships, a few soloists were out for a day at the annual Nethybridge Highland Games. Niall Matheson of Inverness won three events . . .
pipes|drums thinks the Juveniles deserve some attention. So, as in 2010 when we listened to and recorded the Grade 2 final at the World Pipe Band Championships, we committed much of the morning this year not to the Grade 1 Qualifier, but to the eight dedicated young Juvenile bands competing on Glasgow Green starting at 9 am. The result is eight high defition MSR videos that we hope inspire you as much as they inspired us.
Alistair “Aggy” Glendinning was a primary reason why the Scottish Borders Pipe Band was formed from a merger of the Hawick and Stow bands: he said that he would die a happy man if . . .
Glenisla Games had 17 competing in the senior solo piping on a dry day with, as usual, a mostly “international” entry. Alex Gandy of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, won all three events. There was no piobaireachd competition. All events were judged by James Burnett, Tom Speirs and someone identified . . .
Fifteen solo pipers from all over the world took part in the Glenfinnan Highland Games on Scotland’s west Highland coast in mostly overcast but dry weather with occasional sunshine. Peter Hunt won both light music events and was second in the piobaireachd, and Decker Forrest took the top prize in the ceol mor . . .
While about the same number of contestants were on the other side of the country at Glenfinnan, another 15 were at Nairn, where Euan MacCrimmon had the most overall success in dry, warm and partly sunny weather . . .
The World Pipe Band Championships are done and dusted, and now it’s the solo pipers’ turn to take the spotlight in the biggest competitions . . .
A brand new set of R.G. Hardie RGH002 pipes, a Premier HTS800 courtesy of Henderson Imports and a $200 voucher from John Walsh . . .
Andrea Boyd of Glasgow was most successful overall at the Crieff Highland Games against 25 other players in conditions ranging to sunshine to cloudy, but mainly dry. Many of the competitors were not from Scotland.
The major piobaireachd and light music events of the 2011 Argyllshire Gathering were held at indoor venues around the town, and the first major result was Iain Speirs of Edinburgh winning the Senior Piobaireachd. Callum Beaumont of Bo’ness, Scotland, later was announced the winner of the Gold Medal. Gordon Bruce of Glasgow won the Silver Medal. Stay tuned to pipes|drums for results from Oban as they are announced.