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July 31, 2008

About 20 pipers braved a powerful wind blowing all day across the annual North Uist Games, but it stayed dry and sunny and there were different winners of each event. Only six . . .

Field Marshal Montgomery of Belfast came back to win the European Championships on their home turf on a very warm, dry day. The band also took the drumming award in Grade 1. St. Laurence O’Toole of . . .

Fourteen Grade 1 bands will vie for the remaining spots in the Final round at the 2008 World Pipe Band Championships. The RSPBA made . . .

Angus MacColl of Benderloch, Scotland, took the short ferry ride to Mull and returned home with all three first prizes from the Tobermory Games . . .

Clear, dry, beautiful weather was on order for the annula Luss Highland Gathering near the banks of Loch Lomond. The games continues its tradition of not holding a piobaireachd event . . .

Four pipers from the Grade 1 Los Angeles Scots Pipe Band will make an appearance on the Late Late Show on Monday, July 28th, as . . .

We continue our series with certainly the best pipe band in the three-thousand miles between Vancouver and Windsor, Ontario . . .

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The famous Scottish comedian Billy Connolly was in attendance at the 27th annual New Brunswick Highland Games Festival, where Bruce Gandy of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, won all four . . .

pipes|drums and House of Edgar-Shotts & Dykehead create contest for August 13th Glasgow event

Simon Fraser University won both Grade 1 events and Dowco Triumph Street took the quartet competition at the Pacific North . . .

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Kylie MacHattie explores the environmental impact of a typical Canadian pipe band, and comes up with a potential solution

Niall Stewart of Kyle of Lochalsh, Scotland, had a good day at Arisaig Games on Scotland’s west coast, taking three of four . . .

Gordon McCready of Renfrew, Scotland, came away with three first prizes and the overall trophy . . .

The active July slate of Scottish games continued apace at Halkirk, under glorious sunshine and before a record crowd. Euan MacCrimmon of Edinburgh . . .

Our popular feature continues with a band that hopes to clear the Qualifier on August 16th

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