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P-M Gordon Walker recital, National Piping Centre

Band to compete in Grade 1 in 2007

The 12 bands that qualified for the Grade 2 final at the World’s: Band Club Sydney (Australia) Culleybacky (Ulster) Bagad Cap Caval (Brittany) Seven Towers (Ulster) Ravara (Ulster) Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (Scotland) Tayside Police (Scotland) Torphichen & Bathgate (Scotland) Robert-Malcolm Memorial (Canada) Polkemmet (Scotland) Grampian Police (Scotland) Phoenix Honda-Glasgow […]

Australia, Clan Gregor, Ballycoan, Dysart, Alberta

Nethybridge, Scotland – August 12, 2006 – Brian Donaldson of Newbrigde, Scotland, took the aggregate award at Nethybridge Games, with two first and two seconds. Piobaireachd1st Duncan Grant, “Weighing from Land”2nd Brian Donaldson, “Lament for the Only Son”3rd Matt Pantaleoni, St. Louis, “Lament for Donald Duaghal MacKay”4th Ed MacIlwaine, Vancouver, […]

Perth, Scotland – August 13, 2006 – The Perth Highland Games drew an international crowd of solo pipers on a breezy, mostly sunny day. The light music had two short leats in the morning, and four pipers from each group advanced to the afternoon final. Jori Chisholm of Seattle at […]

Gordon Duncan Tribute, National Piping Centre

Robert-Malcolm Memorial wins Grade 2

Masters Invitational concludes week-long festival

Spitfire Drone Reeds, manufactured by Terry Ackland

P-M’s pipes gone, too

Anonymous buyer collects piping gold

A professional analysis of 2006 piping results

Kinloch Rannoch, Scotland – August 19, 2006 – Although the day started sunny and warm as pipers arrived around lunch, the day would turn wet and rainy, forcing sensible people indoors, and leaving the pipers and the athletes to get on with the games. Colin Lee of Burnaby, British Columbia, […]

Lost since return from World’s

Unhappy memories of the Canberra Burns Club Pipe Band’s 2004 trip to Scotland