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Lochgelly High School gains prize in Grade 1 band contest

Veteran’s Memorial Highland Games makes debut; Maxville deadline June 14

FMM P-M named in Queen’s Birthday Honours

Drambuie-Kirkliston takes Grade 2

Thirty bands compete in sun-soaked events

Forfar, Scotland – June 13, 2004 – Fifteen solo pipers played in the senior events at the Forfar Highland Games. James Murray of Fife and Simon McKerrell of Edinburgh took all of the first and second prizes. Piobaireachd1st James Murray2nd Simon McKerrall3rd Roddy Weir, Edinburgh4th Ryan McFarland5th Neil McNaughton March1st […]

Edinburgh-based piper hooks up via McCartney

Eastern-Ontario contest attracts strong entry

Gandys dominate solo piping

Takes piobaireachd; MacLeod wins MSR

[Originally published as an Editorial] It’s remarkable that only 10 years ago the tenor drum was going the way that cane drone reeds and the 3/4 march are today. Tenor drumming was seen by many as little more than a distraction from the pipes, snares, and ensemble. Back then, most […]

78th Highlanders (Halifax) also not likely to attend

Pipe-Major John Thomas “J.T.” MacKenzie died in Alexandria, Ontario, on May 2, 2004, age 83. He was one of Canadian piping’s most prominent post-War figures. Born in Edinburgh on September 16, 1920, he joined the Scots Guards at the age of 15 and became a Pipe-Major in his early twenties. […]

Duthart takes over as leading-drummer

Walsh Long Blackwood Practice Chanter, John Walsh Bagpipes Ltd.

Bruce Gandy �C competitor, performer, recording artist, father