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Glasgow – April 17, 2004 – The annual Scottish Pipers Association Solo Piping Competition took place at Stow College with a good turnout from Scotland’s better pipers. Piobaireachd1st Robert Wallace, Glasgow, “The Earl of Seaforth’s Salute”2nd Stuart Shedden, Glasgow3rd Gordon Walker, GlasgowJudges: James Young, Angus J. MacLellan , Iain MacFadyen […]
Glasgow show seen as biggest pipe band performance event of the year
Belfast event attracts 186 competitors
Quadrant ranking approach inspired by successful method of public schools
Willie McCallum, the world’s best all-round competition piper
Vancouver – March 13, 2004 – Jori Chisholm of Seattle won the annual BC Pipers Association (BCPA) Professional Piping Knockout Final against a field of 15 other competitors. The event was held in conjunction with the Association’s Annual Dinner. Competitors had to play an eight-to-10-minute medley comprising tunes of their […]
Richard Parkes, Field Marshal Montgomery Pipe-Major, accomplished soloist, and willing and enthusiastic teacher
Dawning of the Day will showcase new compositions
[Originally published as an Editorial] The late John Weatherston and his leading drummer Wilson Young started a trend when they integrated a church organ with the Red Hackle Pipe Band in the 1960s. Since then, bands have widened the appeal of pipe band music by working with other instruments, musicians, […]
Melbourne contest sees four Grade 1 bands compete
North Coast, Windsor Police beneficiaries of Grade 2 band’s break-up