Results

Kerr McQuillan of Peoples Ford Boghall & Bathgate Caledonia won the 2026 World Solo Drumming Championship at Glasgow Caledonian University, taking the world’s most prestigious solo snare drumming title in a field of 33 competitors from around the world. This is McQuillan’s third world title, and his second consecutive win.

Glasgow – October 17, 2026 – After the semi-final, …

Lochnell Castle, Argyll, Scotland – October 10, 20 …

The City of Angels won the top prize at the 2026 Seaside Highland Games, with its Grade 3 band taking the top spot and its new Grade 5 band making its debut over two days of competition. Founded in 2021, City of Angels has grown into a two-band organization in just five years, with the Grade 5 band representing a year of preparation and development.

Liam Horne of Wise, Virginia, won the 43rd annual Nicol-Brown Amateur Invitational Piping Championship, taking first prizes in both the Piobaireachd and 6/8 March competitions to earn the coveted title with 20 points. The competition was held at the St. Mark Presbyterian Church.

Ashley McMichael of Antrim, Northern Ireland, was named the 2026 Northern Ireland Piper of the Year after winning the Piobaireachd and MMSSRR events at the annual Ballymena competition.

Willie McCallum of Bearsden, Scotland, emerged as the Premier overall winner; Finlay Johnston of Glasgow won the Premier Grade Piobaireachd and the Captain John MacLellan Gold Medal; and Sarah Muir of East Kilbride, Scotland, won the Premier MSR and Captain John MacLellan Piper Statue at the 13th annual Captain John A. MacLellan MBE Memorial Piping Competition at the Army School of Bagpipe Music & Highland Drumming at Inchdrewer House.

Nineteen-year-old Nicholas Weston of Auckland emerged as the eighth New Zealand Young Piper of the Year, gaining the overall Under-21 title against 12 other competitors.

Andrew Hayes of Nepean, Ontario, won the 2026 Glengarry Cup, the overall trophy awarded to the contestant by winning the MSR and placing fourth in the Piobaireachd. Colin MacLellan of Edinburgh won the Piobaireachd.

By winning the Piobaireachd, Brodie Watson-Massey of Edinburgh won the Willie McCallum Sr. trophy for best overall at the 2026 Springbank Invitational Solo Piping Competition after tying Chris Armstrong of Glasgow in aggregate Piobaireachd + MSR points.

The singular Raasay Restitution solo piping competition once again put the accent on Hebridean culture and fun, this year moving from the Raasay Community Hall to the Raasay House Hotel, and it was Rachel Gray who won the “Pìobaireachd Song” event and Gary West who took the Dance Music contest, each coming away with terrific prizes.

Roybridge, Scotland’s Sandy Cameron was the aggregate winner across the top Senior events at the popular annual Blairgowrie & Rattray Highland Games, where a total of 60 pipers competed in the various events.

Winning three firsts and two seconds in the five events, Stuart Liddell of Inveraray, Scotland, gained the Chatsworth Champion Piper trophy at the annual Chatsworth Country Fair, held on the sprawling manicured grounds of Chatsworth House.

Zephan Knichel receives the trophy for best overal …

Results from the second and final day of competitions at Eden Court Theatre in Inverness