Results

The Emmanuel College Highlanders (University of Queensland) and The Pipeband Club won the Medley and MSR events, respectively, and it was Emmanuel College that took the overall Grade 2 trophy at the annual 121st Maclean Highland Gathering, one of the world’s longest-running piping and drumming events.

Topping his own record, Greg Wilson of Tai Tapu, New Zealand, won the Murray Henderson Clasp to the Gold Medal for the nineteenth time at the Hastings Highland Games, held over the Easter weekend in New Zealand’s Hawkes Bay region. Wilson went on to win the aggregate A Grade trophy.

Competitors with the last name “Gandy” did very well at the British Columbia Pipers’ Association’s Annual Gathering, with Alex Gandy winning the MacCrimmon Cairn Open Piobaireachd and Bruce Gandy winning the aggregate Open Championship with an MSR win and Piobaireachd second, punctuating his overall tally.

It was a double victory for Peoples Ford Boghall & Bathgate Caledonia talent as Kerr McQuillan and Jill Watson won the snare and tenor drumming titles, respectively, at the 2026 European Pipe Band Drumming Championships.

Finlay Johnston Stornoway, Scotland – April 2-3, 2 …

Five novice pipers from around the world submitted their recordings for the first in the 2026 series of Practice Chanter organized by the Competition League for Adult Solo Pipers, and it was Smadar Bernstein from Maccabim-Re’Ut, Israel, who gained three firsts over the four events to receive a new ES Session Chanter.

The 2026 Victorian Pipe Band Championships were held in conjunction with the Melbourne Highland Games & Celtic Festival in the eastern suburb of Croydon. City of Melbourne Highland prevailed in Grade 2, the day’s top contested event.

For the second consecutive year, Cameron Bonar of Surrey, British Columbia, won the annual Boney Music Memorial Invitational Competition & Recital held at the Seaforth Armoury.

The National Piping Centre’s McPhater Street premises were the venue for the latest in-person CLASP (Competition League for Adult Solo Pipers) contest, and it was Heinrich Herzog, Andrew Robertson and Cameron Davison who were the aggregate winners in the Grade 1, Grade 2 and Grade 3 categories, respectively.

Vancouver – March 28, 2026 – With two firsts, Alex …

Jake Jörgensen of ScottishPower won the 2026 Scottish Solo Snare Drumming Championship after a points tie with Peoples Ford Boghall & Bathgate Caledonia’s Kerr McQuillan.

With firsts from all eight judges, Canterbury Caledonian Society enjoyed a convincing win at the 2026 New Zealand Championships, held in perfect conditions at the TET Stadium & Events Centre in the small town near New Plymouth on the country’s North Island. It was the band’s first big prize under recently appointed pipe-major, Piers Dover.

Australia’s Victorian Pipers Association held their annual Online Solo Piping Competition, and it was Jono Quay who was the overall A Grade winner, Campbell Wilson in the B Grade, C Grade: Finley Parsons, Charlotte Donovan in the D Grade, and the overall Novice champion was Jonno Zilber.

Grade 2 Moorabbin City were the winners in the top contested grade at the Haileybury Pipe Band Competition, where a total of 31 bands competed across all grades. Grade 1 Hawthorn performed a Medley and MSR for judges’ comments as the only band in the top grade.

Steven McElhaney of Sacramento, California, was the big winner at the fifteenth annual Redding Solo Piping Competitions, winning the Grade 1 aggregate and thus earning an invitation to the Sandy Jones Memorial Amateur Championship in Florida. The overall awards were won by Katya Teodorovich (Grade 2), Brian Schwartzberg (Grade 3), Rees Parker (Grade 4) and Bill Bailey (Grade 5).