The Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association (RSPBA) has chosen Dumbarton as the venue for the prestigious Scottish Piping Championship for the next three years.
In a massive boost for the area, Dumbarton will host the event in Levengrove Park until 2012 after…
Steven MacWhirter, from Northern Ireland but now a Glasgow based drummer and drum tutor has agreed to help Oban Pipe Band develop its Drum Corps.
Steven is Drum Major for the highly successful 2008 World, European and Scottish Champion Juvenile Pipe Band, Inveraray…
Argyll’s William McCallum from Campbeltown and Oban’s Angus MacColl were placed second and third overall in the Glenfiddich Piping Competition at Blair Castle. First overall was Gordon Walker. The next championships are down in London and Campbeltown will have three…
Inveraray and District Pipe Band were on parade on Sunday 9th November, playing in support of several memorial services in the area: Inveraray, Furnace and the Combined Operations service at HMS Quebec, now the Argyll Caravan Park.
This Scottish, European and…
[ November 26, 2008; 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ]
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Dunoon & Cowal Marketing Group’s (DCMG) have just announced their Annual Awards Ceremony and AGM and this year it looks like being a really spicey event. Not only are the Red Hot Chilli Pipers playing, but they’re also presenting…
They hadn’t dared to hope for this but the Inveraray & District Pipe Band has just heard that the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association (RSPBA) has accepted it to compete at adult Grade 2 level in 2009. This is a…
The Scottish Parliament has tabled a motion condemning anti-Scottish remarks made by English historian David Starkey during an interview on BBC Radio 2’s Clive Anderson Chat Room.
Mr Starkey first called Mary Queen of Scots ‘a whore and a trollop and…
Campbeltown piper, William McCallum has taken the Royal National Mod by storm this year. He won the John T MacRae Cup for Ceol Beag piping, won the March, Strathspey and Reel and was third in the Piobaireachd.
Eleven year-old Alexander MacKechnie…
Inveraray Pipe Band, under Pipe Major Stuart Liddell, won the World Championship this year in their first appearance in the Juvenile section. They also won the section at the Cowal Gathering and were then made Champion of Champions for the…
December 11th will see up to five hundred men from the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders march through Dumbarton, accompanied by pipes and drums. This will be one of three parades to celebrate their homecoming from Helmand Province in Afghanistan.
Major Bob…
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