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…
The Black Bottle Islay Pipe Band will be upgraded next season from grade 4A to 3B, following its triumphant best ever season. As we reported on earlier occasions, It took first in the 4A grade at both the World Pipe…
Word in piping circles is that Stuart Liddell, Pipe Major of Inveraray & District Pipe Band - now Champion of Champions in the Juvenile section at the first time of asking - is to launch a Grade 2 band to…
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