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…
The Drum Major who won the Mace Over the Bar competition at Argyll’s Cowal Gathering - and the gallon of whisky that went with it was… Brian Wilson, of Lomond and Clyde Pipe Band. The Most Entertaining Band was George…
[ August 11, 2008 to August 17, 2008. ]
| August 11, 2008 | to | August 17, 2008 |
The 2008 Festival will run from 11th - 17th August with events and concerts all over Glasgow.
The results of the Solo Piping competitions at the 2008 Argyllshire Gathering (Oban Games) are
Jackie BIrd is fronting a BBC 1 Scotland programme next Sunday (7th September) at 6.40pm on the recent World Pipe Band Championships held at Glasgow Green. If you can’t see it on its scheduled time or date, remember yu can…
Results for all competing Argyll pipe bands at the 2008 Cowal Gathering are below - plus details of the winning band in each section.
We’ll have the full results shortly but - first things first - here’s the good news for Argyll. The Black Bottle Islay PIpe Band, relative newcomers, were winners in the 4A Grade and have been made Champion of Champions in…
This week Argyll’s two major highland games took centre stage - the Argyllshire Gathering (shorthand: the Oban Games) on Thursday 28th August for one day. The featured pipe bands in this event were the Scots Guards Association and Tiree. The…
… and is expecting a record of 20,000 spectators this year. Big attractions are the World Championships in Highland Dancing and the Cowal Pipe Band Championships, with Scottish bands faced with teams from America, Canada and New Zealand in a…
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