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…
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…
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…
[ September 6, 2008; ]
| September 6, 2008 |
The Dalmally Show takes place this Saturday (6th September). It presents competitions and demonstrations involving stock - the largest Highland Cattle section after the Royal Highland Show, crafts, garden vegetables and home produce. There are two shinty competitions…
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.
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