The Mid Argyll Pipe Band, Scottish Pipe Band of the Year and one of the oldest in Scotland, has marked its 80th anniversary by releasing a special CD demonstrating their musical versatility and featureing the band with some celebrated guest musicians – Brian McAlpine from Session A9, James Mcintosh from Shooglenifty and John Saich from Wild Biscuit. The tunes are a marriage of the familiar, some recovered traditional tunes native to Argyll and some new compositions by band members. The CD was launched on 1st August at Kilmartin House Museum, to an audience of around one hundred. The band managed to play one tune – Dougie MacLean’s The Gael – outside before being driven indoors by Argyll’s legendary midges. The CD cover features the band at Crinan with Duntrune Castle in the background. It is on sale at various retail outlets and Tourist Information offices in MId Argyll and is available online at Wild Biscuit. The band is shortly to return to Poland for a week of gigs, flying into Katowice and then going to Czestokowa, developing their long standing relationship with the pipe band and audiences there.