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8pm. The judge will be Bruce Hitchings MBE BEM. The current competitor list is: Bruce Gandy, Gordon Walker,William McCallum, Alex Gandy (2011 Winter Storm Ceol Beag winner), Stuart Liddell, Roderick MacLeod, Angus MacColl (last year’s winner), and one ‘wildcard’ piper chosen by the organisers
• For College of Piping events see Noticeboard p37.
• In the Strathclyde Suite at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall on August 9 we
have the annual Piping Live! Quartet Piping contest. Bands competing are Inveraray,Manawatu Scottish, Scottish Power, St. Laurence O’Toole, Strathclyde Police and the 78th Fraser Highlanders. The contest starts at 7.30pm and tickets are £16/12.
• On parade in George Square during the week will be: St Thomas
Alumni PB, Mon. 8th; LA Scots PB, Mon. 8th;OranMor Pipe Band,Tues. 9th;Ulster Scots Pipe Band,Tues.9th; New York Metro Pipe Band, Wed. 10th; Oban Pipe Band, Wed. 10th; Canterbury Caledonian PB, Wed. 10th; Dowco Triumph Street PB, Wed. 10th; Saffron United PB,Thurs. 11th; Kintyre Schools Pipe Band, Thurs. 11th;NorthWest/White Spot Pipe Band,Thurs. 11th; Cullen Pipe Band, Fri. 12th; Denny & Dunipace, Fri. 12th;
• P/M Chris Armstrong’s Scottish Power Pipe Band will provide the
centrepiece of the annual pipe band concert at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. Tickets are available from http: //
www.glasgowconcerthalls.com. The concert is promoted by Phoenix
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Honda Glasgow Skye Pipe Band and P/M Armstrong is promising something special with a full orchestra and other musicians supporting.
London’s AGM, the following office bearers were elected: President,Hugh Jamieson; Vice President, Adam Sanderson; Piping Co-ordinator, Alasdair Smith; Active Committee Member, Terry MacGinn; Secretary, Membership Secretary and Treasurer are non-elected positions. Jackie Roberts, Lynda Jamieson andAndrew Hall remain in their respective posts. Retiring President Adam Sanderson said:‘I would like to offer a thank you to everyone who has supported me during my three years as president. It has been a real honour to be the representative and caretaker of such an esteemed charity.’
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HE Festival Interceltique 32th MacCrimmon trophy for Highland piping will take
place on Sunday,August, 7 th 2011, at the Palais des Congres, Lorient, Brittany. Pipers from Scotland are Alistair Henderson, Jonathan Graham and Cameron Drummond. Judges for the Scottish section are JohnWilson and Bob Worral. Competitors are invited from Ireland, Scotland and Brittany. Prizemoney totals £3,550. Competitors play a six minute medley in each section, Irish, Scottish and
London Society
OLLOWING nominations and votes from members present at the Scottish Piping Society of
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