CoP TUITION Spring term: 16th April-21st June 2012 Autumn term: 24th September-13th December 2012 CoP Tuition in Edinburgh: Monday evenings 7pm-9pm held in RSPS Rooms, Edinburgh; contact Dugald MacNeill at college@collegeofpiping.org CoP SCHOOLS Highland School, Achiltibuie: 1st-6th April 2012; alison@highlandreeds.com Easter School @ CoP: 2nd-6th April; 9th-13th April California Summer School: 15th-22nd June 2012; Army Navy Academy, Carlsbad (tbc) Summer School @ CoP: weekly from 2nd July-10th August New England School: 5th-11th July 2012; The Governor’s Academy, Byfield, MA
Unless otherwise indicated all courses can be booked online at www.collegeof piping.org or call 0141 334 3587 SOLO PIPING 7th April – Inveraray and District Junior Piping & Drumming Competition; Inveraray Primary School. Contact Mrs Agnes Liddell, 01499 302123 14th April – SPA Professional @ CoP tanned54@hotmail.com 21st April – Kintyre Piping Society Junior Piping Championships: W McCallum 01586 552508 21st April – Edinburgh Local Mod; Liberton High School, Edinburgh. Contact Alasdair Morrison, adm.siubhal @blueyonder.co.uk or 07954 142001 5th May 2012 – Junior Piping and Drumming Competition; Contact: alistair dewar@hotmail.co.uk or by telephoning 01631 571066;www.obanfestival.org 20th May – Open Solo Piping contest at
Gordon Castle Highland Games and Country Fair, Gordon Castle, Fochabers, Morayshire. Contact: H M Davidson 0131 7705459. 21st/22nd/23rd August – Argyllshire Gathering, Oban 6/7/8th September – Northern Meeting, Inverness. Junior competitions will be held on Saturday, 8th September 15th September – Springbank Invitational Piping Competition, Argyll Arms Hotel;WMcCallum 01586 552508 BAND CHAMPIONSHIPS 2012 Scottish, Dumbarton, 19th May British,Annan, 30th June European, Belfast, 28th July Worlds, Glasgow, 11th August Cowal, Dunoon, 25th August Lists of band contests for 2012 are now on the RSPBA website at rspba.org and in the January edition of Pipe Band Magazine available from the CoP Shop and the RSPBA. COMPETITIONS 15th April – London Mini Bands. Contact Mrs Annie Broderick 01787 269152 28th April – Dundee, Perth & Angus Mini Bands/ contact Gary Mair 01577 862337 EVENTS Every other Tuesday – Eagle Pipers Society, 7.30pm at Scots Guards Club, Clifton Terrace, Edinburgh: http://eaglepipers.wordpress.com/ 18th April – The Blackthorn Pipers’ Society, Blackthorn Gathering, Thyme Square Bistro, Dromore, Co. Down. Contact: sec_bps@hotmail.co.uk OVERSEAS U S A 3rd-6th August – Pipers’ Gathering – Burlington, Vermont (tbc) www.pipers gathering.org