EUROPE 1st Weds each month – Pipers Club of Copenhagen Contact: tue@it.dk or +452075 3306 Every Friday at 11am, Costa Blanca Pipers meet in the Casa Cultura in Finestrat village near Benidorm. Pipers and drummers of all levels would be most welcome:
AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND 6/7th April – Maclean Highland Gathering – 02 66452887, mail@macleanhighlandgathering.com 7th/8th April – Australian Pipe Band Championships, Eureka Stadium, Ballarat, Victoria:www.pipebandsqld.org 21st April – Bundanoon Highland Gathering – Southern Highlands NSW 12th May – Sunshine Coast Band Contest, Yandina – 07 5442 8 6 3 2 , h t t p : / / w w w . sunshinecoastpipesanddrums.com 9th June – IpswichThistle Band and Solo Contest – 0414 776 361, www.ipswich thistle.com 1st Sunday each month – Queensland Highland Piper’s Society Piobaireachd Group;www.qhps.org 1st Weds each month – The NSW Pipers’ Society. Contact: Ron Clement – 0299481914 3rd Sat each month – TheWA Pipers’ Society – Autumn Centre, Inglewood. Contact:Alma Dender – +0894487446
SOUTH AFRICA 7th April – Nampak Eastern Cape
Highland Gathering, Selbourne College. Contact: R. Rankin, 082 8978571(Tel), rankin@telkomsa.net
BELLOWS/FOLK 6th April – LBPS Annual Competition: Pleasance Theatre, Edinburgh; www.lbps.net 9th-13th April – Bellows Pipe Course on Skye at Sabhal Mor Ostaig; www.lbps.net 13th-15th April – Morpeth Northum- brian Gathering; www.northumbriana. org.uk 1st-6th July – Ceolas Summer School: South Uist, Hebrides;www.ceolas.co.uk Glasgow Session every Friday: Malcolm MacInnes 0141 429 4755 Meeting, 1st & 3rdThurs each month NE England: S. Barwick 0191 286 3545 Group Meeting, monthly NW England. R.& A. Evans 016974 73799 Group meeting 3rdThursday each month except July & August, London: J. Agnew 01621 855447
RADIO College of Piping Radio is available on demand at www.college-of-piping.co.uk; solo and bands; archive spot; history, interviews, and informed comment. BBC’s
‘Pipeline’ is on FM
92.4/97.7MHz;MW810 (Dumfries 585) and on Radio nan Gaidheal FM 103.5- 105 at 9.05pm on Sat-urdays and repeated at 7.05pm on Sundays. Also on Radio nan Gaidheal ‘Crunluath’ with Cailean MacLean at 4pm on Thursdays with repeats at 10.30pm on Thursdays.
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