Annual Piping Concert featuring the Lothian and Borders Police Pipe Band and The Spirit of Scotland Pipe Band


Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Main Auditorium • January 28, 2012


IT’S a measure of the impact that the Spirit of Scotland Pipe Band had on the piping world with their one and only competitive performance at the Worlds in 2008 that they were invited to participate in one of the major concerts of the piping year.


Their story is well told in John MacDonald’s On The


Day DVD and another chapter in their short history has just been written with the concert appearance. However this concert wasn’t just about the Spirit of Scotland as pipe major Neil Hall’s Lothian and Borders Pipe Band were definitely not there just to make up the numbers.


PM Neil Hall


First up, Lothian and Borders immediately im- pressed with a solid sound and tight playing across a nicely balanced set list that included 6/8s, 9/8s a medley, an MSR and a drum salute, the latter being leading tip Jacob Jergensen’s entertaining take on Alex Duthart’s Salute to Max Rayne. A rousing set of tag team jigs that finished with the High Drive (and a cameo appearance from ex-Chilli Piper Stuart Cassells) and a


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FESTIVAL


All photos: John Slavin@Designfolk Ltd


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