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The Arbroath & District Musical (Competitive) Festival Association will hold the Solo Piping and Drumming competition on Saturday 3rd March 2012.
The event is to take place at Arbroath Academy. Entries close on 6th February.
The adjudicators for 2012 are: Gordon Bruce and Finlay Johnston, piping; David Ross and Fiona Wilson, drumming.

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The Scots Guards Club Knockout contest on Sunday 4th December was a close callwith Glenn Brown narrowly defeating Andrea Boyd. The next event will take place on Sunday 11th December with Jenny Hazzard playing against John Mulhearn. It starts at 4pm, £10 ticket with a meal included.

Wonderful opportunity for a Gap Student to spend 12 months involved with the development of The SCOTS PGC College Pipes and Drums, Warwick, Queensland Australia.
This position is primarily for a snare drummer. Experience in tenor/bass would be advantageous.
CVs with covering letter to Pipe Band Master Sandy Dalziel at:
sandy.dalziel@scotspgc.qld.edu.au
Please also contact him directly with any questions on this opportunity.
Applications by Friday 20 January 2012

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Piping Job Offer from George Heriot’s School – Required for January 2012

We require a skilled and inspiring Piping Instructor to provide piping tuition to pupils from both Primary and Secondary sections of the School. The post is part-time, two days per week, with the possibility of additional hours up to three days per week. Apply in writing (letter and CV) as soon as possible. For more details of the post visit the Heriot’s website www.george-heriots.com.

George Heriot’s School
Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, EH3 9EQ
Telephone 0131 229 7263

George Heriot’s School is governed by George Heriot’s Trust
Scottish Charity number SC011463

A night of exciting music played on unique mellow pipes.

Dalguise Village Hall – 8pm Friday 9th December
£7, £5(conc) & £3(under 16) – BYOB
Tickets from Fin Moore @ 01350 728838

“Seudan gave a superb evening of inspired music. Watch for Seudan next time, you will not be disappointed.” – Michael Grey

Seudan comprises some of Scotland’s leading exponents of traditional pipe music. The music is alive and vital, closely related to its old natural step dance rhythms while the piobaireachd follows the song versions from which they originated. The arrangement and delivery of their repertoire is directly influenced by the music of the Western Isles of Scotland and the East Coast of Canada.
The pipes played are matched copies of The Black Set of Kintail, made in 1785 and housed in The Inverness Museum. They have been measured and reproduced by Hamish and Fin Moore. They play in concert pitch A (440) and are made in ebony and mounted in solid silver.

Seudan are: Calum MacCrimmon, Angus MacKenzie, Fin Moore, and Angus Nicolson.
They have just released their debut CD, that includes: Mac Morin (piano and steps), Donald Hay (percussion), Ross Martin (guitar) and Kathleen MacInnes (Gaelic Song) & Allan MacDonald (Pibroch Song & small pipes).

“Seudan take a free spirited approach to their music, harnessing the best of Hebridean and Cape Breton influences… It makes for compelling listening!” – Roddy MacLeod MBE

“An ensemble of Highland pipes established with one thing in mind – to play in a rhythmic, communicative and exciting way.” – Hamish Moore

Wednesday 30th November and Wednesday 7th December
BBC2 Northern Ireland @ 19.30

Richard Parkes has been pipe major of the Field Marshal Montgomery pipe band for thirty years.
In that time, he has won the Grade One World Championships on six occasions. In 2010, he was runner up to his friend, Terry Tully, pipe major of the St Laurence O’Toole band from Dublin.
In these two programmes we follow Terry and Richard from the start of the 2011 season as one tries to hold on to his title and the other strives to take it from him. With unrestricted access to the two pipe majors through planning, rehearsal and into the performance arena, this is an insider’s view into the world of competition pipe bands and just what it takes to be the champions of the world.

The twentieth annual amateur Piobaireachd competition for the Archie Kenneth Quaich will take place on Saturday, 3rd March 2012, in the rooms of The Royal Scottish Pipers’ Society, 127 Rose Street Lane South, Edinburgh, starting at 10am.
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The 18th annual William Kennedy Piping Festival in Armagh will take place 17th – 20th November.
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