During the Piping Live Festival the CLASP ran grade 3, 2 & 1 amateur solo piping competitions. The venue for the competition was the RSAMD. The overall winner of the Grade 1 was Joshua MacFarlane from Toronto. Joshua received an all expenses paid trip to compete at the Metro Cup in New York which was kindly donated by the organisers Eric and Maureen Stein.
Here are the results from the weeks competition.
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The National Piping Centre of Scotland is looking for full time and part time chefs.
The seventeenth annual competition for amateur piobaireachd players for the Archie Kenneth Quaich was held in the relaxed atmosphere of The Royal Scottish Pipers’ Society’s rooms in Edinburgh on Saturday 7th March 2009. The Piobaireachd Society sponsors the competition.
There was a good entry of 22 players and the competition was judged by Dr Jack Taylor, President of the Piobaireachd Society, and Mr Roddy MacLeod, Principal of The National Piping Centre.
Former Winners Piobaireachd
1st Alastair Dunn
2nd Margaret Dunn
3rd John Leamy
4th Andrea Cooney
5th Michael Egan
Former Winners March Strathspey & Reel
1st Alastair Dunn
2nd Margaret Dunn
3rd Andrea Cooney
4th John Leamy
Judges were Andrew Wright & Dr. Jack Taylor
Overall Winner Alastair Dunn
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The New York School is fast approaching. This year the Piping instructors are Roddy MacLeod MBE, Glenn Brown, Alastair Dunn & Margaret Dunn. The Snare Drumming instructor is Graham Brown.
The Edinburgh Knockout will kick off on Sunday 16th November in the Scots Guards Club Haymarket. The first two pipers going head to head for the audience votes are Margaret Dunn and Kevin MacNulty. The dates for the other competitors are not yet confirmed but the draw is as follows;
Cameron Drummond & Douglas Murray
Brian Donaldson & Willie MacCallum
Angus MacColl & Alistair Dunn
Margaret Dunn & Kevin Macnulty
Bookings are now being taken for the Munich Piping & Drumming school which runs from Sunday 9th – 14th of November.
Instructors this year will be Roddy MacLeod, Finlay MacDonald, Alastair Dunn, Ryan Canning, Margaret Dun & Dean Hall (Drumming).
For more information on the school and to book your place please visit
Please note that the “Drumming for Drinks” / Lord of the Todd Bass and Tenor drumming competition which is listed in the Piping Live! programme as being held in the Lord Todd Bar, University of Strathclyde on Tuesday 12th of August at 1 pm should now read Monday 11th August at 1pm.
