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Interviewee: Hugh MacCallum
Interviewer: Howard Tindall
Background: A native of Campbeltown, Hugh MacCallum comes from a family steeped in Gaelic culture and in piping tradition. Taught by his relative Pipe Major Ronald MacCallum MBE, he has had a successful career as a competing piper, winning numerous prizes for piobaireachd and light music. He has retired from competitive piping and is now active in judging.
Publisher: The National Piping Centre
Date: 11-09-2012
Format: Audio
Subjects & Keywords
Organization:
- Falkirk Tryst Competition
- Argyll Militia
- Ceannloch Pipe Band
- Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 8th Battalion
- Argyllshire Gathering
- Northern Meeting
- Inveraray Highland Games
- Glenfiddich Championship
- Piobaireachd Society
- Stirling University
- National Trust for Scotland
- Heritage of Scotland Summer Schools, Stirling University
Person:
- Hugh MacCallum
- Howard Tindall
- Ronald MacCallum
- Archie MacCallum
- Pipe Major John MacKenzie
- Pipe Major Ronald MacCallum
- William Thomson
- Ronald MacKenzie
- John Ban MacKenzie
- John MacColl
- Pipe Major George Allan
- John McAlister
- William McMurchie
- Peter MacCallum
- Pipe Major Donald MacLeod
- Captain John MacLellan
- Donald MacPherson
- Stuart Liddell
- Ronnie McShannon
- James Campbell
- Archibald Campbell, Kilberry
- Seumas MacNeill
- Duncan Johnson
- Allan MacDonald
- Iain MacFadyen
- Duncan MacFadyen
- Donald Morrison
- Robert Innes
- Pipe Major Robert Reid
- Pipe Major John Burgess
- John MacFadyen
- Hector MacFadyen
- Pipe Major Ronald Lawrie
- Neil MacEachern
- Pipe Major William Ross
Place:
- Campeltown
- Lossit
- Machrihanish
- Whitehouse
- Tayinloan
- Kintyre
- United States of America
Subject:
- Regional Tune Variations
- Solo Piping
- Pipe Band Playing
- Gold Medal
- Open Piobaireachd, Argyllshire Gathering
- Clasp, Northern Meeting
- Silver Medal
- Competition Piping
- Piobaireachd
- World’s Greatest Pipers Series
- MacCallum Dynasty, Kintyre
- Piobaireachd Composition
- Jacobite Rising 1745, 250th Anniversary
- Piobaireachd Structure
- Campbell Canntaireachd
- Judging
- Teaching Piping
Tune:
- John MacFadyen of Melfort
- Mrs John MacColl
- Stirlingshire Militia
- Struan Robertson’s Salute
- The Unjust Incarceration
- Lament for Donald Doughal MacKay
- In Prase of Morag
- MacNeill of Barra’s March
- Lament for Mary MacLeod
- The MacNeils of Ugadale
- Ewe wi the Crookit Horn
- Mairi Bhan Og
- Willie Murray’s Reel
- Captain Campbell of Drumavoisk
- In Praise of Kintyre
- Raising of the Standard
- Captain Jack Murray
- Struy Lodge