|
|||||
|
Rather an unusual post this time – I’m testing a new way to update this page. Assuming that it works, you will be reading about the Enumclaw games last weekend. My band traveled to Washington State (the Tacoma area) last weekend to compete against some big hitters in the piping neighborhood. Although the competition took place in . . . → Read More: I test a new way to update this page Yesterday this fun and compact festival celebrated its 25th anniversary, and my band (the Wasatch and District Pipe Band) was there to help celebrate by winning the Grade 3 Timed Medley. The Payson Games is always a really good day. The games are held in the city’s little park, which is old. This means that . . . → Read More: Payson Scottish Festival The Utah Scottish Association Highland Games took place yesterday and Friday. I was competing solo, but have a year off from band competition as we get our new Grade 4 band established. This was a good thing, because it enabled me to focus on my solo stuff and I think it paid off. . . . → Read More: Salt Lake Highland Games It was Memorial Day in the United States yesterday and my band was busy! We had three cemetery performances and four of our band members played with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir for their weekly TV show “Music and the Spoken Word”. The other bands along the Wasatch Front were busy too. Here is a nice multimedia presentation . . . → Read More: A Busy Weekend For reasons too numerous to mention I have not posted for nearly two months. I didn’t really notice the time passing (which is either good or bad), so now I ought to rectify the situation. It seemed reasonable (after such a long break) to start back by referencing my previous two posts, and I can do . . . → Read More: I’m back…and I choose a tune from my previous two posts! In 1615 James Macdonald of Islay, beginning what was to be the final chapter in the Macdonalds’ struggle against the rule of England and Scottish surrogate rulers, escaped from Edinburgh castle to fight one last time with the clans against the crown. Among the clans he gathered to his cause were the Macfies of Colonsay under their . . . → Read More: A bittersweet piobaireachd |
|
||||
|
Copyright © 2012 Piper Pride - All Rights Reserved |
|||||
