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Because this wonderful tune is on the Piobaireachd Society’s Silver Medal Tune List for 2008, I have a feeling we will be hearing a lot of it this year. Alex Gandy (Bruce Gandy’s son) played it at the Winter Storm competition in Kansas City a couple of weeks ago. You can hear Alex’s performance courtesy of . . . → Read More: I Am Proud To Play A Pipe – new performances Well, I guess it’s a stretch, but I had this literary device hanging over me, so I decided to use part of it right away. Two weeks ago the Midwest Highland Arts Fund held their Annual Winter Storm Weekend, an indoor piping and drumming competition. The competition draws top pipers from across North America and even . . . → Read More: Something Blue? Winter Storm Piobaireachd. That is my fictitious name for a new pipe band, formed by Roddy MacLeod, M.B.E., Principal of the National Piping Center. In my previous post I wrote about Roddy’s new piobaireachd website. Well, apparently it’s not enough to be organizing that and running the Piping Centre. He has gathered a group of world-class solo pipers . . . → Read More: The Overachieving Highlanders… I’m fresh back from the Utah Pipe Band’s inaugural David Barclay Memorial competition. It was very smart of the UPB to organize an indoor competition at a time when next season seems so far off. The competition was well-supported and well-organized, despite the biggest snowstorm of the season showing up as a snowy white . . . → Read More: I am better than half of the pipers a third of my age Lovers of piobaireachd should definitely check out BBC Radio Scotland’s Pipeline show this week. The star of the show this week (10th November, 2007) is a beautiful performance of a tune that actually has no name. I suppose this is an artifact of oral transmission, but many tunes in the ancient piobaireachd canon have . . . → Read More: Cherede Darievea – the tune with no name Yesterday WUSPBA, the Western United States Pipe Band Association, made it official – my band, The Wasatch and District Pipe Band has been moved up to Grade 3. This move is clearly the consequence of some very hard work on the part of those involved in the running of our band, and the band members themselves. . . . → Read More: I Play in a Grade 3 Band! |
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