Author: Bill Wotherspoon
Annual Conference Report 2012 The annual conference was held in the Birnam hotel on 24/25 March. This proved a successful venue – easy transport links, excellent comfort and service, and a splendid conference hall with a high arched ceiling making for a first class pipe acoustic. And pipes were heard frequently – at the CoP […]
Author: Bill Wotherspoon
The results of the Archie Kenneth Quaich which took place in the Royal Scottish Piper’s Society Rooms on 3rd March 2012 are as follows 1. John Frater The Old Men of the Shells 2. Tom Peterkin Salute to Donald 3. Eric McKimmon Lady Doyle’s Salute 4. Con Houlihan Lament for the Viscount of Dundee 5. Alan Forbes […]
Author: Bill Wotherspoon
THE ARCHIE KENNETH QUAICH COMPETITION 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. Entries and enquiries to Alan Forbes, 24 Garscube Terrace, Edinburgh EH12 6BN. Tel: […]
Author: Bill Wotherspoon
Conference Report 2011 It was another good conference by all accounts with a good mix of talk and tunes. It might have been subtitled MacDonald as there was much reference to John and Donald. The COP lecture was given on Friday evening by Piobaireachd Society President Jack Taylor who talked about the future of Ceol […]