Author: Bill Wotherspoon
The Piobaireachd Society is pleased to announce the publication of Donald MacDonald’s Collection of Piobaireachd Volume 2, manuscript (1826), by Roderick Cannon and Keith Sanger. It is available price £30 from the Piping Centre and the College of Piping. Volume 1, Donald MacDonald’s book of Piobaireachd is still available price £20. The price for both books is […]
Author: Bill Wotherspoon
A successful event was held on 12 July in Inverallan Cemetery Grantown on Spey to mark 100 years since the death of General Charles Thomason. General Thomason was the author of the biggest ever collection of Piobaireachd, Ceol Mor, published in 1900. It was the first collection to lay out piobaireachd systematically and to use […]
Author: Bill Wotherspoon
Archie Kenneth Quaich Competition 5/3/11 1st Tom Peterkin MacLeod of Raasay’s Salute 2nd John Frater The Kings Taxes 3rd Alan Forbes Lament for MacLeod of Colbeck 4th James Kenny Lament for the Viscount of Dundee Judges Ronald Clark and Ronnie MacShannon Steward Dugald MacNeill The Archie Kenneth Quaich Amateur Piobaireachd Competition Saturday, 5 March 2011. […]
Author: Bill Wotherspoon
Annual Conference 2011 The annual conference will be held in Fisher’s Hotel Pitlochry on the weekend of 26/27 March, NOT the weekend of 19/20 March as previously advertised. The conference begins at 0930am on Saturday and finishes at lunchtime on Sunday. The cost of attending the conference and staying in the hotel is £145 for […]