This was the 45th conference.  It is a unique event, much treasured, and always with a wealth of content.  Over the years it has moved from talk to tunes, and both were in the mix this year. Exerpts of 30 piobaireachd were played, old and new.  The fiddle was introduced too, help ma boab.  Was […]

The Piobaireachd Society’s Book 10 – Revised Edition 2016 Book 10 of the Piobaireachd Society’s collection was first published in 1961 and has been re-printed several times since then.   It was the tenth, and last, book edited by the redoubtable Archibald Campbell of Kilberry, who was, at that time, Honorary Secretary to the Society’s Music […]

Thanks to Peter McCalister for this article on War or Peace, or Cogadh no Sith to give it the Gaelic title.  There are many different versions reflecting that it was popular and widespread.  Tempo of Piobaireachd over the years is always interesting.  It first appears in Joseph MacDonald’s treatise (1760)  marked “Allegro” (fast), and in […]