Muster the Argyll vote in Hands up for Trad Awards
Here are finalists in the 2009 Hands Up For Trad Awards – either from Argyll or with a strong connection to Argyll’s traditional music scene. Voting for them – now - is a great way to show...
View ArticleHaddington Pipe Band see Inveraray off in Hands Up For Trad Awards
As they say, you can’t win ‘em all. Inveraray & District Pipe Band, whose stunning achievement in 2009were regarded with open-mouthed awe, could not muster enough votes to win the Pipe Band of the...
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Mid Argll Pipe Band releases The Mid Argyll Collection
The independent-minded and innovative Mid Argyll Pipe Band has just released The Mid Argyll Collection – a unique collection of Highland Pipe Tunes, compiled by Rod Buchanan as a labour of love over...
View ArticleCurry and Bingo night fundraiser at George Hotel Inveraray
Sunday 28th March will see a Curry and Bingo night at Inveraray’s George Hotel (6.30pm for 7.00pm) – as a fund raiser to help World Champions at Grade 2, Inveraray and District Pipe Band to meet th...
View ArticleMid Argyll Pipe Band to the rescue of the Ceres Highland Games?
This could be a marriage made in heaven – a coming together of the Scotland’s oldest free Highland Games and Scotland’s oldest pipe band.The Ceres Highland Games, which takes place annually near St...
View Article2010 Ceres Highland Games gets its pipe band
We reported recently on the predicament faced by Scotland’s oldest Highland Games in Scotland – the Ceres Games in Fife.Their traditional date happened, this year, to clash with the British Pipe Band...
View ArticleScottish Pipe Band Championship
The 2010 Scottish Pipe Band Championship, the first of ‘the majors’, is at its traditional venue of Levengrove in Dumbarton on 22nd May.
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MOVE with Wild Biscuit, Mid Argyll Pipe Band, Random Aspekts and Dave Dunbar
Now there’s a team to conjure with – and conjuring is Wild Biscuit‘s stock in trade.Ever inventive, the Scottish project management company and music label, Argyll’s Wild Biscuit, is marked by its keen...
View ArticleWorld champions galore lift off and pipe up to battle at 2010 Cowal Gathering
Current and previous world champions will head to Dunoon in Argyll in nine days time – yes, nine days time – to compete at Scotland’s biggest highland games, Cowal Highland Gathering. The event runs...
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2010 Cowal Championships: inspiring Argyll pipe band results
Thousands flocked to Scotland’s biggest highland games, Cowal Highland Gathering in Dunoon on Saturday 28th August. The event this year welcomed Dunoon born former Doctor Who actor, Sylvester McCoy...
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Kintyre Schools, Isle of Islay and Inveraray come good at European Pipe Band...
In a series of great results at today’s (30th July 2011) European Pipe Band Championships held in Belfast, two Argyll bands took first place in their grades and a third put down a serious marker of...
View ArticleOlympic Flame? It’s the number two service for John o’ Groats
John o’ Groats is not actually the most northerly point on the UK mainland – that’s Dunnet head – but it is the other end of the notional diagonal line across the UK from Land’s End in the SW to the...
View ArticleInveraray win Quartets at Piping Live
The Inveraray and District Pipe Band’s quartet won the Piping Live 2012 Quartets competition at Glasgow’s Royal Concert Hall last night (Tuesday 7th August) .They played seventh in a field of eight,...
View ArticleInveraray & District Pipe Band for most prestigious concert in pipe band...
Inveraray & District Pipe Band will be taking to the stage of the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall on Wednesday 14th August 2013 for their debut performance at the Pre World’s Concert – which is just...
View ArticleFife Regatta coming through the Kyles at Tighnabruaich for lunch today
Twenty classic Fife yachts are coming through the Kyles of Bute today, en route from Rothesay on Bute for lunch in Tighnabruaich in south Cowal.This achingly pretty waterside village will be en fete...
View ArticleArgyll bands competing at the 2013 World Pipe Band Championships
[Updated 23.00 on Grade 1 position after quaifying.] There are 16 Argyll pipe bands competing at the 2013 World Pipe Band Championships – the first one to run over two days – taking place at Glasgow...
View ArticleCowal Highland Games offers free drumming workshops and invites mass...
Stephen Creighton, lead drummer with the renowned and on-song St Laurence O’Toole Grade 1 Pipe Band, is hosting two free snare drum workshops next Friday, 30th August 30, as part of the programme for...
View ArticleDouble CD of Inveraray & District Pipe Band’s Ascension concert now on sale
The double CD of the dynamic sell out Ascension concert in Glasgow’s Royal Concert Hall, given by the Inverary & District Pipe Band just before the 2013 World Pipe Band Championships is now on...
View ArticleArgyll pipe bands at the Scottish Championships
The fourth major pipe band championship of the year, the Scottish, took place on Saturday 26th July at Levengrove Park in Dumbarton. The coaches ferrying in the bands and the crowds could be seen from...
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How to kill one of the most important businesses for Oban: Arygll and Bute...
Argyll and Bute Council’s most pressing responsibility right now and into the future is economic development related to repopulation.Oban is a still lovely but progressively shabby and patched up town,...
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