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Dunoon Grammar School goes mega with a Burns Supper for 1,100
Dunoon Grammar School went large. On 23rd January the school marked the 250th anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns with all 1,100 of the school’s pupils and staff taking part in a traditional...
View ArticleMcGrigor puts Inveraray & District Pipe Band on the record
Stuart McMillan MSP, put down a Scottish parliamentary motion to congratulate Simon Fraser University Pipe Band on its Grade 1 World Pipe Band Championship success and to express concern on Strathclyde...
View ArticlePiping World stars Inveraray & District Pipe Band
The lead article in the latest issue of Piping World Digital - A Blaze in the Glens of Argyll: Inveraray & District Pipe Band - pays tribute to the remarkable series of top flight successes by...
View ArticleArgyll Pipe Band promotions for 2010
The National Council of the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association has announced the promotion of bands for the 2010 competitions.Argyll has three bands now confirmed for promotion:Kintyre moving from...
View ArticleWorld Solo Drumming Championship – Argyll results
Two of Inveraray & District Pipe Band’s finalists in different sections of today’s World Solo Pipe Band Championships found themselves finishing second in their respective grade finals after...
View ArticleRSNO cross-genre concert with traditional musicians
The Royal Scottish National Orchestra (RSNO) is appearing in a cross-genre ‘one off special’ in Glasgow this month – at the Glasgow Royal Concert Halls at 7.30pm on 28th November. With Phil...
View ArticleMuster 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...
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