Stuart Easton was the victor at the Queens Birthday Solo Piping championships in the weekend. Queens Birthday is one of the last opportunities for pipers travelling to Scotland to air their tunes. The Dunedin Gold Medal, a Piobaireachd competition based on the list from Hastings, was won by Richard Hawke. Marion Horsburgh was 2nd. The Dunedin Silver Medal was won by Ben Murray. (more…)
Marion Horsburgh won the Targe for Piobaireachd, playing the Viscount of Dundee, at the Colin Craig Claidhmor & Targe held at the Celtic Inn today. Jamie Hawke was second playing the Unjust Incarceration and Martin Frewen was third playing the Bicker.
Martin Frewen won the Claidhmor event (MSR, Jig & Hornpipe), with George Mason second, Murray Mansfield third and Iain Robertson fourth.
The judges were Brendon Eade & Stuart Easton, the 2008 winners.
Click the title to hear the winner’s and runner up’s MSR and Medley performances (more…)
It is with pleasure that the Canterbury Caledonian Society Pipe Band
announce that James Laughlin will be taking up the position of Drum Sergeant
with the Band. James is a two time World Solo Champion in the Juvenile
Section 1, a semi finalist at the Adult World Solos and the 2007 winner of
the Professional aggregate Solo Trophy in British Columbia.James has been a member of Simon Fraser University since 2004, enjoying the
World Drum Corps title in 2004 & 2008 and also winning the World Pipe Band
Championships with the band in 2008.James is the founder of http://www.come2drum.com which is a great resource for
drummers wanting world-class tuition online.James and Lisa will be moving to Christchurch, New Zealand soon after the
2009 Worlds and will be employed by St Andrew’s College. The St Andrew’s
College Pipe Band is recognised as New Zealand premier College and Juvenile
Band and who recently won Grade 2 at the New Zealand Pipe Band
Championships.James appointment is a further development in the Canterbury Caledonian
Society’s Pipe Band’s drive as they prepare for the World Championships in
2010. Late last year the Band appointed Richard Hawke as their Pipe Band
Director who also is Pipe Band Director at St Andrew’s College
Harry Hawke was voted “Pipe Idol” as part of the Highland Piping Society of Canterbury’s Inaugural Pipe Idol Competition, held at Strowan House, St Andrews College on Saturday evening. The event drew crowds from as far north as Nelson, and as far south as Dunedin.
Five invited competitors competed in an MSR and “open medley” event, which was to be around 10 minutes long and was own choice in terms of content. All invited competitors were Under 21. The event was judged through 70% audience vote, and 30% from the views of the three secret judges, prominent in the New Zealand piping scene. At the end of the night, the winner and runner-up were presented with mini-trophies.
Liam Kernaghan was runner up. Other competitors were Richard Cox (Dunedin), Simon Fraser (Christchurch) and Callum Gilchrist (Nelson).
MSR
(In no particular order)
Harry Hawke
Major Mansons Farewell to Clacantrushal, Susan McLeod, the Sheepwife
Liam Kernaghan
John MacColls Farewell to Kilbowie Cottage, The Caledonian Society of London, Brown Haired Maid
Richard Cox
Craigs of Stirling, The Ewe with the Crooked Horn, Sandy Cameron
Callum Gilchrist
Craigs of Stirling, Susan McLeod, Duntroon
Simon Fraser
Donald Maclellan of Rothesay, Maggie Cameron, The Smith of Chilliechassie
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