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2025 Alma Highland Festival Orders of Play

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Order of play have been changed to reflect scratches from soloists. Band times moved slightly as well, so please download both for Saturday.

The orders of play are now available for the 2025 Alma Highland Festival, May 24-25. The Games take place on Saturday and Sunday, but the sanctioned pipe band and solo contests are one day only, May 24 (Saturday). The Games & Festival are still being held at Alma College Campus.

Bands
Solos

Safe travels, and enjoy the Games!

2025 St. Louis Scottish Games & Cultural Festival Results

Westminster Pipe Band @ 2025 St. Louis Scottish Games & Cultural Festival

The results of our first outdoor contest of the 2025 season are in! Congratulations to MWPBA member Anthony St. Clair (Piper of the Day)!

Here are the results:

2025 St. Louis Band Contest Results

2025 St. Louis Solo Contest Results

2025 St. Louis Scottish Games & Cultural Festival Order of Play

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The St. Louis Scottish Games & Cultural Festival open up the MWPBA outdoor season, and are being held at Schroeder Park, 359 Old Meramec Station Rd., Manchester, MO on May 17, 2025 for all bands and amateur solos.

Parking information for the games can be found here.

The solos for open players will take place on Friday evening, May 16, at the Schlafly Tap Room, 2100 Locust St., St. Louis, MO. The open contest begins at 4:30 5:00 p.m. Entry is free to the Friday night event!

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Here is the order-of-play for the Saturday soloists. * * U P D A T E D * *

Here is the order-of-play for the bands.

If you live in the St. Louis area, we encourage you to come to the Schlafly Tap Room & Schroeder Park to support the pipe bands & soloists participating!

Swinton 2025 Results

2025 Swinton Overall Winner Andrew Carlisle & Pres. Jim Sim

Pictured: (from left): Overall Winner Andrew Carlisle & Jim Sim

Top Row: VP Scott McCawley, Teddy Krogh, Derek Midgley, Ken Liechti, Tom Cangelosi, Alastair Murray

Bottom Row: Zak Read, Andrew Lewis, Nick Hudson, Andrew Carlisle, Jack Williamson, George Gerules, Pres. Jim Sim

Photo: Claire Smith

The results from the 2025 Pipe Major Ian Swinton Open Professional Solo Piping Contest held on May 3 in Park Ridge, near Chicago, are as follows:

Piobaireachd:

Nick Hudson, (Houston, TX): Farewell to the Queen’s Ferry
Derek Midgley (Tinton Falls, NJ): Ronald MacDonald of Morar's Lament
Andrew Carlisle (Pittsburgh, PA): The Unjust Incarceration
Andrew Lewis (St. Paul, MN): Park Piobaireachd #2

March/Strathspey/Reel:

Andrew Carlisle: The Braes of Castle Grant/Loch Loskin/John Morrison of Assynt House
Jack Williamson (Topeka, KS): Leaving Lunga/Shepherd's Crook/Alick C. MacGregor
Andrew Lewis: David Ross/Tulloch Castle/The Cockerel in the Creel
Zak Read (Chicago, IL): South Hall/MacBeth’s Strathspey/The Sheepwife

Overall:

Andrew Carlisle
Nick Hudson
Andrew Lewis
Jack Williamson
Derek Midgley

Congratulations to all the competitors!

The Swinton May 3rd - Order of Play

The 2025 "P.M. Ian Swinton Open Piping Championship will be held Saturday, May 3rd at the Park Ridge Presbyterian Church at 1300 W. Crescent Ave, Park Ridge, IL 60068.

We have 12 top-flight soloists this year, so the contest will start earlier than previous years.

Doors open at 9:30 a.m., and our first competitor is up at 11am. Order of play

Admission is free. Come on out and enjoy the competition!