The Midwest Pipe Band Association

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:
  1. Nick Hudson, (Houston, TX): Farewell to the Queen’s Ferry
  2. Derek Midgley (Tinton Falls, NJ): Ronald MacDonald of Morar's Lament
  3. Andrew Carlisle (Pittsburgh, PA): The Unjust Incarceration
  4. Andrew Lewis (St. Paul, MN): Park Piobaireachd #2
March/Strathspey/Reel:
  1. Andrew Carlisle: The Braes of Castle Grant/Loch Loskin/John Morrison of Assynt House
  2. Jack Williamson (Topeka, KS): Leaving Lunga/Shepherd's Crook/Alick C. MacGregor
  3. Andrew Lewis: David Ross/Tulloch Castle/The Cockerel in the Creel
  4. Zak Read (Chicago, IL): South Hall/MacBeth’s Strathspey/The Sheepwife
Overall:
  1. Andrew Carlisle
  2. Nick Hudson
  3. Andrew Lewis
  4. Jack Williamson
  5. Derek Midgley

Congratulations to all the competitors!