Piping Live Workshop Program, Aug. 14-15, Glasgow, Scotland

To all of our members and readers whom are traveling to Scotland for the World Pipe Band Championships, there's a learning event happening that you may not know about. It's the Piping Live! Workshop, and takes place in Glasgow from Aug. 14th through the 15th. Here is a link to their website, and their brochure.

2019 Minnesota Scottish Fair and Highland Games Results

The results of the MWPBA band and solo contests at the 2019 Minnesota Highland Games at Eagan, MN on Saturday July 20 are now available (band results, solo results).

The band results summary is as follows:

Grade 3 MSR (2) : 1. Macalester College Pipe Band (BDC, BBS) 2. Turlach Ur Pipe Band
Grade 3 Medley (2) : 1. Macalester College Pipe Band (BDC, BBS) 2. Turlach Ur Pipe Band

Grade 4 MSR (2) : 1. Twin Cities Metro Pipe Band (BDC, BBS) 2. Brian Boru Irish Pipe Band
Grade 4 Medley (3) : 1. Twin Cities Metro Pipe Band (BBS) 2. Cameron & District Pipe Band (BDC) 3. Brian Boru Irish Pipe Band

Grade 5 QMM (5) : 1. Kansas City St. Andrew Pipes & Drums 2. Minnesota Police Pipe Band (BDC, BBS) 3. Rochester Caledonian Pipe Band 4. Macalester College Pipe Band 5. Turlach Ur Pipe Band

2019 Chicago Scottish Festival and Highland Games Results

The results of the MWPBA band and solo contests at the 2019 Chicago Scots Scottish Festival and Highland Games at Itasca, IL on June 14 & 15 are now available (band results, solo results). Thank you to all the bands, competitors, adjudicators, volunteers, and spectators who travelled to help make the weekend a great contest! We hope to see you next year!

Video of all the contests will be available on the MWPBA YouTube channel. Grade 2 is available now, more are being uploaded. The entire two circle contest was recorded, so please be patient while all of the performances are edited and made available.

2019 Milwaukee Highland Games Results

The full results of the MWPBA band and solo contests at the 2019 Milwaukee Highland Games at Wauwatosa, WI on Saturday, June 1 are now available (band results, solo results).

2019 Alma Highland Festival and Games Results

The official results of the band and solo contests at the 2019 Alma Highland Festival and Games on May 25-25, 2019, are now available (band, solo).

2019 P.M. Ian Swinton Open & Terry McHugh Memorial Results

Thank you to all the contestants, judges, volunteers, and spectators on Saturday for turning the Day of Piping into a great event!

Here are the results of the Pipe Major Ian Swinton Open and the Terry McHugh Memorial Piping Solo Contest.

Congratulations to the overall P.M. Ian Swinton Open winner Andrew Carlisle!

2019 Terry McHugh Memorial Piping Solo Champions:

Grade 1: Joseph Horwath

Grade 2: Mary Thrasher

Grade 3: Gabrielle Neal

Grade 4 Sr.: Kristina Rodgers

Grade 4 Jr.: Clayton Nelson

Senior Novice: Peter Case

Junior Novice: Stella Jacoby

Recordings of the P.M. Swinton Open MSR and Piobaireachd performances are available on the MWPBA YouTube Channel.

Overall winner Andrew Carlisle, P.M. Ian Swinton, Pres. Jim Sim

L-R: Nick Hudson, Derek Midgley, Andrew Lewis, Terry Krogh, Andrew Carlisle, Jack Williamson, P.M. Ian Swinton, Brad Davidson, Kenneth Liechti, Jim Sim

2019 P.M. Ian Swinton Open/Terry McHugh Solo Piping Final

Now that the Terry McHugh Memorial Regionals are completed, let's look ahead to the MWPBA Day of Piping on May 4 at the First Baptist Church in Park Ridge, IL (1266 North Northwest Highway, Park Ridge, IL 60068)

The Terry McHugh solo schedule is here (updated 3:52 pm CDT, 3 May 2019).

The P.M. Ian Swinton Open schedule is here.

We hope to see many of you on May 4th in Park Ridge, IL for the MWPBA Day of Piping. It should be a great day.