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MacColl won gold medals at both the Northern Meeting and Argyllshire Gathering. [1] He also won the former winners Clasp at the Northern Meeting, several Ceòl Beag prizes, [5] [6] and the Metro Cup, in 2012. [7] Additionally, he won the Glenfiddich Championships four times, in 1995, 2006, 2010 and 2015. [8] [9]
Faye's mother Patricia Henderson has placed in Gold Medal competitions, and was among the first women to break into the male-dominated piping scene. [ 5 ] Henderson received lessons from an early age from both her parents, and was a successful solo competitor from a young age.
In 1950 he became the youngest ever winner of the gold medals for piobaireachd at both the Argyllshire Gathering in Oban and the Northern Meeting in Inverness, at the age of 16. [ 3 ] [ 2 ] He initially intended to pursue piping as a hobby, and pursue a career training horses, but he went on a tour of Canada and the United States with Willie ...
Born in New Jersey and raised in Ireland, Terry Carroll moved to Okemos in 1980, where playing the bagpipes became his trademark. He died Feb. 20. Bagpiper Terry Carroll played at hundreds of events.
MacPherson was one of the most successful competitive solo pipers of all time. In 1948, at his first outing at the Argyllshire Gathering in Oban, he won the Gold Medal, and later the same day won the Clasp for former winners of the Gold Medal. [7] In 1954, he won both the Gold Medal and the Clasp at the Northern Meeting in Inverness. [2]
Jori Lance Chisholm (born September 23, 1975) [1] [2] is an American professional bagpipe player and teacher who lives in Seattle, Washington.Chisholm is a successful solo competitor winning the United States Gold Medal four times and has placed in the top three in Scotland's Argyllshire Gathering Gold Medal competition. [3]
In 2010, Faye Henderson won the Highland Society of London Gold Medal at the Argyllshire Gathering in Oban, becoming the first woman to win the award either in Oban or at the Northern Meeting in Inverness. Aged 18, she also became one of the youngest ever winners of a Gold Medal, playing "Lament for Donald Duaghal MacKay".
William Lawrie (1881–1916) was a Scottish bagpipe player, ... In 1910 he became the second piper ever to win the gold medals at ... His bagpipes are now on ...