2013 Piping Competitions & Festival
The 173rd Northern Meeting Piping Competition will take place at Eden Court from Thursday September 5 to Saturday September 7th. The senior competition is on Thursday and Friday and the junior competition on Saturday.
As last year we again hope to organise a small piping festival which will be run in parallel on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. There will be a ceilidh organised by the Inverness Piping Society in the Waterside Hotel on Friday evening September 6th and other events will be announced in due course. These events will lead up to the Blas Festival opening concert on Saturday evening September 7th. |
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2012 Competition
The 2012 Piping Competition resulted in a first time winner for the Clasp - Callum Beaumont and a local winner of the Gold Medal Euan MacCrimmon, who works in Inverness. We understand from Euan that this was his sixteenth competition so congratulations to him on his perserverance … read more
2012 Festival
The very first Piping Festival included a concert by Seudan bringing the sound of the 18th century alive by using replica pipes made by Hamish Moore. Allan MacDonald and Griogair Labhruidh also appeared at Bogbain … read more
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New Junior Competition
For the first time in 2012 the prestigious Junior Solo Piping Competition was open to all applicants. In the past, these competitions have been restricted to competitors from the Highland counties of Scotland. From now on the Northern Meeting will hold a junior competition which is of a similar standing to its senior competition.
There will be Piobaireachd and March, Strathspey and Reel competitions for both under 15s and under 18s, at Eden Court Theatre. The overall under 18s winner will receive a special prize, through the generosity of John Maclean, of a week’s private tuition at the National Piping Centre in Glasgow ... register here 
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Help Our Highland Piping Survey
Please help us to find out about bagpiping in your community. The Northern Meeting Piping Trust, working with the Highland Council, would like to gather information about the state of piping in the Highlands and about what developments the Highland piping community feel would be helpful. To enable us to do this we would first like to make contact with all the pipers in your community...read more
Contributing to Scotland's Unique Musical Heritage
The Northern Meeting Piping Competition has been held in Inverness since 1841. For the first hundred years it was part of the Northern Meeting Highland Games. Since the second world war the Competition has played a leading role in contributing to Scotland’s unique musical heritage...read more
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