LBPS Competition 2023 Results

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LBPS Competition 2023 RESULTS

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First-prize winners 2023

The results from the successful competition, held at The Burgh Halls in Linlithgow, West Lothian on 18th March 2023, are:

Seasoned Pipers – 1. Pete Stewart (The Old Stewart’s Come Again [from Oswald’s Caledonian Companion], Sleepy Body, Old Highland Laddie [from Oswald’s Caledonian Companion]); 2. John Kelly (In Praise of Maureen Mackenzie, Captain Carswell’s, Skye Tune).

Intermediate – 1. Matt Mochar (The Mill, Mill O, My Love She’s But a Lassie Yet, Ranting Roving Robin, Burning of the Pipers’ Hut); 2. John Kelly (Wals Voor, Le Canal De Octobre, Galician March).

Novice – 1. Esti Arkotxa (The Sleeping Tune).

New Composition – 1. Gordon Ewan (Linlithgow Burgh Halls); 2. Pete Stewart (The Claim of Right); 3. Matt Seattle (The Maze Ahint Traquair).

Skeely Piper – 1. Norman MacLeod (Saw Ye Never a Bonny Lass); 2. Iain Gelston (Angela, Miss Denton’s Fancy); 3. Stuart Letford (Variation 3 of Lament for Mary MacLeod, Maggie Lauder, Pretty Marion).

Open Solo Scottish Smallpipes – 1. Norman MacLeod (Young And Lusty Was I, Rattling Roving Willie); 2. Stuart Letford (Ye Banks and Braes of Bonnie Doon; The Birks of Endermay; Broken At Branxton, Gowd a Gowpens); 3. Pete Stewart (Trixie, Kilt Thy Coat Maggie, Dicke’s Away [Dixon ms]).

Duel for Pipes and Other Instrument – 1. Abbey and Esti Arkotxa (Lady Lucy, Miss Stewart of Grantully, Sir George Mackenzie); 2. Gordon Ewan and Matt Seattle (Appletreeleaves is Meikle Better, Lothian Lads), 3. Matt Seattle and Gordon Ewan (Barbara Allan, Drops of Brandy).

Solo Pipe and Song – 1. Judy Barker (Right for You); 2. Matt Mochar (The Loch Tay Boat Song).

Duet for Pipes – 1. Bill Bennett and Stuart Letford (Farewell to Govan, Bloody Fields of Flanders, Bonnie Lass O’ Fyvie); 2. John Kelly and Anne Duncan (Rose of Allandale, Stirling Bridge); Bill Telfer and Matt Seattle (Theme for the Early Days of a Better Nation).

Open Solo Scottish Border Pipes – 1. Gordon Ewan (Penguin Café, The Boy’s Lament for His Dragon, Campbell’s Farewell to the Redcastle); 2. Matt Seattle (Pearlin Peggies Bonny, Keilder Lasses, Lassies of Melrose, Irene’s Tune); 3. John Thompson.

Overseas – 1. Aart Dersjant (The Bear Dance, Unite the Clans); 2. Ludo Van den Bussche (Loch Broom Bay, Ye Banks and Braes o' Bonnie Doon, Roses of Prince Charlie, Killiekrankie, The Bonny Lass o’ Fyvie, Barnyards of Delgaty).

Our grateful thanks go to Lee Moore, Neil Clark and John Saunders for adjudicating.

You can see videos of the winning entries on the Lowland & Border Pipers' Society Official YouTube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/@lowlandborderpiperssociety7472/featured

A few photos of the event:

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