This year's competition was held via Zoom. The videos of the prize-winning entries have been uploaded onto the LBPS YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/LowlandBorderPipersSocietyOfficial

 

                                                      RESULTS OF THE LBPS ANNUAL COMPETITION 2021

SEASONED PIPERS CLASS (Judge: Lee Moore)

1st

Pete Stewart

Wo Betyd Thy Wearie Bodie (Skene, MS, 1615)

An Old Man Is a Bed of Bones (Playford 1651 arr Stewart)

I Am a Silly Old Man (Balcarres MS as ‘Gin the kirk would let me be 1695)

2nd

John Kelly

Mary Scott the Flower of Yarrow

Linkcumdoddie

3rd

Jody Lynch

Teddy o Neill  (Air)

The Clare jig and The Nora Crionna hornpipe

The Wonky Table

 

INTERMEDIATE CLASS (Judge: Iain MacInnes)

1st

Alexander Sime-Scott

The Rock and the Wee Pickle Tow,

Lassie Gae Milk on My Cow Hill

2nd

Ruari Black

The Rose of Allendale   /   Knucklehead

Johnny the Tree Wrecker

3rd

Caroline Barden

Wee Totum Fogg

Pawkie Adam Glen

 

PIPE AND SONG CLASS (Judge: Iain MacInnes)

1st

Ian Crane

Tha Mi Sgith

2nd

Pete Stewart

The Ballad of Jock Elliot

 

SCOTTISH SMALL PIPES CLASS (Judge: Hamish Moore)

1st

Stuart Letford

John Anderson   My Jo / Jack Latin (from Dixon)

Lassies o’ Melrose

Joint 2nd

Norman Macleod

Dark Lowers the Night (3/4 Retreat),

Hacky Honey (9/4 from Dixon, tune #4)

John Charles Bauschatz

Shuidh Mi air Cnocan an t-Siùil

A Bhean Ud A-staigh Hì Rì a Bho

Horo Hug Gur e an Latha

He Mo Leannan, Ho Mo Leannan

Clo Mhicllemhiceil

3rd

Bill Bennett

My Home Town,

Scarce of Tatties,

Drops of Brandy

Aye Walkin O

 

LOWLAND & BORDER PIPES CLASS (Judge: Gordon Mooney)

1st

Stuart Letford

Rowan Tree (arrangement by Mark Stewart, Crieff)

The Lasses Bushes Brawly (from Dixon; the first four parts only)

Dixon’s Highland  Laddie (from Dixon but I shall miss our parts 6 and 7 due to time constraints).

2nd

David Faulkner

Joyful Days Will Come (David Faulkner) 

Dorrington Lads (Rook manuscript)

3rd

Ian Crane

Wat Ye What I Got Late Yestreen

Kiss'd Her Under the Coverlet