Barry Wilson wins fourth straight World Solo Drumming Championship

Glasgow – October 23, 2010 – Barry Wilson of the ScottishPower Pipe Band was the overall winner at the 2010 World Solo Drumming Championships, held at Glasgow Caledonian University. It was the fourth consecutive win of the award for Wilson who came out on top against 10 other finalists. The overall result was determined from the aggregate of two events, a March, Strathspey & Reel and a Hornpipe & Jig. Jim Kilpatrick of House of Edgar-Shotts & Dykehead was playing to break his own record with a seventeenth World Solo Drumming  title. The top-four finishers in the final had each won the event at least once before.

Overall
1st Barry Wilson, ScottishPower
2nd Steven McWhirter, Inveraray & District
3rd Gordon Brown, Boghall & Bathgate Caledonia
4th Jim Kilpatrick, House of Edgar-Shotts & Dykehead
5th Gordon Lee, Simon Fraser University
6th Blair Brown, Simon Fraser University

MSR
1st Steven McWhirter (1,1,3)
2nd Gordon Brown (3,2,5)
3rd Barry Wilson (4,6,2)
4th Blair Brown (2,7,4)
5th Jim Kilpatrick (10, 4, 1)
6th Gordon Lee (6,3,6)

Judges: Joe Noble, Arthur Cook, Paul Turner

Hornpipe & Jig
1st Barry Wilson (1,1,2)
2nd Gordon Brown (4,4,1)
3rd Jim Kilpatrick (3,3,3)
4th Steven McWhirter (5,2,5)
5th Eric Ward, Strathclyde Police (2,10,7)
6th Gordon Lee (10,5,4)

Judges: Gordon Craig, David Brown, Sandy Steele

Competing in the final but not making the prizes were Derek Cooper, SFU; Stephen Creighton, St. Laurence O’Toole; Reid Maxwell, SFU; Aaron McCarten, Field Marshal Montgomery; and Chris McNicholl, Strathclyde Police.