Capt. John goes to Drummond

Edinburgh – November 14, 2015 – Edinburgh’s Cameron Drummond was the overall Premier & A-Grade champion at the 2015 Captain John A. MacLellan Memorial Competition held again at the Army School of Piping at Redford. Innes Smith won the top Piobaireachd event, and earns an invitation to compete at the annual Capt. John A. MacLellan Memorial Trust Competition Recital in Edinburgh in August. The Competing Pipers Association also announced its end-of-year results for overall winners of their league table in piobaireachd across events adhering to CPA grading. Greig Canning was the winner in the B-Grade and Jonathan Simpson the C-Grade winner.

Premier & A-Grade
Overall: Cameron Drummond
Piobaireachd
1st Innes Smith, Glasgow
2nd Jonathan Greenlees, Glasgow
3rd Cameron Drummond
4th Jenny Hazzard, Edinburgh
5th Ed McIlwaine, Vancouver
Judges: Tom Speirs, Rab Wallace

MSR
1st Cameron Drummond
2nd Steven Leask, Glasgow
3rd Jonathan Greenlees
4th Graham Drummond, Bathgate, Scotland
5th Craig Sutherland, Crieff, Scotland
Judges: Iain MacLellan, Stuart Samson

B-Grade
B Piobaireachd
1st Anna Kummerlow
2nd Greig Canning, Edinburgh
3rd Steven Leask
4th John Cameron
5th Gordon Barclay
Judges: Bruce Hitchings, Colin MacLellan

MSR
1st Graham Mulholland
2nd Andrew Bova, Glasgow
3rd Lachie Dick, Edinburgh
4th Andrew Hall
5th Ross Cowan, Motherwell, Scotland
Judges: James Banks, James Hamilton

C-Grade
Overall: John MacDonald
Piobaireachd
1st John MacLeod
2nd John MacDonald
3rd Alex Gherig
4th Andrew Bova
5th Jonathan Simpson
Judges: Andrew Frater, Ronnie McShannon

MSR
1st Katherine Belcher
2nd Edward Gaul
3rd Jonathan Simpson
4th john Macdonald
5th Gordon Barclay
Judges: Walter Cowan, Barry Donaldson

Open Hornpipe & Jig
1st Steven Gray
2nd Cameron Drummond
3rd Graham Drummond
4th Steven Leask
5th Sarah Muir, Inveraray, Scotland
Judges: Iain MacLellan, Stuart Samson, Tom Speirs, Rab Wallace