Hamish Reade wins 2018 Pipe Idol

Reade competed against Luke Kennedy, Scotland; Douglas Mair, Scotland; and Anna Smart, New Zealand, and took home a new set of Fred Morrison Reelpipes.

Contestants have to play an MSR, a Hornpipe & Jig, and a maximum five-minute medley of their own choice for a panel of hand-picked “secret” judges scattered in the live audience, each round held at free events at the Street Cafe.

The winners of each round then competed in a ticketed Grand Final, held at the Strathclyde Suite of the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall on Thursday, August 16th.

Previous winners of Pipe Idol:

• Robbie MacIsaac, 2017
• Callum Craib, 2016
• Scott Barrie, 2015
• Calum Brown, 2014
• Angus J. MacColl, 2013
• Connor Sinclair, 2012
• Sarah Muir, 2011
• Alex Gandy, 2010
• James MacKenzie, 2009