Kerr McQuillan wins 2024 British Solo Snare Drumming Championship

Glasgow – August 12, 2024 – Peoples Ford Boghall & Bathgate Caledonia’s Leading-Drummer Kerr McQuillan was the winner of the British Adult Solo Drumming Championship, the sixth in the series of events to determine competitors in the semi-final at the World Solo Pipe Band Snare Drumming Championships on October 19th in Glasgow.

It was McQuillan’s third championship win in the RSPBA’s new eight-contest league to determine a Solo Snare Drumming Champion of Champions for the year. The reigning World Solo Champion had previously won the British and Intercontinental titles.

Only the day before, McQuillan gained the European Pipe Band Drumming title with his corps at the European Pipe Band Championships in Perth, Scotland. On Wednesday, Peoples Ford Boghall & Bathgate Caledonia will take the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall stage, and on Friday and Saturday, they’ll defend their 2023 World Championship title at Glasgow Green.

The British Solo Snare Drumming Championship was held at the National Piping Centre’s Otago Street premises and organized by the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association’s Glasgow & the West branch.

With a total entry of 25, there were two heats to determine competitors in the 12-drummer final.

British Adult Solo Drumming Championship
1st Kerr McQuillan (1,2)
2nd Steven Shedden, Hawthorn (5,1)
3rd Stephen Creighton, St. Laurence O’Toole (3,3)
4th Alex Buchanan, Field Marshal Montgomery (2,6)
5th Eli Fugate, St. Laurence O’Toole (4,7)
6th Daniel Mulcahy, St. Laurence O’Toole (8,5)
7th Fionn Murphy, St. Laurence O’Toole (6,8)
8th Davy Clark, Peoples Ford Boghall & Bathgate Caledonia
9th Cameron McKail, Peel Regional Police, (7,9)
10th Ewan MacDonald (10,10)
11th Gael Mehat (Shotts & Dykehead Caledonia (9,12)
12th Rory Duncan, Inveraray & District (12,11)
Judges: Gordon Brown, Arthur Cook

Buchanan, Mulcahy, Murphy, Clark, Mckail and MacDonald join Scott Birrell, Canterbury Caledonian Society; Blair Brown, Simon Fraser University; Glen Creighton, Peoples Ford Boghall & Bathgate Caledonia; Creighton; David Henderson, Police Scotland & Federation; Jake Jorgensen, ScottishPower; Cameron Lawson, Inveraray & District; Eric MacNeill, City of Dunedin; Reid Maxwell, Simon Fraser University; McQuillan; Shedden; and Rachel Thom, Inveraray & District, who have already qualified through the European, Scottish, Intercontinental, Pacific Rim and Oceania championship events previously held.

The final qualifying contest for the RSPBA World Solo Drumming Championships is the United Kingdon Solo Drumming Championships on September 7th.

Including the World Solos, points accrued over eight championship events worldwide determine the RSPBA’s new Adult World Solo Snare Drumming Champion of Champions title.