The 18th annual pipes|drums New Year’s Honours

2018 Piping/Drumming Event of the Year

Piping Live! Glasgow International Festival of Piping

Panellists’ comments:

• “A real festival of piping. Bringing one and all from across the globe to one place and generating massive.”
• “Always the biggest event of the year.”
• “Cannae beat it, man. Gallus.”
• “Piping Live! continues to produce a week of piping that has something for every taste and delivers a truly international festival experience.”
• “The one week of the year when it seems like everyone in the whole piping world is together in Glasgow.”
• “Gets bigger each year with so many different and varying events. The gathering that pulls in so many of the world pipe band community.”
• “A good event that places our instrument and instrumentalists on a higher plane for all to witness.”

Also nominated (alphabetical order):

Captain John A. MacLellan Memorial Dinner Recital – a truly world-class occasion of world-class pipers at a world-class hotel, the Captain John Medal is firmly ensconced at the top of solo piping’s must-attend events.

Glenfiddich Invitational Solo Piping Championship – reaching the hallowed stage at Blair Castle is the apex of a solo piper’s career, and annually 10 of the world’s very best are showcased in a must-listen all-day competition, streamed live globally.

Mackenzie Caledonian Pipe Band Centennial Concert – it was a big year for the Dundee-based Grade 2 Mac-Cals, who celebrated a century at a sold-out concert on home ground.

+ Bonnie Dundee

St. Laurence O’Toole – Turas Ceoil – Resume concert – Dublin’s finest returned to the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall stage for a sold-out show just before the 2018 World’s, knocking it out the park, as they say, to be sure.

+ Review: St. Laurence O’Toole’s finesse highlighted

World Pipe Band Championships – by sheer number of bands, the largest event by far of the piping and drumming year, the World’s went on again over two days, and well into the night on the Saturday before World Champions Field Marshal Montgomery marched into the darkness with the trophy.

Congratulations to all of the winners and nominees on their impressive, prestigious success! Thank you to our panel of experts who lent their time and knowledge to selecting our winners.

Previous pipes|drums New Year’s Honours:

• 2001
• 2002
• 2003
• 2004
• 2005
• 2006
• 2007
• 2008
• 2009
• 2010
• 2011
• 2012
• 2013
• 2014
• 2015
• 2016
• 2017

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