Angus MacColl is this year's winner of the Silver Cap solo piping competition. Second went to Stuart Liddell. Third went to Willie McCallum. Fourth went to Jamie Troy. Fifth went to P/M Gordon Walker. Sixth went to Bruce Gandy. Seventh went to Jack Lee. Eighth went to Ken Sutherland.
This year's event was attended by approximately twice as many people as last year's event.
The announcement of the Silver Cap Showdown was made at the end of the competition. The Silver Cap Showdown will be held in 2011. The envitees of this event will be the Pipe Major and the Pipe Seargent of the top six winning bands from this year's World Pipe Band Championships. This event will be a winner take all of a minimum of 10,000GBP. With adequate funding the prize money will hopefully be closer to 15,000GBP. This competition will be the same format as the solo competition. The set will be a March, Strathspey, Reel, Air, Hornpipe, Jig. One of these the big tunes must be a new composition which is to be composed by the Pipe Major. We will have a judging panel consisting of 2 pipe judges, 1 ensemble, and 1 drumming judge. All four judges will have their view of the competitor's obstucted by the Silver Cap screen. This event will happen as well as the Silver Cap solo event.
Please check back soon as more details are to be released at week's end.
TUNE SUBMITTAL
We know that many people throughout the world have written many good tunes which will go unplayed or unrecognized. It is our desire, with this program, to give everyone from the Grade 5 player to the Professional tune writer a chance to not only contribute to this competition but to have their tunes made available to the public. Read more
SPONSORS
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These samples are of the competitors playing their submitted tunes. All of these samples are on the CD. Please listen to each and vote on who's submitted tune you enjoyed the most.
Banks View played by Willie McCallum
Composed by Chris Armstrong
Donald Cameron's Powder Hornpipe played by PM Gordon Walker
Arrangement by PM Gordon Walker
Uisdean MacLeod played by Niall Stewart
Composed by Iain MacFadyen
My Beautiful Kind Young Girl played by Alasdair Gillies
Composed by Norman Gillies
Bad Party played by Alex Gandy
Composed by Alex Gandy
Peter Hunt played by Glenn Brown
Composed by Chris Armstrong
The Glen Brig played by Iain Speirs
Composed by Tom Speirs