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The Robert Wiseman Dairies Vale of Atholl Pipe Band hold their 35th Junior Piping and Drumming Contest in Pitlochry High School on Saturday the 23rd January 2010.

The draw is now available by clicking here (opens PDF file).

This solo contest is confined to players in Dundee, Perth and Angus aged 18 years and under. Competitions start at 9.30am.

Good luck to all competitors!

The Robert Wiseman Dairies Vale of Atholl Pipe Band hold their 35th Junior Piping and Drumming Contest in Pitlochry High School on Saturday the 23rd January 2010. This solo contest is confined to players in Dundee, Perth and Angus aged 18 years and under. Competitions start at 9.30am.

Entry Form can be downloaded here.

The Perth, Dundee & Angus Branch Solo Piping & Drumming contest was held on Saturday 21st November at Kinross Communiy Campus.

A large entry contributed to a display of talented Piping, Snare and Tenor Drumming from young and more experienced players.

Our congratulations go to the prize winners, and also to all those who took part and made the event a success.

Results can be found here.

The Branch is delighted to announce that the brand new "Loch Leven Community Campus" in Kinross will be the host venue for the Branch Solos this year which will be held on Saturday 21st November.
This exciting new location, which on the day will have been open for business for less than a month, should provide much needed extra space for competitions and band preparation rooms alike, along with plenty of car parking space. The Solo piping and drumming competition will be one of a series of inaugural events for the new facility.

Look out for the competition Entry Form in our Documents section in the near future. Please note, as this is a RSPBA Branch competition, all competitors who have been issued uniforms by their bands will be expected to wear it on the day.

Over 60 participants of all ages and abilities converged on the Quality Hotel in Perth on Sunday for the first ever Dundee, Perth & Angus Branch Pipe Band Workshop under the expert tuition of members of the Grade 1 Strathclyde Police Pipe Band.

Despite the large numbers of students, the short time available and the challenging range of abilities present the excellent tutors managed to work with all those present to cover a surprising amount of material in the day, culminating in a great fun and casual “Massed Bands” in the main hall of the hotel.  Who knows what the hotel residents thought !!

The feedback received on the day was overwhelmingly positive, and also provided a number of valuable suggestions for improving the event further in years to come.  Roll on next year!