Contest looking to drum up entries
Young musicians urged to sign up
Young pipers, drummers, singers and dancers are being urged to get their entries in for the world’s biggest schools piping competition.
From quartets to pipe bands at the top of their game, the Scottish Schools Pipe Band Championships offers a platform to showcase Scotland’s musical heritage.
And the search is now on for performers from South Lanarkshire to take part in the event next March.
The Championships feature eight categories including a freestyle section, which encourages musicians to team up with singers and dancers to create a performance with a novel twist on the traditional.
The 2019 event in Livingston attracted around 800 players, including some as young as eight, and a band from Benbecula in the Outer Hebrides who had to travel for two days to get to the competition.
To enter a quartet requires just four pipers, or three pipers and a tutor.
Pipe bands can enter categories ranging from debut to novice juvenile.
Schools that need more players to form a quartet or a band can join forces with other schools in the same local education authority.
All schools or combined schools that enter a quartet or a pipe band are eligible to enter the Freestyle competition, too. The Scottish Schools
Pipe Band Championships will take place in Kilmarnock on Sunday, March 8.
For more information and details on how to enter the Championships, please visit: https://thechampionships. org.uk/