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Shotts and Dykehead Caledonia Pipe Band under Pipe Major Ryan Canning presented 'Rise', the 2017 Worlds Week Concert in Glasgow's Royal Concert Hall.

It was good to video the concert and to be able to share a number of extracts online.

This first extract is a short set performed early on in the programme. It comprises the following tunes:

[00:07] Slow Air: The Siskiyou Trail (Ryan Canning)
[02:06] Waltz and Reel: The Lark in the Morning (trad. arr. Ryan Canning)
[03:20] Hornpipe: Mrs Sarah Moan (Kenny Moan)

SOURCES OF MUSIC:
The Siskiyou Trail and this setting of The Lark in the Morning are published in 'The Blockbuster' collection by Ryan Canning.
Mrs Sarah Moan is published in 'A Collection of Modern and Traditional Music for the Highland Bagpipe' by Derek Boyce (Book One).

A second set from RIse, Shotts and Dykehead Caledonia Pipe Band's Worlds' Week Concert given in Glasgow's Royal Concert Hall on 9 August 2017. The 'Worlds week concert' is an annual event organised by The Glasgow Skye Association.

Shotts and Dykehead Caledonia Pipe Band were Grade One World Champions in 2015. The band's Pipe Major is Ryan Canning and the Lead Drummer is Andrew Lawson.

The band is joined by Bill Livingstone, the band's special guest for the evening. Bill Livingstone is a distinguished pipe major (of the 78th Fraser Highlanders until 2010), piper, composer and writer, and an inspiration to many in the pipe band world. He launched his memoirs the week before this concert - Preposterous - Tales to Follow.

This Old School Set was a substantial, demanding and very skilfully compiled grouping of twelve tunes mostly composed in the 1990s, or traditional.

The tunes played were:

[00:00] Andrew and Colin Lee - Jack Lee
[01:27] Duckin' & Divin' - Philip Greer
[02:50] Bal na h-Aibhne Deas / Te a Chuailien Bhuidhe - trad.
[03:46] Braes of Tullymet - trad. Strathspey
[04:17] Wullie's Dram - Davy Barnes
[05:14] Megalomania - Mark Saul
[06:22] The Irish Chase - Robert Mathieson
[06:53] Cut the Cane - Robert Mathieson
[07:22] Lucius Warren & The Confrontation - Michael Grey
[08:10] The Chietain's Arrival - Bill Livingstone
[09:16] A Jacobite March - Bill Livingstone
[10:58] The Crooked Bridge - trad.

SOURCES OF MUSIC:
Andrew and Colin Lee - Jack Lee
Download from pipetunes.ca
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Duckin' & Divin' - Philip Greer
Terry Tully: A Collection of Traditional and Contemporary Irish Music, Book 3
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Wullie's Dram - Davy Barnes
Pipe Major John A. Barnes and Pipe Major David Barnes: The Fife Connection. A Collection of Original Compositions for The Highland Bagpipe
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Megalomania - Mark Saul
Mark Saul: Antipodes Collection Vol. 2
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The Irish Chase - Robert Mathieson
Pipe Major Robert Mathieson Book 2: About Time Two
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Cut the Cane - Robert Mathieson
Pipe Major Robert Mathieson Book 4: The Fourth Title
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Lucius Warren & The Confrontation - Michael Grey
from The Megantic Outlaw
Michael Grey: Old and New Tunes - The Third Collection
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The Chietain's Arrival & A Jacobite March - Bill Livingstone
both from the Suite In Celtic Times from Bill Livingstone: Bagpipe Music - Book 2
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This is Shotts and Dykehead Caledonia Pipe Band's 'Octagon' medley at the 2016 European Pipe Band Championships. The band is playing under the leadership of Pipe Major Ryan Canning and Leading Drummer Andrew Lawson.

The band's medley was:

The Octagon, Strath Brora, The Bride's Jig, Tha Mo Ghaol Air Àird A'Chuain, The Doune of Invernochty, Miss Lily, The Fox Hunter, The Ale is Dear, and The Los Romanes Highlanders

Shotts and Dykehead Caledonia took fourth place in a very competitive Grade One competition. The championships were held in Grant Park in Forres on Saturday 25 June 2106.

This is Shotts and Dykehead Caledonia Pipe Band playing in the Grade One Competition at the 2016 UK Pipe Band Championships.

The Championships were held on Saturday 11 June 2016 in the Stormont Estate, and were run under the auspices of Belfast City Council and The Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association.

The band's MSR was:

March: The Clan MacCrae Society [William Fergusson (1885 - 1949)]
Strathspey: Blair Drummond [traditional]
Reel: The Smith of Chilliecassie [traditional]

Congratulations to Ryan Canning and all members of the Shotts and Dykehead Caledonia Pipe Band on winning the 2015 Grade One World Pipe Band Championship. This video shows the Results Announcement, the March Off and one of the band's MSR performances at the competition.

[00:00] Announcement
[01:53] Scotland the Brave - massed bands
[02:40] Shotts march off
[03:17] The band plays its Qualifying Heat 2 MSR:
[03:17] March: The Links of Forth
[05:48] Strathspey: Atholl Cummers
[07:25] Reel: The Smith of Chilliechassie

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Shotts and Dykehead Caledonia Pipe Band under Pipe Major Ryan Canning plays its medley in the Grade One Competition at the Scottish Pipe Band Championships organised by the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association and West Dunbartonshire Council.

Shotts and Dykehead Caledonia was placed third in the Grade One Competition.

The band's medley comprised the following tunes:

The Blockbuster [Ryan Canning*]
Michael MacDonald's Jig [Jim McGillivray]
The Judge's Dilemma [PM Donald MacLeod (1917-1982)]
Victoria Harbour [Bruce Gandy]
Annie Grant [James Wark]
Dr Kenneth Noisewater [Ryan Canning*]
James Westfall [Ryan Canning*]
MacFadden's [traditional]
Big D MacPhee [Ryan Canning*]

* published in The Blockbuster, Ryan Canning 2015

The 2015 European Pipe Band Championships were held on 27 June in Grant Park, Forres, The event attracted thousands who came to enjoy the bands, the atmosphere and the fine weather.

In a Grade One competition which was very tight at the top Shotts and Dykehead Caledonia Pipe Band tied with Field Marshal Montgomery and St Laurence O'Toole. Shotts was awarded second place on the basis of the band's ensemble ranking. I cannot remember a similar competition where the top three bands received identical points.

This was a march, strathspey and reel [MSR] competition and the band, under the direction of its Pipe Major, Ryan Canning, played the following set:

March: The Highland Wedding [attrib. Donald Cameron (1811 - 1868)]
Strathspey: Susan MacLeod [Donald MacLeod (1917 - 1982)]
Reel: John Morrison of Assynt House [Peter R. MacLeod (1878 - 1965)]

Shotts and Dykehead Caledonia Pipe Band, Pipe Major Ryan Canning, playing its Medley at the 2015 United Kingdom Pipe Band Championships at the Stormont Estates on 13 June 2015.

The band's medley was:

The Octagon [Ryan Canning*]
Strath Brora [Donald Shaw Ramsay (1919–1998)]
The Bride's Jig [traditional]
Tha Mo Ghaol Air Àird a'Chuain (My Love is on the High Seas) [traditional*]
The Doune of Invernochty [William Grant, Strathdon (? - ?)]
Miss Lily [Bill Livingstone]
The Fox Hunter [traditional*]
The Ale is Dear [traditional*]
The Los Romanes Highlanders [Ryan Canning*]

* published in The Blockbuster, Ryan Canning 2015

The band was placed second in the Grade One competition.