Finlay Johnston took home the overall prize at the 2019 Glenfiddich Piping Championship, held as ever in a crowded Ballroom of Blair Castle in Perthshire today.<\/p>\n
It was the second time that Finlay Johnston won the award, successfully defending the title he first won in 2018. He gained this year\u2019s win by placing 2nd in the Ce\u00f2l M\u00f2r and 2nd in the MSR.<\/p>\n
Competitors are asked to submit six tunes of each type.<\/p>\n
Results:<\/p>\n
Ce\u00f2l M\u00f2r<\/strong><\/p>\n 1. Glenn Brown, Milton, Ontario, Canada, Farewell to the Queen\u2019s Ferry<\/p>\n 2. Finlay Johnston, Glasgow, Scotland, Donald Gruamach\u2019s March<\/p>\n 3. Iain Speirs, Edinburgh, Scotland, Scarce of Fishing<\/p>\n 4. Jack Lee, Surrey, BC, Canada, Lament for the Laird of Anapool<\/p>\n 5. Connor Sinclair, Crieff, Lachlan MacNeill Campbell of Kintarbert’s Fancy<\/p>\n Judges \u2013 Patricia Henderson, Colin MacLellan and Stuart Samson.<\/em><\/p>\n MSR (twice through)<\/strong><\/p>\n 1. Connor Sinclair, Major Manson\u2019s Farewell to Clachantrushal, Susan MacLeod, Broadford Bay<\/p>\n 2. Finlay Johnston, Inverlochy Castle, Cat Lodge, The Smith Chilliechassie<\/p>\n 3. Niall Stewart, Kyle of Lochalsh, Scotland P.M.J. McWilliams, Glentruim, Ca\u2019 the Ewes<\/p>\n 4. Callum Beaumont, Dollar, Scotland, The Stirlingshire Militia, Lady Louden, The Little Cascade<\/p>\n 5. Stuart Liddell, Inveraray, Scotland, Mrs John MacColl, The Shepherd\u2019s Crook, John Morrison of Assynt House<\/p>\n Judges: Murray Henderson, Dr Angus MacDonald and John Wilson.<\/em><\/p>\n Overall<\/strong><\/p>\n 1. Finlay Johnston<\/p>\n 2. Connor Sinclair<\/p>\n 3. Glenn Brown<\/p>\n Also competing but not in the prizes were Andrew Hayes and Gordon McCready.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Finlay Johnston took home the overall prize at the 2019 Glenfiddich Piping Championship, held as ever in a crowded Ballroom of Blair Castle in Perthshire today. It was the second time that Finlay Johnston won the award, successfully defending the title he first won in 2018. He gained this year\u2019s win by placing 2nd in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,37],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13650","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"category-newsletter","8":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"simon","author_link":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/author\/simon\/"},"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcv15g-3ya","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13651,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13650\/revisions\/13651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}