Scott,

Here’s the info for the watch party below. I can’t see too many people showing up since it’s so early, but I know at least a handful of “die hard pipers” that are definitely coming.

Andrew

Dear Ligonier Highland Games' friends, Carnegie Mellon Pipes and Drums' band from 2007, Scotophiles, Piobaireachd afficianadoes, All, 

As the CMU director of its Pipe Band, Andrew Carlisle, just shared with this Glenfiddich Piping Championship watch party announcement, beginning at 5am Eastern standard time, on Saturday, 10/29/22: 

Some interesting videos of champion piper, with a CMU bagpiping degree, Nick Hudson, who is one of 10 people competing this Saturday at the Glenfiddich: 

Nick Hudson - medley - 2016 Metro Cup 

Greetings from Pittsburgh. I was coming to CMU Pipe Band practices in 2006 & 2007, while living in Pittsburgh, and have just returned to Pittsburgh from California and the SF Bay Area again. While I'm now playing the Scottish small pipes only (due to a fairly recently developed ear condition), and am working on creating my second Scottish Small Pipes' album, this one of Piobaireachd / Ceol Mor, "Honey Piobaireachd," to release in December (with the first one, "Honey in the Bag," of Ceol Beag - https://scottmacleodhoneyinthebagscottishsmallpipesbagpiping.bandcamp.com/, both accessible from here -http://scottmacleod.com/piping.htm ), I'm writing to inquire whether it might be possible please to come to CMU Pipe Band practices or similar now that the relatively quiet non-Highland Games' season is arriving.  (My Walsh Scottish Small Pipes have chanters in A, B flat and D). I saved the email addresses from the CMU Pipe Band in around 2007 (and will see how many bouncebacks emerge), - and am also including in this email inquiry Stuart Liddell, a recent teacher of mine, and Joyce MacFarlane-McIntosh, a teacher of mine in Pgh in the 1970s, whom I was delighted to just meet again at the Ligonier Highland Games after about 45 years. It was great to see some of you too at the Ligonier Highland Games this year especially (blogging some about this here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2022/09/melancholy-thistle.html). 

When does the CMU Pipe Band meet, and where, please, if it might be possible to join a community of pipers here, and for the GHB, Scottish small pipes, Piobaireachd and Ceol Beag bagpiping knowledge conversation especially. Thank you.
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Dear Andrew, 

Thanks so much for your email, and great to e-meet you. What a great idea, the "Glen Fiddich watch party," at Goodlander's bar in Pittsburgh's Larimer area (less than a mile from where I lived with my parents in the 1970s as a teenager, on Juniata Court in Pt Breeze going to SSA high school in Fox Chapel, - and occasionally attending CMU Pipe Band practices in a gymnasium there with silver-haired Bob Hamilton as PM if I recall correctly). I think I'll try to attend this virtual Glen Fiddich piping championship arriving sometime between 5am ET and 6, for the adventure of this -

https://bagpipe.news/2022/10/05/the-glenfiddich-championship-2022-pipers-and-tickets/ - 10 am in Scotland.

Looking forward to meeting you then and here in Pittsburgh at the virtual Glen Fiddich,  in an iterating virtual Blair Atholl castle.

With best regards,

Scott