FRIDAY

Two Dancers from Ontario

Well after a nice easy start of our first outside broadcast things definitely hotted up on Friday, with more results coming in from the dancers with both the Scottish Open Championships of the Highland Dancing and  the Qualifiers for the World Championships being competed for today, the piping competitions kicked off with the Solo Piping and the athletics also got under way with the Primary School Athletics and the Mens Heavy Athletics. This also brought more people into the studio for a wee chat with the presenters including Billy Forsyth MBE who is M.C. for the dancing competitions who has held the World Champion Title himself and another past champion Christine Lacey from Alexandria. From the piping world we where joined by Stuart Liddle Pipe Major of Inveraray Pipe Band who was judging today; Alasdair Henderson from Dunoon who won 2 of the solo piping competitions and was one of the first people we recorded way back at the 2006 MOD; Jori Chisholm from Washington also joined us and then I met him in the Trophy Room where he showed me some of the previous trophies he had won and explained how much he liked having them in his house, especially the old trophies which had all the names of previous famous pipers engraved on them as they made such a talking point. Well Jori was in luck as he is taking at least two trophies home with him this year – Best Dressed Piper and the Pibroch Trophy. We also managed to talk to some dancers, some children who had come all the way from Bothwell to compete in the School Athletics, members of Cowal Games Committee and some of the stallholders. All this and we managed to play some tunes as well.

More pictures and results from today will be posted on the web as soon as we can get them on. And we look forward to another busy day on Saturday when we already have some Bands lined up to come and speak to us live on air.

Jori Chisholm speaking to Dave Dewar