May, 2016 Noah competed solor grade 5 jr in the practice chanter with “Brown Haired Maiden”. He won, he was the only competitor. Nick Hudson was his judge. At the Greenville SC Games. Continue reading “Noah’s first competition on practice chanter”
Month: May 2016
Art in the Dairy
The Queen City JPD performed for a small crowd at a little art open house in Charlotte called Art In The Dairy. You will see Noah distracted by the loud airplanes overhead…. May 25, 2016 Continue reading “Art in the Dairy”
In Which Mom gets some bagpipes
May 12, 2016 Andrea let me borrow a set of bagpipes until Marianna (a young piper from the juvenile band) was ready to have them. She corked off the drones and says to practice steady blowing and pressure while sounding low A. YIPPEEEE, I WAS SOOOOOO excited!!!! Continue reading “In Which Mom gets some bagpipes”
Mom almost on pipes
May 5, 2016 after starting on practice chanter Jan 1, 2016, Andrea said if I can memorized Amazing Grace (which I already had) and High Road to Gairloch, she’d let me borrow a set of pipes from the band. I think I had these to memorized fairly well already, so I started to work on Brown Haired Maiden, Minstrel Boy and Scotland the Brave. Hopefully next week I’ll have pipes to blow into!
In Which Noah plays Amazing Grace at my Father’s Grave
On the two year anniversary of my father’s death, my mom asked Noah to play. He is buried at Fort Jackson in Columbia SC where he practiced dentistry for the V.A. Continue reading “In Which Noah plays Amazing Grace at my Father’s Grave”