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2025 Margo Naismith Memorial Highland Dance Competition Held
On March 15, 2025, the Margo Naismith Naismith Memorial Highland Dance Competition was held in beautiful Balboa Park in downtown San Diego, CA. Winners of the special awards of the day included: The Margo Naismith Dance – Off Scarlett Morris Mallory Reich Sophia DeMaagd The C. Steward Smith Dance – Off Caleigh Santa Maria Weston […]
2024 San Diego Highland Games Awards Announced
The winner of the 2024 Campbell J. Naismith Amateur Pibroch Award is Malachi Johannsen. The winner of the 2024 James Naismith Memorial Targe is Seamus Coyne. The winner of the 2024 San Diego Highland Games Margo Naismith Memorial Award is Scarlett Morris.
2024 Mathematics Scholarships Awarded
Cris Moya, winner of the 2024 Campbell Naismith Mathematics Award at Chula Vista High School, donated through the generosity of Chang Lee. Kimmy Dang, winner of the 2024 Irene Naismith Mathematics Award from Crawford High School.
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Research Project Completion
Vortex Street Music is proud to announce the debut of Joseph MacDonald's A Complete Theory of the Scots Highland Bagpipe transcribed into a modern layout with both the text and music typeset reworked electronically into a more accessible format.
Joseph MacDonald created a collection of piobaireachd and of Gaelic airs at the age of twenty-three which would eventually be published posthumously with the Gaelic Airs in 1784 and the Theory in 1803. This work includes some of the earliest analysis of the structure of bagpipe musical tradition that anyone had ever attempted. For further information and to read the work itself please click on the this link to view or download the .pdf of the modern collection by Vortex Street Music.