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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.
The Rising Sun Collection Published & The YouTube Gallery Addon Added to Website
The Rising Sun Collection by Campbell Naismith is proudly presented by Vortex Street Music. The book is a collection of quotes from the Martial and Pastoral Music of the Clans as described by Joseph MacDonald in the 1760’s and commentary by Campbell Naismith. Additionally, the book contains twenty four original Pibrochs by Campbell Naismith that reflect these thoughts and […]
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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.