FIRST HOUSE DINNER

Monday 16^th November 2026 at 7:15pm

Glasgow Art Club, 185 Bath Street, Glasgow

An evening’s dining and entertainment including

Chris Coates and Kerr McQuillan of People’s Ford Boghall and Bathgate Caledonia Pipe Band

Of note, Kerr is the 2026 and current RSPBA adult World Solo Drumming Champion winning both the March Strathspey and Reel, and the Hornpipe and Jig sections, accompanied by Chris.  He also became the RSPBA International Solo Drumming Circuit Champion having picked up the Scottish, European and World Championships this year.  All of which makes him the Champion of Champions.

PIOBAIREACHD SEMINAR

Saturday 21^st November 2026 at 10:00am and Sunday morning to 12.00pm

Royal Northern & Clyde Yacht Club, Rhu

with instruction by the Club Piper, Roddy MacLeod MBE

LECTURE NIGHT – Richard McLauchlan, author

Tuesday 24th November at 7:00pm

The Glasgow High School Club Memorial Pavilion, Anniesland Road, Glasgow

“The Bagpipes: A Cultural History“

"Richard McLauchlan is a Scottish writer with a passion for making the past live vividly in the present, and for exploring the intellectual and cultural traditions of the West.” 

“His new book is the first accessible cultural history of the instrument ever to be written. It aims to change the prevailing perceptions of this strange conflation of bag and sticks, showing the instrument's remarkable diversity and ubiquity, as well as trying to understand its continuing capacity to evoke the deepest responses in the human person."