Donald's recital was the last of the winter series which took off in January with Roddy Macleod. This recital took place in Dingwall Town Hall, a large hall, slightly on the cool side at first but soon warmed up. Donald has a very friendly and informal style and chatted to the audience between sessions. His piobaireachd was the Earl of Antrim, and very enjoyable it was too, played on a set of Henderson drones. The second session he changed over to a set of Lawrie's for strathspeys and reels, hormpipes and jigs. All very enjoyable on good sounding pipes.
Young Niall Jack from Culbokie played two sessions of 15-20 minutes on a set of McCallums with a very nice tone. Niall is an accomplished player and plays for fun rather than competition, which I have a deal of sympathy for.
Turnout was good for a very wet 24hours in this part of Scotland and now we look forward to the restart of recitals in the month of October.
