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This auction will feature over 900 quality lots from the life time collection of Frank & Patty Olszowka from Waterford ON. Piping Live! Glasgow’s International Piping Festival runs from August 8 to 14.ONLINE ONLY FRANK & PATTY OLSZOWKA OUTSTANDING COLLECTIONĪt the SHACKELTON AUCTION CENTRE - #51570 Lyons Line Springfield Ontario N0L 2J0 – located 15kms south of the 401 HWY on the Putnam Rd. Some come for the more traditional masters solo piping competition, but there’s also contemporary traditional music and a pipe band quartet competition.” “The festival brings 50,000 people into the city every year. “It’s probably the biggest concentration of amateur pipers in the world,” she says. She’s also involved with Piping Live!, Glasgow’s International Piping Festival, where she organises the family day and an amateur piping competition. Now, the couple have two sons, aged four and six, and are well-rooted in Glasgow.ĭunn has temporarily scaled back on competitions and performances, while her boys are young, instead focusing on teaching new pipers of all ages and levels of ability, both male and female. Having come from a musical family it’s perhaps not surprising that Dunn, who was born Margaret Houlihan, met her match in another top solo piper, Alastair Dunn from Newtownards, Co Down.
However, Dunn is keen to acknowledge other great female pipers who are making inroads into the culture surrounding the instrument they love Faye Henderson from Kirriemuir, for example, who became the first female winner of the Highland Society of London gold medal at the Argyllshire Gathering, as well as one of the youngest ever winners of a gold medal, aged 18, in 2010. In 2008, Dunn became the first woman to play on the Former Winners March Strathspey and Reel competition stage at the Argyllshire Gathering in Oban. People think you have to be very big to play the bagpipes, but I’ve seen big people who can’t hold a note steady.” Dunn, who teaches at the National Piping Centre in Glasgow, says that this simply isn’t so. The tradition of pipers being exclusively male is probably connected to the military history of pipe bands, but may also be based on the perception that someone needs a lot of muscle to master the bagpipes. “The first pipe band I joined in Scotland had two girls in it out of 20 pipers.” “At the time, when I moved to Scotland, 20 years ago, if you went to a solo piping competition at the higher end of pipe bands, it was definitely male-dominated,” says Dunn. It wasn’t until 1976 that the UK’s Sexual Discrimination Act was enforced and female pipers were allowed to participate in some of the top competitions, but it took until last year before Edinburgh’s Royal Scottish Pipers Society finally voted to admit women. However, a move to Glasgow to pursue a degree in Scottish traditional music at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland at 17 saw her immersed in a male-dominated culture. “It was completely normal in Ireland to be a female piper there were often more girls than boys in the Cullen Pipe Band, so it never felt as though I was doing something particularly unusual,” says Dunn.
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