Shona MacFadyen all set to take the stage at this year’s Glenfiddich Piping & Fiddle Championships

Shona MacFadyen from West Kilbride is all set to rock this year’s Glenfiddich Piping & Fiddle Championships, due to be held on Saturday, 31st October at Blaircastle, Blair Atholl, Perthshire.

The Glenfiddich Piping Championship was established in 1974 to inspire and stimulate the world’s finest individual pipers, and to seek the best overall exponents of ceol mor or piobaireachd (the great music) and ceol beag (the little music). Every year, it sees the world’s finest pipe and fiddle players battle it out for Scottish traditional music’s ultimate accolade. The winners of solo piping and fiddle competitions last year were both won by Scots- and this year, our eyes are on our very own home grown talent Shona MacFayden, 22, to see if she will be the one to keep the trophies in Scotland this time around.

Shona had been invited to the competition for the last three years as well, so she is hardly a newcomer. “This is my fourth year competing in the championships and although I am a little nervous about it at the moment I have my fingers crossed that I will do well on the day,” she said to the Ardrossan and Saltcoats Herald.