ONE of the world’s top bagpipe adjudicators will judge the Victorian Pipe Band Championships at the weekend’s Geelong Highland Gathering.
John Wilson has been playing the bagpipes since he was six and had won so many competitions by the time he was 14 that he started competing in senior competitions.
He later won every major Scottish solo piping award before becoming pipe sergeant of the Strathclyde Police Pipe Band between 1981-90, when the band won eight consecutive world championships.
Mr Wilson, who retired in 2003 and is now an adjudicator for the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association panel, is just one of the highland gathering’s many attractions.
Saturday’s event will also include clan tents, the Australian Haggis Hurling Championships, massed pipe bands, Scottish folk bands and singers and children’s entertainment ranging from face painting to a farmyard nursery.
There will be crafts, souvenirs, food vendors, vintage cars, woodchopping competitions and highland dancing as well as plenty of stalls.
Entry to Queens Park costs $12 for adults or $30 for a family of two adults and two children.
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