Inveraray and District Pipe Band takes the 2022 Grade One British Championship

Inveraray and District takes the 2022 Grade One British Championship Pipe Band Championship at Battery Park on Saturday 21 May 2022.

This was a medley competition and the tunes played by the band were:

Old woman's dance
I have it somewhere
Cafe René
Leaving Ireland
Willie Gray
The fiddler's joy
Broadford Bay, and
Dunrovin farm

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