With the inaugural Renfrew Pipe Band Competitors set to get underway immediately the efforts of its organisers and members have been praised in parliament.
The occasion is happening in Robertson Park between midday and 5pm and it'll see pipe bands from throughout the nation competing in opposition to each other.
In addition to the pipers, spectators will have the ability to get pleasure from free household leisure, aerial workshops, a farmer's market, meals village, and extra on the free occasion.
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Russell Findlay, the Conservative and Unionist West of Scotland MSP, raised a movement in Holyrood on Wednesday, July 20 to recognise the occasion.
His movement reads: “That the parliament recognises the inaugural Renfrew Pipe Band Competitors, which takes place on 23 July 2022; welcomes the brand new occasion, which is free to attend at Robertson Park, Renfrew; notes the participation of native bands together with Renfrewshire Faculties, Paisley and District RBL Pipe Band, Kilbarchan Pipe Band and others from elsewhere in Scotland; additional notes that organisers will present different leisure together with a meals village and farmers' market; appreciates what it sees because the significance of piping as an integral a part of Scottish cultural heritage; congratulates the occasion’s chieftain, the poet Shaun Moore, who's the Tannahill Makar for Renfrewshire, and desires good luck to everybody within the competitors.”
Commenting on the occasion, Shaun Moore mentioned: "It is a large honour to have been requested to be Chieftain on the first pipe band competitors in Renfrew.
"As a member of the native artistic neighborhood I get pleasure from making hyperlinks with performers from different disciplines and sharing within the nice work all of us do to showcase expertise in our native space and encourage wellbeing and pleasure in our communities.
"I understand how large a day it's for the opponents and the way a lot preparation they will have put in and I am wanting ahead to becoming a member of them for what I am positive will probably be a improbable time out."
Free parking for the occasion is obtainable at Trinity Excessive College and at St James Major College, that are each a 5/ten minute stroll from Robertson Park.
Public transport to Robertson Park can also be obtainable, with numerous bus stops conveniently situated in Inchinnan Street and Paisley Street.
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