A FOUNDER of the Kintyre Piping Society (KPS), in 1951, who passed away on the ‘best day of his life’ in Stornoway, earlier this year, will be honoured tomorrow at Springbank’s Invitational Piping Competition.
On the event programme’s front page, KPS president, John Lang Brown, wrote: ‘For more than 60 years Willie dedicated a large part of his life to promote piping and in particular, his great love of the Piobaireachd in his beloved Kintyre.
‘As KPS secretary he generously gave his time and shared his wealth of knowledge to better the society and bring it to the fore of the piping world.