PICTURES: Trophies are well spread out in first two days of Caithness Music Festival
Ninety-eight trophies are being contested at this year’s Caithness Music Festival and organisers say they are pleased to see the silverware being well spread out across the county so far.
The long-established annual event got under way on Monday at the Assembly Rooms in Wick.
Festival secretary Audrey MacKinnon said: “It has been going very well. We’ve had big groups and classes so the hall has been pretty full, and has had to be emptied and refilled.
“Unfortunately because of that it means we don’t have as many seats for parents, but we’ve been able to get people in to watch their own classes and then maybe leave so we can get other people in.
“The winners are from all over, it’s not the same schools all the time that are getting trophies. That makes it nice as well, and the adjudicators are absolutely delighted with the standard.
“We had a shared trophy for one of the groups – that doesn’t normally happen. They both got 87 marks.”
One trophy, the Flo Dixie Cup for school choirs, P1-3, is a century old this year. It will be competed for on Friday.
Mrs MacKinnon is in her 50th year of involvement in the festival. She has been on committee for 38 years, most of that time as secretary.
She said: “I love the whole atmosphere of the festival, especially in the mornings when you’ve got all the children and they’re all dressed up and they’re so excited. It’s lovely.”
Results:
Monday – Popular song, P6/7: 1 Noss P6; 2eq Newton Park P7 and Pennyland P6/7. Choral speaking, rural schools: 1 Castletown P6/7; 2eq Lybster P1-7 and Thrumster P4-7. Choral speaking, town schools: 1 Pennyland P3; 2 Noss P7.
Strings, grade 7 and above: 1 Bekah Bullivant, Caithness. Strings, grade 1: 1 Caalin Rosie, Noss; 2 Theo Eves, Watten; 3eq Emily Mackay, Farr, and Skye MacKenzie, Pennyland. Strings, grade 3: 1 Beth McColm, Halkirk.
Strings, grade 4: 1 Izzy Alexander, Wick High; 2eq Victoria Fryett, Reay, and Lewis Lee, Thurso High. Strings, grade 5: 1 Liam Bruce, Wick High. Strings, grade 6: 1 Claire McAdam, Wick; 2 Olivia Singh, Thurso.
Piano preliminary, pre-grade 1: 1 Josselin Sutherland, Lybster; 2eq Lily Macadie, Wick High, and Maggie Vines, Thurso High. Piano grade 1: 1 Archie Tait, Noss; 2eq Izzy Alexander, Wick High, and Lily Sutherland, Wick. Piano grade 2: 1 Rory Davidson, Noss; 2eq Raegan Ross, Wick High, and Hanna Sandecka, Newton Park.
Piano grade 3: 1 Samuel McColm, Halkirk. Piano grade 4: 1 Susan Armstrong, Wick High.
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Poem, girls P6: 1 Iona Bain, Dunbeath; 2 Amy Andrews, Pennyland; 3 Molly MacAuslan, Dunbeath. Poem, boys P6: 1 Oliver Hall, Dunbeath; 2eq Ian Campbell, Newton Park, and Alex Vines, Mount Pleasant.
Poem, girls P7: 1 Emily Mackenzie, Noss; 2 Martha Potts; 3 Victoria Fryett, Reay. Poem, boys P7: 1 Sam Miller, Pennyland.
Poem, girls S1-2: 1 Emily Sutherland, Thurso High. Poem, girls P5: 1 Lois Gray, Castletown; 2 Lauryn Sutherland, Reay; 3 Daisy Mackenzie, Noss, and Esther Spratt, Melvich. Poem, boys P5: 1 Archie Tait, Noss; 2eq Joshua Mackenzie, Noss, and Matthew Anderson, Noss.
Trophies – Eann Nicolson Shield: Noss P6. Miss Mary Webster Shield: Castletown P6/7. Caithness Glass Company Bowl: Pennyland P3.
Fiona Shearer Shield: Bekah Bullivant. Macdonald Shield: Caalin Rosie. Jack Duncan Memorial Shield: Beth McColm.
Mentiplay Shield: Claire McAdam. Katrina Geddes Shield: Rory Davidson. Johnstone Shield: Samuel McColm.
Wick Town Improvements Shield: Iona Bain. Mark Smith Shield: Oliver Hall. Edgar Cup: Emily Mackenzie.
Dorothy Cup: Emily Sutherland. Stroma Cup: Lois Gray and Archie Tait (joint winners). Thurso and District Round Table Shield: Emily Mackenzie.
Tuesday – Dramatised song, P3/4 and under, schools with four or more teachers: 1eq Newton Park P2 and Pennyland P2/3. Dramatised song, P4 and over, schools with four or more teachers: 1 Mount Pleasant P6/7.
Dramatised song, P3/4 and under, schools with one to three teachers: 1 Reay P1-3; 2eq Lybster P1-3 and Watten P1-3. Dramatised song, P4 and over, schools with one to three teachers: 1 Reay P4-7; 2eq Bower P1-7 and Lybster P3-5.
Vocal solo, boys S3-S6: 1 Charles Fryett. Thurso High; 2 Charlie Denley-Spencer, Thurso High. Vocal solo, girls S3-S6: 1 Faith Charlton, Thurso High; 2eq Susan Armstrong, Music Monster; Kirsty Bartlett, Thurso High; Olivia Murton-Armer, Wick.
Duet S1-S2: 1 Rosie Mackay and Ava-Jay Campbell, Thurso High. Duet S3-S6: Ava Curlis and Charles Fryett, Thurso High.
