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Kiwi search for L-D's intensifies with Auckland & District joining the hunt
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May 20, 2013 |
The pursuit of leading-drummers in New Zealand, with the Grade 1 Auckland & District competing with rivals ILT City of Invercargill for recruiting talent to run the back-end of the band. Auckland & District has found itself looking for a new lead-tip following the retirement of Glenn Miller . . .
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Prairie Piping Invitational Draws Full House
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May 20, 2013 |
The revived Prairie Piping Invitational drew roughly 100 people for two hours of excellent piping. Organized by the Saskatchewan Highland Gathering & Celtic Festival, and sponsored by the City of Regina Pipe Band, the event featured six professional players . . .
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Large crowds for Moose Jaw and Regina weekend
Published:
May 20, 2013 |
The Saskatchewan Highland Gathering & Celtic Festival took place in great weather, and despite a smaller-than-usual entry of bands and soloists, the games drew enthusiastic crowds of spectators to see the variety of offerings in both venues.
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Jack Wield, 1950-2013
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May 18, 2013 |
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Rubber-sleeved skin pipe bags a first for Highland pipes
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May 16, 2013 |
Only last September Lee & Sons Bagpipes introduced zippered sheepskin and goatskin pipe bags, and now the . . .
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Boghall's Fiona Morris determined to win
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May 14, 2013 |
With the Grade 1 Boghall & Bathgate Caledonia, tenor drummer Fiona Morris of Kinross, Scotland, is used to being determined to beat . . .
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Celtic Fest goes Transvaal's way; African Skye surges
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May 14, 2013 |
Transvaal Scottish, or "The Jocks" as they are commonly known, continued their unbeaten season by winning both the Grade 2 MSR and the Medley at the annual Celtic Fest at Modder Sports Complex in Modderfontein, Johannesburg. African Skye . . .
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Large turnout for last 2013 Ontario indoor
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May 12, 2013 |
The Ottawa Branch of the Pipers and Pipe Band Society of Ontario held its annual indoor games at St. Michael’s Catholic High School in Kemptville, and 139 amateur solo competitors and 11 bands registered for the conclusion of the local . . .
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Gourock nixed due to swampage
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May 11, 2013 |
The spirits of many have been dampened after the 2013 Gourock Highland Games were cancelled, nixing the first Scottish outdoor . . .
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Shotts unveils new look for 2013 with revamped roster, logo and website
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May 09, 2013 |
What a difference a year makes for the storied Shotts & Dykehead Caledonia Pipe Band of Scotland as the historic band enters the 2013 season . . .
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Showtime: Scottish season gets going Saturday, Sunday at Dunbar, Gourock
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May 08, 2013 |
After a long, cold, lonely winter, the Scottish outdoor pipe band season gets started across all grades on May 11th and 12th at Dunbar and Gourock . . .
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Brown Clasp goes to Callum Beaumont
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May 06, 2013 |
Callum Beaumont won the Clasp event at the annual R.U. Brown Piobaireachd Society Solo Piping Competitions held at Black Friars Priory School, where . . .
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Roddy MacLeod: the pipes|drums Interview – Part 3
Published:
May 05, 2013 |
In the third instalment of our exclusive interview with Roddy MacLeod, the Director of the National Piping Centre and the Piping Live! Glasgow International Festival of Piping discusses in detail the relationship with Glasgow's College of Piping. He looks back to the origins of the Piping Centre, when the late Seumas MacNeill had a central role in its beginnings, only to fall out over a leadership disagreement. In Part 3, among many other topics, MacLeod takes an inward look at his career, and his professional contributions to the art.
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No Montreal games in 2013, but promises return next year
Published:
May 03, 2013 |
The resurrected and popular Montreal Highland Games & Celtic Festival and its legendary beer tent will not happen in 2013 after . . .
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pipetunes.ca presents . . . Tune of the Month: "Colin Mackay," a classic hornpipe from teenage fingers
Published:
May 02, 2013 |
Jim McGillivray continues his exclusive series with Reay Mackay's hornpipe, composed as a kid in 1954. Subscribers to pipes|drums can enjoy the original manuscript of the tune, a classic image of a very young Reay Mackay with Colin Mackay, and instructional scores and sound files of McGillivray on the Deger pipe.
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Transvaal victorious at Amanzimtoti
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April 30, 2013 |
Transvaal Scottish continued their winning streak by taking the first South African Championship points of the season at the South Coast Highland Gathering at Hutcheson Park in Amanzimtoti on the south coast of Durban on a sunny autumn day with temperatures reaching 30 degrees . . .
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Jack, Terry Lee to receive honorary doctorates from Simon Fraser University
Published:
April 29, 2013 |
Simon Fraser University Pipe Band leaders Terry Lee and Jack Lee will have more than great . . .
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Atlantic Piob hosted by College of Piping
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April 29, 2013 |
The College of Piping played host to the annual Atlantic Piobaireachd Challenge while the Antigonish Highland Society's attentions were on the 150th anniversary of the Antigonish Highland Games this year. Seventeen competed in the various grades, and all contestants had to submit tunes set for this year's major gatherings. Jack Lee judged all events and conducted a workshop the following day.
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Brandon returns
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April 28, 2013 |
The Brandon Highland Festival this year marked the return of the event after a year off, and also the 20th anniversary of the City of Regina Pipe Band, whose first-ever band contest was the same event in 1993. The Grade 2 St. Andrew's Society of Winnipeg Pipe Band was unable to make the event.
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Frater sails through RSPS contest
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April 28, 2013 |
John Frater was the overall winner of the annual Royal Scottish Pipers Society Competition held at the organization's rooms on Rose Street Lane South in the heart of Edinburgh. The event is reserved for RSPS members, all of whom do not usually compete and never for prize-money.
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pipes|drums reports: Associations' dues, fees and communications
Published:
April 27, 2013 |
We take a look at 15 of the world's most active pipe band associations and compare the dues that they charge to pipe bands and/or individuals and the charges for entry into collective competitions and/or single events. We also consider online entry and how they communicate with their members. The result is an illuminating summary of a wide array of costs, with one organization looking for a band of 35 pipers and drummers to pay more than $1,500 just to compete on their circuit during a calendar year.
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While Kingston Festival rises, PPBSO says no thank you
Published:
April 25, 2013 |
The Kingston Scottish Festival continues to grow to the point of being bigger than at least two other full outdoor Highland games on the Ontario competitive piping and drumming . . .
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Free-falling for sweet laser F's
Published:
April 21, 2013 |
Pat Lynch reviews "Forte – Live at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall," the new DVD by the Boghall & Bathgate Caledonia Pipe Band of their August 2012 Pre-World's Concert performance
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Fifth Kingdom Thistle Solos draws more than 400 listeners
Published:
April 20, 2013 |
The fifth annual Kingdom Thistle Solo Piping & Drumming Championships were held again at Lochgelly High School, with competitors coming from far and wide for the event. A tenor drumming event was introduced this year. Overall Open champions were Emmett Conway in solo piping and Aaron McLean in solo snare drumming, with both competitors travelling to Fife from Northern Ireland. Organizers counted 189 combined performances and a total audience of more than 400 turning out on the day . . .
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Invercargill on the hunt for L-D and success in Grade 1
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April 18, 2013 |
The ILT City of Invercargill of New Zealand is one of the oldest pipe bands in the antipodes and, with several years in Grade 2, was recently . . .
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