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April 13, 2025

Angus MacPhee overall 2025 SPA Solo Piping champion

The annual solo piping competition run by the Scottish Pipers Association was held at the National Piping Centre, and...
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April 12, 2025

Chatsworth launches All-England Championships Solo Piping, offering prize purse of nearly £3500

For almost 50 years, the Chatsworth Country Fair just south of the southern Scottish border has been one of the...
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April 11, 2025

Maket Collective looking for more ambassadors

Only about nine months after the initiative was launched, the National Piping Centre is hoping to expand its Maket...
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April 10, 2025

Opinion: Associations that go beyond competition can further the art and keep members involved

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March 25, 2024
After 30-year hiatus Kenny MacLeod emerges to win AD&G Branch competition
Kenny MacLeod is one of few pipers in history to have competed playing a bagpipe they made. At the annual indoor...
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April 20, 1974
Willie McCallum wins under 18 piobaireachd, Campbeltown.
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