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July 12, 2025

2025 UK Champions: St. Laurence O’Toole; Uddingston wins Grade 2; only 60 bands total

Edinburgh – June 12, 2025 – Dublin’s St. Laurence O’Toole won the 2025 UK Championships in a three-band Grade 1 MSR competition at the Royal Highland Showground in Ingliston, on the west side of Edinburgh, the first time a major RSPBA competition was held in Scotland’s capital city in decades.
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July 4, 2025

Golf: tailor-made for pipers and drummers

We continue to consider the parallels of piping and drumming and a good walk spoiled . . .
News
July 3, 2025

Johnstone on the hunt for new lead-drummer; Orr to depart after 2025 season

Grade 1 Johnstone has started a search for a new leading-drummer after Gavin Orr announced he will resign after the...
News
July 3, 2025

Third Kyle Warren music collection comes into Play this August

This August, Scotland’s Kyle Warren will release Play, his third collection of original compositions and...
Features
July 2, 2025

Gold Medallist Connor Sinclair featuring new-look Henderson pipes

As part of R.G. Hardie & Co.’s news that they’ve remodelled and narrowed their extensive line of...
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July 14, 2021
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