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Here’s the latest never-before-seen photo from our files, continuing our Throwback Thursday series of images. The stage is the Open March North American Championships at the Glengarry Highland Games at Maxville, Ontario, on August 5, 1989. The piper is Jim McGillivray, who of course is one of the world’s most […]
Piping and drumming is a rich environment for original compositions, arrangements and scores, thanks to the innate creativity of our musicians combined with the competitive need to come up with new and exciting content for competition medleys. The percussion side is creatively even richer, with virtually every drum section having […]
Sean McKeown reviews Sròmos, the new recording by James Duncan Mackenzie . . .
We continue our May 1992 interview with Ed Neigh from our archive series, exclusively for subscribers to pipes|drums, with the second and final installment. Readers can enjoy the first part here: + Ed Neigh: the pipes|drums Archive Interview – Part 1 pipes|drums: What’s the role of a drum corps? Ed Neigh: The drum corps is […]
Well, here we go. A new pipes|drums website and everyone’s morning go-to looks a little different. Change is always hard, and and especially for solo piping and pipe band folk. We’ll just keep our families judging us, and our teachers judging us, and please don’t share any money you made […]
We were pleased a week ago today, for at least the seventh time, to bring you the latest online reiteration of pipes|drums. Since 1996, when it was the first real online publication for pipers and drummers, we’ve steadily built this labour-of-love into what it is today, and, now, just as […]
Grade 2 will be more competitive by numbers than Grade 1 on the Ontario circuit after the Pipers & Pipe Band Society of Ontario approved a request by the Hamilton Police to move up. The upgrade follows the appointment of former Grade 1 pipe-major John Elliott as leader of Hamilton […]
Glasgow – March 10, 2018 – The annual Duncan Johnstone Memorial Competition for solo pipers graded B or C by the Competing Pipers Association was held again in the auditorium of the National Piping Centre. Steven Leask and Ross Miller won the B-Grade Piobaireachd and MSR, respectively, while Ciaren Ross […]
Rotorua, New Zealand – March 10, 2018 – The New Zealand Police Pipe Band took eight out of eight first place rankings to win the 2018 New Zealand Pipe Band Championship against four other bands. The victory was the culmination of a consistently excellent year for the band, as they […]
The holder of the Clasp, the current Glenfiddich Champion, the 2017 Inverness Silver Star and Dunvegan Silver Chanter winner, and the reigning medal-holder are all on tap to perform in the Captain John MacLellan Memorial Dinner Recital Competition at the Caledonian Waldorf-Astoria in Edinburgh on August 26th, smack-dab in between […]
We hope that you are enjoying our exciting new design that showcases our best content in a whole new light! Please note a few important changes coming up, as well as a sign-up process for our email newsletters and information messages. Important Changes Several improvements are being made to 1) […]
It started 22 years ago with the launch of the online version of pipes|drums, the first and for many years only digital publication for pipers and drummers. And, today, we are pleased and proud to bring you the latest iteration of the world’s most popular online magazine for our growing […]
Our May 1992 interview with Ed Neigh sticks in the mind. We remember driving our two-door white Toyota Tercel through the spring evening following another interminably cold winter, only a few weeks before another Ontario piping and drumming season would begin, 70 miles west of the city of Toronto to small-town Ontario. The interview took […]
You guys, I’m worried. It’s been swirling around in my head for a while now, as I move from one season to the next, seeing dwindling numbers at our contests, our concerts, our ceilidhs, and it’s time to understand why.
Our readers often have the best ideas. We were recently contacted by Alex Gandy of Halifax, Nova Scotia. Many know Alex as the pipe-major of the Grade 1 78th Highlanders (Halifax Citadel) Pipe Band, as well as one of the world’s top-flight pipers. Still only 29, he was won a raft of big prizes. Alex […]
The Style Guy has been busy perusing letters, opening emails, and gazing longingly at old photos of some of his style icons: Pipe-Major Angus, D.R. McLennan and, of course, the uber-dapper John David Burgess. Let’s see what answers the messages request and, for the first one, what the cat dragged […]