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Stuart Easton continued his strong year with a win of both piobaireachd and Light music events at the New Zealand Invitational Claidhmor & Targe Solo Piping Competition held at the Celtic Inn Pub . . .
Tie with Winnipeg Police broken by ensemble in Grade 2 band event . . .
he North Stratton Pipe Band of Edmonton emerged as the overall winner of the Grade 2 event at day one of the Saskatchewan Highland Gathering & Celtic Festival. Thirteen bands competed in near-perfect conditions in Victoria Park . . .
Paisley, Scotland – May 19, 2018 – Fourteen Grade 1 bands competed for the British Championship and, in the end, it was ScottishPower that carried the day at St. James Playing Fields, in a high-standard contest that foreshadowed a very competitive season ahead. The win was the first major championship […]
The Fair Hill Scottish Games kicked off with a Friday night Professional Solo Piping contest at the Newark United Methodist Church, where 15 competed . . .
The first insallment of our exclusive five-part conversation with one of Highland piping’s greatest . . .
The invited soloists for the Captain John A. MacLellan MBE Memorial Trust Dinner on Sunday, August 26, have been confirmed, featuring two former winners, three who live in Edinburgh and, for the first time, a Canadian . . .
The Royal Scottish Pipers’ Society only a few years ago voted to permit females as members of the 120-year-old amateur piping organization and at this year’s RSPS Annual Competition Mary MacPherson made history by become the first woman contestant.
The lead-up to the fifteenth anniversary edition of the Piping Live! Glasgow International Piping Festival kicked off by rolling out a tartan carpet for Weegies to walk on the city’s iconic Buchanan Street, a photo-op to underscore the August 13-19 event that organizers expect to attract more than 40,000 . . .
The Royal Burgh of Annan last year got a promotion to Grade 3A after winning the RSPBA Champion of Champions title in Grade 3B, and the band started its 2018 season by beating certified Grade 2 bands and winning the piping in Grade 2.
Reigning World Champions Inveraray & District started the 2018 Scottish Grade 1 season with a win at the Gourock Highland Games, the first contested event of the year for the top grade.
MacKenzie Caledonian bands win Grade 1, Grade 2 and Grade 4B . . .
Aggregate winner of the 2018 William Livingstone Sr. Memorial Professional Invitational Solo Piping Competition, held for the fortieth time.
The 2018 Northern Ireland outdoor pipe band competition season began under fine sunny weather at Castle Park, where Field Marshal Montgomery won the Grade 1 contest against four other bands, including Scotland’s Vale of Atholl.