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June 20, 2025

We continue our exclusive five-part pipes|drums Interview with Eric Rigler of Los Angeles, by far the most-heard Celtic musician in history. In Part 1 of the pipes|drums Interview with Los Angeles native Eric Rigler, he discussed his early years and the factors that led him to want to move to Scotland to study piping and […]

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June 19, 2025

Matt Fraser hopes to make practice a win-win for pipers and drummers who want to gain an edge using his MusoLink app. The pipe-major of Grade 1 Hawthorn of Melbourne, Australia, launched the MusoLink app last November, and now, as the World Championships and other big-time competitions approach for bands […]

June 18, 2025

Exclusively for subscribers, an in-depth and insightful assessment of the latest full-length pipe band recording.

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June 17, 2025

We’re pleased to present videos of the Grade 2 competition and Grade 1 performance at the Georgetown Highland Games on June 14, 2025.

June 16, 2025

It’s probably purely coincidental that the Commonwealth Pipes & Drums logo features a Minuteman, a Revolutionary War private soldier ready to fight for fair representation. Still, after a six-month process, the Massachusetts-based band will be permitted to compete at the 2025 World Championships as the Grade 3A group they are under the Eastern United States Pipe Band Association, the band’s home association.

Moira Demesne, a park in the picturesque village of Moira, Northern Ireland, was the venue for the 2025 Lisburn & Castlereagh Championships, the latest event in the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association Northern Ireland Branch circuit of competitions.

June 15, 2025

Ulster Scottish from Philadelphia was the top winner at the 2025 Chicago Highland Games, the Midwest Pipe Band Association’s largest sanctioned event of the year, and one of the biggest pipe band competitions by the number of contestants outside of the United Kingdom. Thirty-nine bands competed in sunny weather at DuPage County Fairgrounds.

After a tie was broken by the ensemble mark, Peoples Ford Boghall & Bathgate Caledonia won the first Edinburgh Pipe Band Competition, held at George Watson’s College, and put on by the Lothians & Borders Branch of the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association.

Father’s Day 2025 is the perfect time to officially announce the new “Gandy Bagpipe” by McCallum Bagpipes, an exact reproduction of the 1939 instrument played for many years by Ray Gandy in Victoria, British Columbia, then by Bruce Gandy and, most recently, by Alex Gandy. That makes three generations of Gandy […]

June 14, 2025

Immaculately sunny, breezy and warm weather benefited the 50th anniversary Georgetown Highland Games, where Florida’s City of Dunedin won Grade 2 against three other bands in the top competitive event.

June 13, 2025

King Charles III has made Northern Ireland’s George Ussher of Lisburn, Northern Ireland, a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) and Roderick Buchanan of Lochgilphead, Scotland, and Angus Tulloch of Kingussie, Scotland, Members of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2025 King’s Birthday Honours. […]

In the 25 years since the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and the National Piping Centre introduced a Bachelor of Arts Music Degree Course in Highland pipes, many musically accomplished and highly educated pipers have gone on to make a career with their art, including Steven Blake, John Dew, Ross Miller, […]

June 12, 2025

The Mid Ulster Championships were held in excellent weather at Cookstown High School, and it was Closkelt that came out ahead of Ravara, which marked its return to Grade 1 following the band’s upgrade after the 2024 season.

June 11, 2025

We checked in with Inveraray & District pipers Connor Jardine and Ross Miller for a natter about the celebration, which promises to be one of the most memorable parties in pipe band history.

June 10, 2025

The Bellingham Scottish Gathering near the USA-Canada border typically sees several Canadian bands make the journey, but this year, none attended the event at Marine Park, although several amateur solo pipers made the quick trip across the boundary. Canadian pipe bands, so far, are not generally attending American competitions due to ongoing difficulties between the two countries.

June 9, 2025

With about eight weeks to go, the Commonwealth Pipes & Drums of Massachusetts is yet to know whether it must compete in Grade 3A or Grade 2 at the World Championships. The band took official steps almost a month ago to appeal to the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association to […]

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