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Allan Russell won three events and was second in the other for a superlative day at the Cupar Highland Games . . .
The Wellington Pipers Club held the 62nd annual Brown Cup and Everest piobaireachd events at the Royal New Zealand Police College . . .
The 78th Fraser Highlanders hung on to win the Grade 1 competition on ensemble preference, but the big story of the day was the Grade 2 Ottawa Police Services finishing second in the Grade 1 event, taking two firsts in piping . . .
Stormont, Northern Ireland – June 14, 2014 – Field Marshal Montgomery won the innagural UK Championships at Stormont, Northern Ireland, near Belfast, continuing the band’s run of consecutive RSPBA major titles, now at seven. The UK Championships took the place of the Cowal Championships on the RSPBA rotation of majors. […]
Jean Campbell of Glasgow was made a Member of the British Empire for services to piping on this year’s annual Queen’s Birthday Honours List . . .
The RSPBA might claim to be the world’s biggest and most powerful pipe band association, but it will never be the oldest. That honour belongs to . . .
The southeastern United States lost one of the legendary and groundbreaking characters of its comparatively short pipe band history . . .
The Grade 4 Wake & District Public Safety Pipes & Drums of Raleigh, North Carolina, has made known to the Eastern United States Pipe Band Association that it intends to move up . . .
Simon Fraser University won both Grade 1 events and Andrew Bonar swept the Professional Solo Piping at the annual Bellingham Games . . .
Roddy MacLeod of Glasgow won the annual Donald MacDonald Quaich, an invitational competition that features the music of the great piper . . .
Series of mobile applications promise basic introduction to the playing and music of Highland pipes . . .
The University of New Brunswick in Fredericton is taking an unusual interest in the classical music of the Highland pipe . . .
We continue our extensive reunion interview with eight former members of one of history’s most important pipe bands.
African Skye makes it four wins in four contests, taking the De la Salle Highland Gathering, and the Transvaal Scottish drum section remains unbeaten . . .
William Geddes won both events in the open senior solo piping at the annual Markinch Highland Games . . .
Field Marshal Montgomery won the British Pipe Band Championship, the first of the five RSPBA majors in 2014. The band finished on top in the 12-band medley contest . . .