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Following the 2014 UK pipe band season, the Grade 1 ScottishPower Pipe Band will be without Leading-Drummer Barry Wilson, who confirmed to pipes|drums that he will retire after 12 years with the band . . .
Andrew Carlisle of Pittsburgh was the winner of the second annual Jimmy McIntosh Piobaireachd Challenge, part of the Greenville Scottish Games . . .
The keyboardist who co-wrote and played on “Alive and Kicking” and many other hits with the 1980s Scottish pop group Simple Minds will put words into action . . .
Former Clan Gregor Pipe Band Pipe-Major George Shepherd is leading a new band in the Melbourne area built on the four-years-dormant Grade 1 Nunawading Pipe Band / Australia Highlanders . . .
The 78th Highlanders (Halifax Citadel) were the winners of both events in a two-band Grade 1 contest at the Kingston Scottish Festival . . .
About 30 pipers turned out for the annual Atholl Gathering, where cool and showery weather was not as bad as was forecast . . .
Shotts & Dykehead Caledonia made a statement by winning at Dunfermline against ScottishPower, which finished second . . .
First band in the top grade to “take delivery” of a complete set of carbon fibre drums designed and produced by Cleland Instruments . . .
We can learn from smallpipers – not those vertically challenged, but the ones who play that other bagpipe, and our man, Jim, is in fine fettle with a few solutions to an age-old tuning problem . . .
An expanded festival setting for both days provided nice crowds of spectators for the band and other events . . .
African Skye remained unbeaten in Grade 2, with wins in the MSR and Medley, winning overall for the third consecutive contest . . .
The annual Prairie Piping Invitational was held as part of the Saskatchewan Highland Gathering & Celtic Festival . . .
After the RSPBA surprisingly upgraded the EUSPBA’s Stuart Highlanders to Grade 1 last week, the spotlight turned to the Colonial Highland Games at Fair Hill . . .
Cameron Drummond has been made the new Senior Piping Instructor at Fettes College in Edinburgh, one of the United Kingdom’s most prestigious “public” schools . . .
Change of pace for the southern California contest and first trip of its kind for Glasgow-based band . . .
The RSPBA’s proactive upgrading of the Stuart Highlanders to Grade 1 will be put to an interesting test on May 17th . . .