Archive

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 . . .

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 . . .