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Two ambitious one-day piping and drumming workshops within 50 kilometres of one another in Ontario this spring have worked hard . . .
The 21st annual Queen Mary Scottish Festival once again marked the first outdoor event of the piping and drumming season for the western United States, with temperatures in the upper twenties. Sixteen bands and more than 125 solo competitors . . .
Kaitlin Kimove of Stoney Creek, Ontario, was the big winner at the Metro Express Amateur Competition, taking both of the Grade 1 events. The event was the start of the Metro Express workshop weekend, which also features the Metro Cup professional solo piping events on February 15th.
For subscribers only, Colin MacLellan reviews “Ascension – Live at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall,”the new double CD package by the Inveraray & District Pipe Band, and awards the project a rating rarely given to any recording or product reviewed on pipes|drums..
Under new direction the Cobourg Highland Games returned in 2013 to the Ontario competition circuit in a big way by flying . . .
One of the world’s most creative solo piping competitions returns bigger and better for the Scottish off-season with the 2014 edition of the Pipe-Majors Wheel of Fortune . . .
pipes|drums is pleased to bring viewers and listeners the second of our Hot Stove League videos from the 2013 Pipes+Drums Recital at the 2013 Piping Live! Glasgow International Festival of Piping, featuring Pipe-Major Duncan Nicholson and Leading-Drummer Eric Ward of the Grade 1 Greater Glasgow Police Scotland Pipe Band. The leaders performed to a standing-room only crowd that gathered at the Street Café outside of the National Piping Centre, with listeners spilling out of the tent to watch two of the world’s most talented exponents of the art in a free performance.
The Red Hot Chilli Pipers are used to enjoying success and popularity, but a video of the band covering Avicii’s hit, “Wake Me Up,” . . .
We resume our exclusive pipes|drums Interview with Jack Lee, one of history’s greatest Highland pipers, in the fourth part for subscribers to the magazine. In this installment, Lee delves into his solo piping career and even talks about his perhaps apocryphal reputation for games-day intensity, his legendary 1981 Silver Star MSR at the Northern Meeting, and his surprising practice routine.
t’s a New Year, and The Style Guy emerges from his hibernation hut on the beaches of Borneo to consider a few messages that washed up in bottles from the sartorially befuddled, bemused and bemoaning hundred-billion casatways looking for a home for their very own special look. Let’s see if the always impeccable TSG can help these poor huddled messes . . .
The 2014 Metro Cup Piping Competition will be the latest international event that Scotland’s National Piping Centre will stream live on the Internet in a pay-per-view format, pipes|drums has . . .
The 17th annual Irish Piobaireachd Society competition was held in in the shadow of the Kilworth Hills, the inspiration for the great G.S. McLennan march. With sponsorship from R.G. Hardie . . .
A new pipes|drums series especially for subscribers to the magazine, the renowned piper, teacher, composer and adjudicator Jim McGillivray provides insight into the often hidden fundamentals of the Highland bagpipe.
Greg Wilson was named 2014 New Zealand Champion by winning the Piobaireachd and the March in the A-Grade solo piping at the Turakina Highland Games. Conditions were hot and dry all day.
After a collective 30 years as leader of the Pleasanton / Santa Rosa games in California, Bill Merriman has retired, handing over the job . . .
In an attempt to deal with large entries and time constraints for its Professional Piobaireachd competitions, the Pipers & Pipe Band Society . . .