Archive
A look at tempos for solo players and bandsmen, and how to ensure that you’re playing in good time, and not lulling your audience to sleep with subtly slipping beats . . .
Canterbury Caledonian of Christchurch made it three New Zealand Championships on the trot by capturing six of eight first rankings, winning both the Medley and MSR events as well as the drumming in each at the annual contest at Tauranga.
On October 12, 2013, the piping and drumming world lost Angus J. MacLellan after a long illness. Fortunately, pipes|drums conducted an extensive interview with him in August 1997, which we bring to subscribers now in several parts. We include the original introduction and text originally presented in 1998.
Callum Harper won the A Division for Grade 1 and 2 amateur solo pipers, and Gavin Mackay came out on top in the B Division for Grade 3 and 4 pipers at the annual Toronto Amateur Knockout Final, after several rounds of qualifying heats. In the snare drumming . . .
In the last 12 months two former World Pipe Band Champions have sadly folded, with the demise of the Edinburgh City/Lothian & Borders Police and the virtual disbandment of Dysart & Dundonald . . .
Douglas Murray of Fife, Scotland, was named the overall winner of the annual Pipe-Majors Wheel of Fortune competition, organized by the City of Edinburgh Pipe Band, and held at a packed Danderhall Miners Club, near Edinburgh. After spins of the Golden Chanter, Murray had to play . . .
The Grade 1 Greater Glasgow Police Scotland Pipe Band promised a decidedly Gaelic flavour for their 2014 Pre-World’s “Ceolry” concert, and the . . .
We conclude our exclusive interview with Jack Lee, one of piping history’s greatest pipers, teachers and leaders, who has committed his life to furthering the art. In this fifth part, Lee discusses his influences, his practice regimen and teaching techniques and what lies ahead as he continues his competitive, performing and teaching career in Highland piping.
Inspired by the long time success of the somewhat awkwardly titled “Pre-World’s” concert annually held at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall two . . .
Fifteen bands competed at the 21st annual Winnipeg Scottish Festival, bringing a large solo piping and drumming entry and strong spectator turnout to the indoor event. The Winnipeg Police Pipe Band won both Grade 3 events and won the . . .
The first in the National Piping Centre’s 2014 Spring Piping Recitals series begins on Friday, February 21st, with a unique Ladies Night featuring four of Scotland’s leading female pipers, perhaps . . .
By winning the light music and coming second in the piobaireachd, Callum Beaumont of Bo’ness, Scotland, emerged as the overall winner of the 2014 Metro Cup Highland Bagpipe Championship, the annual event at the . . .
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.