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Jim Stack reviews the new CD – Live at the Quarry – by the Grade 1 Western Australia Police Pipe Band, recorded at the band’s concert last March at an outdoor amphitheatre venue in Perth
The Grade 2 Bucksburn & District Pipe Band of Aberdeen, Scotland, has made Simon Lipp Leading-Drummer after incumbent Mike Haggart stepped down . . .
sunny day for the annual Blairgowrie Games, where Gordon McCready of Renfrew, Scotland, had the best overall success in the top-level events . . .
It was a long day for solo pipers and judges at the annual Royal Braemar Highland Gathering, and competitors who played in the late afternoon and evening had to contend with cold and damp, with wet drones an extra challenge. The events finished at 7 pm, and organizers have been asked . . .
Matt Pantaleoni of St. Louis was delighted to be presented the overall trophy by the organizers of the Birnam Highland Games in Scotland on August 31st, but days later when he took a closer . . .
Stuart Liddell completed rare perfect sweep of all events he competed in at the Northern Meeting, by taking his third Clasp for piobaireachd . . .
Callum Beaumont was the winner of the Highland Society of London’s Gold Medal at Inverness, adding one of the solo piping world’s biggest prizes to his growing array of wins. The first day of solo piping competitions at the 2013 Northern Meeting at Eden Court Theatre also saw Alasdair Henderson of Dunoon, Scotland, win the Silver Medal, and Alastair Dunn of Glasgow win the A-Grade March, Strathspey & Reel. The events open the door for the winners to compete in the Highland Society of London Gold Medals and the Silver Star MSRs at both Oban and Inverness . . . stay tuned.
In the aftermath of the World’s, punters are trying to assess the value and impact of the two-day event. Thanks to correspondent “Andy” who sent this photo of the queues at the Saturday World’s. Andy remarks: “The queues outside the World’s at two o’clock prove the popularity of the two-day […]
They’re a self-described “project band” comprising students and available players from various bands that Pipe-Major David Ogilvie . . .
pipes|drums Magazine staked out a great spot to capture all twelve bands in the Grade 2 Final at the World Pipe Band Championships on August 17, 2013, at Glasgow Green. The march, strathspey & reel event saw the Buchan Peterson Pipe Band of Aberdeen, Scotland, take the title, after each finalist band finished in the top six in its qualifying heat earlier in the . . .
Matt Pantaleoni of St. Louis was the overall winner at the Birnam Highland Games, held on a sunny and warm late-summer day that is popular with solo pipers . . .
Field Marshal Montgomery finished a perfect season by winning the fifth and final RSPBA major, the Cowal Pipe Band Championship, in an event that was historic for several additional reasons. It marked the final championship for St. Laurence O’Toole Pipe-Major Terry Tully, who is retiring after the 2013 season following more than 30 years as leader of the band, highlighted by its World Championship victory in 2010. It also marked the end – at least for now – of the Cowal Pipe Band Championship . . .
After three competition seasons, Ken Constable has resigned as Leading-Drummer of the Grade 1 Toronto Police Pipe Band. The move comes less than two weeks after the band . . .
With more than 2,000 entries to the 2013 pipes|drums Pick the Six contest, Richard Turnbull of Torphichen, Scotland, has won more than $3,500 in prizes . . .
The annual Pipe Idol competition at the Piping Live! Glasgow International Festival of Piping is one of the festival’s original events and, after 10 years, has become one of the world’s great challenges . . .
ohn-Angus Smith of London was the overall winner at the annual Lonach Gathering, where 15 pipers competed in the senior events in mostly warm with occasional cold showers. There was the usual strong attendance by non-Scottish contestants, many of whom . . .