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The pursuit of leading-drummers in New Zealand, with the Grade 1 Auckland & District competing with rivals ILT City of Invercargill for recruiting talent to run the back-end of the band. Auckland & District . . .
The revived Prairie Piping Invitational drew roughly 100 people for two hours of excellent piping. Organized by the Saskatchewan Highland Gathering & Celtic Festival, and sponsored by the City of Regina Pipe Band, the event featured six professional players . . .
The Saskatchewan Highland Gathering & Celtic Festival took place in great weather, and despite a smaller-than-usual entry of bands and soloists, the games drew enthusiastic crowds of spectators to see the variety of offerings in both venues.
Only last September Lee & Sons Bagpipes introduced zippered sheepskin and goatskin pipe bags, and now the . . .
With the Grade 1 Boghall & Bathgate Caledonia, tenor drummer Fiona Morris of Kinross, Scotland, is used to being determined to beat . . .
Transvaal Scottish, or “The Jocks” as they are commonly known, continued their unbeaten season by winning both the Grade 2 MSR and the Medley at the annual Celtic Fest at Modder Sports Complex in Modderfontein, Johannesburg. African Skye . . .
The Ottawa Branch of the Pipers and Pipe Band Society of Ontario held its annual indoor games at St. Michael’s Catholic High School in Kemptville, and 139 amateur solo competitors and 11 bands registered for the conclusion of the local . . .
The spirits of many have been dampened after the 2013 Gourock Highland Games were cancelled, nixing the first Scottish outdoor . . .
What a difference a year makes for the storied Shotts & Dykehead Caledonia Pipe Band of Scotland as the historic band enters the 2013 season . . .
After a long, cold, lonely winter, the Scottish outdoor pipe band season gets started across all grades on May 11th and 12th at Dunbar and Gourock . . .
Callum Beaumont won the Clasp event at the annual R.U. Brown Piobaireachd Society Solo Piping Competitions held at Black Friars Priory School, where . . .
In the third instalment of our exclusive interview with Roddy MacLeod, the Director of the National Piping Centre and the Piping Live! Glasgow International Festival of Piping discusses in detail the relationship with Glasgow’s College of Piping. He looks back to the origins of the Piping Centre, when the late Seumas MacNeill had a central role in its beginnings, only to fall out over a leadership disagreement. In Part 3, among many other topics, MacLeod takes an inward look at his career, and his professional contributions to the art.
The resurrected and popular Montreal Highland Games & Celtic Festival and its legendary beer tent will not happen in 2013 after . . .
Jim McGillivray continues his exclusive series with Reay Mackay’s hornpipe, composed as a kid in 1954. Subscribers to pipes|drums can enjoy the original manuscript of the tune, a classic image of a very young Reay Mackay with Colin Mackay, and instructional scores and sound files of McGillivray on the Deger pipe.
Transvaal Scottish continued their winning streak by taking the first South African Championship points of the season at the South Coast Highland Gathering at Hutcheson Park in Amanzimtoti on the south coast of Durban on a sunny autumn day with temperatures reaching 30 degrees . . .