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After just over a year in the role, Neil Hall has stepped down as Pipe-Major of the Grade 1 Lothian & Borders Police Pipe Band. Hall cited growing work commitments as the reason, which . . .
The seventeenth annual George Sherriff Memorial Amateur Invitational Competition will once again comprise a full day of contests for 10 of the . . .
Iain Speirs of Edinburgh completed a dream-like two weeks of piping, winning the Bratach Gorm for piobaireachd at the annual Scottish Piping Society of London competitions at the . . .
Although the New York Metro Pipe Band had planned months ago to stage a concert in Pittsburgh on November 10th, it didn’t know then that the event would follow a . . .
Ken Eller reviews the Scots Guards Standard Settings of Pipe Music, Volume III ¨C or “cots Guards 3” ¨C one of the largest print collection of pipe music to be published in 30 years. He takes pipes|drums subscribers through the book’s highlights, and ponders some important questions of copyright and acknowledgment, as well as matters of style and taste. At $75 a pop, this potential Christmas gift is a guarded decision for pipers..
Kirk Brunson and Amber Stone were the overall winners at the 6th annual Balmoral Classic US Junior Solo Piping and Drumming Competition, an annual competition hosted by the Balmoral School is for U.S. citizens and U.S. residents aged 18 and younger. Fifteen pipers and four drummers competed . . .
The new Scots Guards Standard Settings of Pipe Music, Volume III, printed by Nuvello Publishing Ltd. of London, a large and well . . .
Callum Harper of Bolton, Ontario, emerged the overall winner and 2012 George Sherriff Memorial Amateur Invitational Solo Piping Competition champion at the annual event, held at St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church in the downtown of Canada’s seventh biggest city. Harper took the prize with firsts in the MSR and 6/8 Marches events, and a fourth in the Piobaireachd. The competition showcases 10 of the most successful Grade 1 Amateur soloists from across North America, each nominated by their home associations. Among other prizes, the aggregate winner of the Sherriff receives a stipend of $800 to travel to compete in Scotland and a set of pipes from McCallum Bagpipes. As a nonprofit, pipes|drums Magazine donated $200 to the event . . .
Brian Niven of Melbourne reviews “Live from New York City,” the latest project by the six-time World Champion Simon Fraser University Pipe Band, recorded at their concert at Lincoln Center in Manhattan in May 2012.
We bring subscribers to pipes|drums an exclusive interview with Robert “Bob” Turner, the former leading-drummer with the legendary Muirhead & Sons and British Caledonian Airways pipe bands.
After some 130 years, including the last 20 in a relatively constant state of flux, the Grade 1 Lothian & Borders Police Band has disbanded. The decision was made at a band meeting on the night of November 29, 2012. Scotland’s police . . .
The Black Raven Pipe Band of Dublin is one of the oldest non-Scottish pipe bands in the world, and for the last year nearly collapsed due to being homeless and without regular practice facilities . . .
The amalgamation in April 2013 of Scotland’s police forces into a single “Police Service of Scotland” has coincided with the voluntary closure of the . . .
Alexander Schiele of Snohomish, Washington, was named the 2012 Nicol-Brown Amateur Invitational Solo Piping Championships overall winner, after taking first prizes in the Piobaireachd and MSR events, and a fifth in the 6/8 Marches. The 2012 contest was the thirtieth anniversary of the competition, which has long been one of the ultimate destinations for North American amateur pipers who gain an invitation based on their success in Grade 1 solo competitions in the previous season. Schiele received
Former Triumph Street Pipe Band Pipe-Major Hal Senyk reviews the new all-digitial collection of 76 compositions by Scotland’s Chris Armstrong
Colin Clansey of Ottawa emerged the winner of The Livingstone, the reformatted rendition of one of the longer-running competitions . . .