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In an extraordinary move, Scotland’s Competing Pipers Association is asking the more than 30 pipers who didn’t show up for the Silver Medal competitions at the Argyllshire Gathering and Northern Meeting this year to cough up ?30 to cover the losses that each competition . . .
The Grade 2 New Westminster Police Pipe Band of British Columbia plans to take a break . . .
The Grade 1 Oran Mor Pipe Band of New York has appointed 18-year-old Daniel Parsons as its new leading-drummer. Parsons takes over . . .
Joshua Hogg of the Benoni MacTalla Pipe Band was the overall winner of the George Ackroyd Challenge solo piping competition held at King Edward’s School. Alex Jeanrenaud was the aggregate winner of the Junior section.
In moderation, at least, a fountain of single malt wouldn’t be all bad, and perhaps the next best thing will come pipers’ way when the Glenfiddich Invitational Solo Piping Championships . . .
Too long on the road, The Style Guy returns from his exile of sipping mai-tais in Phuket to bring you, the Highland fashion-freaked reader, his answers to your queries. The Style Guy corrects your information gaps like he would tuck in that horrific shirt peeking out from between ill-fitting kilt […]
We conclude our exclusive interview with Michael Grey, one of the most prolific and played composers in piping history. In this last segment Grey discusses, among many other things . . .
The Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association, after more than six weeks went by since several bands complained that Bagad Brieg exceeded the maximum six minutes by six seconds in their Grade 2 qualifying heat at the 2012 World Pipe Band Championships . . .
The Grade 2 400 RCAF Squadron Pipes & Drums have made a change at the leading-drummer spot, with Mark Passmore . . .
The Ottawa Branch of the Pipers & Pipe Band Society of Ontario held its first event of the fall/winter amateur knockout series at the HMCS Bytown Naval Officers’ Mess in downtown Ottawa. Competitors earn points at events through the . . .
Steven McWhirter, leading-drummer of Grade 1 Inveraray & District, won his third World Solo Drumming Championship, and his second straight title, against a crowded array of most of the planet’s best pipe band drummers. The Final round, which comprised MSR and . . .
Roderick “Roddy” MacDonald, one of the most important figures in the evolution of piping and drumming in the United States, died after an illness on October 23, 2012, in Sarasota, Florida. His was a life of a rare all-rounder whose career spanned solo piping, pipe bands, pipe-majoring, teaching, adjudicating, composing, […]
Jamie Hawke was the overall winner of the designated New Zealand Solo Piping Championship events at the Highland Piping Society of Canterbury’s annual Silver Chanter competitions held at St Andrews College. Graeme Bryce . . .
Bruce Burt Sr., the well-known and accomplished piper from Detroit, died on October 22, 2012, at home in St. Petersburg, Florida, in his seventieth year. He started on the pipes with Pipe-Major Walter Rose at age nine with the St. Andrew’s Society of Detroit Pipe Band. At age 15 he […]
Iain Speirs of Edinburgh took home the overall prize at the 2012 Glenfiddich Invitational Solo Piping Competition, held once again in a crowded Great Hall of Blair Castle, the home of . . .
Think a police pipe band has it easy when it comes to funds and sponsorship? Think again. When a band has a sponsorship there’s a duty to represent the sponsor’s brand well. And if it’s a police-sponsored band, the pressure is on for every member to produce the playing goods, but also to uphold the image with the public of a serving police officer. As the alignment of pipe bands and police forces are under intense scrutiny in Scotland with the April 2013 unification into a single Scottish Police Service, pipers and drummers in any band, whether sponsored or not, can learn from what the Grade 1 Peel Regional Police must do to keep the sponsors pleased.