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After months of deliberations, Grade 2 bands in Ontario will be allowed to “challenge up” at select contests, going head-to-head against bands in the top grade ¨C but only if there are three or fewer bands competing in Grade 2, and only where the Grade 1 event . . .
The first South African solo event of the year, run by the ISH Piping Society of the Witwatersrand, was the Pipe-Major Alexander “Sandy” Mallen Memorial Solo Piping Competition, held at King Edward VII School, Johannesburg . . .
With patent-pending features that “herald a new dawn for pipe band tenor drumming,” TyFry Ultimate tenor drum mallets . . .
We bring our subscribers an exclusive interview with arguably Highland piping’s most professional and well-rounded personality. An extraordinary competitor, a leader of Grade 1 pipe bands, the original and existing Director of the National Piping Centre and the co-founder and leader of the Piping Live!
The Canadian “May Long Weekend” has for any years marked the open of the Highland games season on the prairies, even though the . . .
If you want to compete at competitions sanctioned by the Midwest Pipe Band Association, you’d best have access to the Internet and a PayPal account as the organization has launched an online-only entry system for pipers and drummers, with an aim to streamline access to its nine full events in 2013. Like most associations that allow competitions to run independently, but with contest governance, rules and judging sanctioning, the MWPBA has relied on non-piping/drumming games organizers to manage an often complex entry system, leaving competitors to deal with disparate and sometimes confusing . . .
James P. Troy captured the MacCrimmon Memorial Cairn for piobaireachd and the Professional Piping Aggregate on a piobaireachd preference at the BC Pipers’ Association 81st Annual Gathering held at the Burnaby campus of Simon Fraser University over the Easter weekend. In his first professional competition, Alexander Schiele won the Darleen Milloy Memorial trophy in the second annual Competing Pipers Association Combined B & C Grade Piobaireachd. The aggregate for the Professional Side Drumming events was a tie with Ian Lawson and Grant Maxwell sharing the Arran Campbell Memorial trophy. For their efforts Troy received travel allowance to get to UK competitions in Oban, Inverness or London; Liam Hilder . . .
A sizable crowd came out to listen and compete at the annual Toronto Indoor Games at Moss Park Armoury in the . . .
The world’s two biggest indoor piping and drumming events will take place on the same day when the British Columbia Pipers’ Association . . .
While the lists for the Senior and Gold Medal piobaireachd competitions comprise mostly familiar tunes and a conventional approach, the Piobaireachd Society has added a twist . . .
After 130 years, the Edinburgh City / Lothian & Borders Police Pipe Band officially ended . . .
Mitch Mackay, Matt Bellia and Cameron McKail were the winners at the annual Agnew-Harrison Memorial Solo Drumming competition, an event put together by the Niagara-Hamilton Branch of the Pipers & Pipe Band Society of Ontario.
The Strathclyde Police Pipe Band, which for the last 37 years has steadily built its name after its 1975 move from the Glasgow Police Pipe Band . . .
Michael Grey reviews Celtic Connections’ Annual Piping Concert, this year the Strathclyde Police Pipe Band and Bagad Lorient ¨C a historic event as the final concert appearance by the legendary police pipe band under its current identity.
Jim McGillivray’s excellent analysis of the famous John MacColl 2/4 march, “Sir Arthur Bignold of Loch Rosque,” brings to light the question of whether the tune is actually his own, or if, as in so many instances in pipe music, his inspiration came from other sources.
The absence of the world’s most famous tenor drummer will not adversely impact House of Edgar-Shotts & Dykehead, according to Leading-Drummer Jim Kilpatrick after Tyler Fry decided to . . .