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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 . . .
The Grade 1 New Zealand Police Pipe Band has appointed Angus Crowe to take over as leading-drummer from Ross Levy following . . .
The Grade 1 Grampian Police Pipe Band of Scotland has lost its Pipe-Major, as Colin Walker resigned after two . . .
A little less than a year since his death, a special recital in honour of the legendary piper, Donald MacPherson, will take place in Glasgow on April 13th. MacPherson died . . .
The first major event for the Grade 1 Western Australia Police Pipe Band with recently appointed Pipe-Major James Murray in . . .