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After an unsuccessful search for a new lead-drummer, the Grade 1 78th Highlanders (Halifax Citadel) of Halifax, Nova Scotia, have decided to go on hiatus for the 2025 competition year “It is disappointing to announce that the band board and membership have agreed that the main option for us currently […]
At the Kansas City Marriott-Country Club Plaza Grand Ballroom, Alastair Lee of Surrey, British Columbia, was the aggregate winner across the two Gold Medal events to win the overall trophy in the annual Winter Storm Professional Solo Piping competitions. Washington, DC’s Andrew Donlon won the Gold Medal Piobaireachd prize, while Lee won the Light Music Gold Medal.
“Come along prepared to hold us to account” is a core message in Royal New Zealand Pipe Bands’ Association President Liam Kernaghan’s invitation to an open Town Hall to introduce RNZPBA members to their new board of directors, in his first major leadership initiative after two weeks in the role. […]
The Pacific Rim Solo Drumming Championship will return to British Columbia on March 8th at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby this year. The contest is run by the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association and presented by the British Columbia Pipers Association as part of the RSPBA’s eight-contest Champion of Champions […]
We check in with Liam Kernaghan only a few weeks after starting his tenure as president of the Royal New Zealand Pipe Bands’ Association.
This installment includes the piobaireachds “Beloved Scotland,” “The Bicker,” “My Dearest On Earth, Give Me Your Kiss,” and “The Munros’ Salute.”
“The Drunken Man from Kalabakan” is celebrated Highland piping recording artist Ross Miller’s newest musical creation, combining “The Drunken Piper,” Pipe-Major Angus MacDonald’s “Kalabakan” and “Borneo,” and “The Man from Glengarry” by D.C. Mather into what he promises will provide “excitement aplenty” when it’s released on January 24th on major […]
Responding to the “repeated proposals by the membership at multiple recent annual general meetings,” the Eastern United States Pipe Band Association’s Music Board is embarking on a system to create A and B designations for existing and future members of its adjudication panel. The proposed approach and details on how […]
Glasgow – January 11, 2025 – The Competition League for Amateur Solo Pipers (CLASP) kicked off its year with an in-person event at the National Piping Centre’s Otago Street premises. Craig Turnbull, Donald Morrison and Anthony MacLachlan were the overall winners in the Grade 1, Grade 2 and Grade 3 […]
The Pipe-Major Donald MacLeod Memorial Invitational Solo Piping Competitions will return to Stornoway in Scotland’s Western Isles on Thursday, March 27th (junior events), and Friday, March 28th (senior events) at the Caladh Inn. The event will be the 29th running of the competition; started in 1994 and has been held […]
In Part 3, she discusses the move to Shotts & Dykehead Caledonia under Pipe-Major Tom McAllister and Leading-Drummer Alex Duthart, more challenges as being one of only two female Grade 1 band players.
As the number of years lived run up, one becomes even more conscious of time running down. We’re determined to travel to those places we always wanted to see, read the books we’ve always planned to absorb, and appreciate the people we love more.
Saint Thomas Episcopal School in Houston is in recruitment mode, looking for a drumming instructor to join its formidable percussion team of Graham Brown and Andrew Elliott, and piping instructors Nick Hudson and Lyric Todkill at the private Texas institution. The school wants a drummer who has played with an […]
“I think band members should be allowed to provide intelligent input on who judges. We should ask the bands what their thoughts are.”
“If an adjudicator gives a prize to a drum corps that is flying off at a tangent and producing all kinds of riproaring feats of percussional dexterity, and the pipe corps just happens to be there, well, they shouldn’t be getting the drumming prize.”
We mourn the pipers, drummers and enthusiasts who sadly left us in 2024, leaders of and contributors to the art and the piping and drumming community who passed away last year.