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While he’s a prominent light music composer with two collections published so far and scores of arrangements for pipe bands over his . . .
The Victorian Highland Pipe Band Association of Australia has just completed its first test trial in which bands are allowed to enter and take a formation very different from the familiar . . .
The Aberdeen Universities Officers Training Corps is celebrating its centenary year with a tune composing competition ¨C but you’ll . . .
The overall winner of the 2012 Metro Cup Solo Piping Championship was Angus MacColl of Benderloch, Scotland, who was first in the Piobaireachd event and fourth in the Medley, which was won by Willie McCallum of Bearsden, Scotland . . .
In the final instalment of the Mark Saul pipes|drums Interview, he discusses piping and drumming “traditions,” the ebb and flow of musical creativity, and what happens when bands try to challenge the establishment. The cultural divisions that can be seen with bands from various parts of the world are exposing new concepts and leading to the constant questioning of “authority.”
The Toronto Police Pipe Band will help to mark its centenary this year with a November 10th concert in downtown Toronto at the Opera House that will also feature the . . .
For most of the piping and drumming world north of the equator, the weather outside is frightful, so pipes|drums takes you back to the summer with another Hot Stove League video. This time, it’s high-definition video highlights of Angus MacColl, the virtuoso piper from Benderloch, Scotland, performing in the 2011 Lord Todd Challenge Recital at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow on August 11th. The Lord Todd Challenge is one of the hottest tickets of the piping year. The room is always filled to capacity, the bar six-deep and the excitement metre redlining, as five of the world’s greatest solo pipers converge in an invitational . . .
pipes|drums has learned from two separate inside sources that the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association will reportedly announce plans to make the World Pipe Band Championships a two-day competition, beginning in 2013 . . .
pipes|drums Magazine once again assembles a panel of experts to choose which piper, drummer, band, event and product are awarded our coveted New Year’s Honours.
In 1998 Jim McGillivray’s Rhythmic Fingerwork defined a new approach to developing light music technique, and now the Aurora, Ontario-based piper will unveil Piobaireachd Fingerwork, a 120-page, 10-chapter guide . . .
We continue our exclusive interview with Mark Saul of Melbourne, one of the leading composers and arrangers of pipe music of our time. In Part 2, Saul discusses the challenges of composing and publishing in the modern piping world, the role that the Victoria Police Pipe Band had on his work, and the band’s organization and strategy in its 1990s glory years. Mark Saul goes in to detail about the management style of Pipe-Major Nat Russell, the tuning genius of Robert Crozier, and dispels a few myths about the band that have evolved since its 1998 World Championship win.
The newest American Grade 1 band is the latest to sign a sponsorship agreement with Premier Percussion to play the English manufacturer’s instruments “for the foreseeable future,” according to City of Chicago Pipe Band . . .
For at least a weekend in January, Kansas becomes famous for something more than barbecue, fountains and a customarily poor baseball team, as the 2012 iteration . . .
One of the most powerful newspapers in the world, The New York Times, this week featured piping on its front page when Jori . . .
Alex Gandy won the Gold Medal Piobaireachd event, while Andrew Carlisle took home the top light music award and Colin Clansey won the Silver Medal Piobaireachd contest at the annual Winter Storm competitions, part of the weekend . . .
The annual “Piping Concert” at the Celtic Connections festival in Glasgow next week features two bands that will make their first appearances in a full-length show, when the Spirit of Scotland . . .