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The Ceres Highland Games, which contends it is the oldest in the world after being granted a charter by Robert the Bruce in 1314, enjoyed every season in a single day, from sunny and warm to blustery with cold rain showers. Jonathan Graham won everything against a field of six other contestants.
Richard Payn won the top piobaireachd prize and was second in the major light music event at the South Coast Highland Gathering Solo Piping and Drumming competition held at Hutchison Park . . .
The Piobaireachd Society has announced the tunes that the world’s best solo pipers will have to choose from for the top competitions at . . .
Approximately 100 people paid their last respects to Donald MacPherson, the legendary piper who died on April 21st in his ninetieth year. The service was held in Edinburgh at Mortonhall Crematorium . . .
For competing pipers and drummers in the know, “ScottishPower” means the top-tier Grade 1 pipe band from . . .
Gordon McCready of Renfrew, Scotland, enjoyed a first and a second in the A-Grade events at the annual Highland & Islands Festival competitions . . .
We bring subscribers to pipes|drums our archive interview from 2005 with the late Donald MacPherson. Piping scholar Barnaby Brown originally assembled the historic piece with the legendary piper, who passed away on April 21, 2012, at the age of 89.
New York Metro Pipe Band Pipe-Major Michael Mahoney reviews the May 4, 2012, concert at Avery Fisher Hall at the Lincoln Center in New York City.
The first sanctioned PPBSO Champion Supreme event of 2012 took place here as part of the large Kiwanis Music Festival. The event was organized by the PPBSO’s Western Branch and featured a full slate of amateur solo events in the morning and a small mini-band contest in the afternoon. The contest was open to non-members of the PPBSO or affiliates to compete, but only members are eligible for Champion Supreme points. In addition to PPBSO scoresheets, competitors received feedback . . .
A recent news story on Scotsman.com may have created a stir with pipers who read it, but the article got important points wrong, especially when it insinuated that makers of . . .
With three second-prizes at the World Championships and a raft of firsts at other majors, many people agree that Boghall & Bathgate Caledonia holds the unofficial title of “Best Band Not Yet to Win a World’s,” . . .
The annual Adjudicators’ Seminar of the Pipers & Pipe Band Society of Ontario attracted 34 from the organization’s panel to the all-day . . .
The Scottish season’s first outdoor west coast competition of 2012 was the traditional Sunday event at Gourock, which was the victim of horrendous weather. Several bands pulled out of the competition when they saw the forecast.
The previous week it was all Benoni, but the Transvaal Scottish came back strong to take both Grade 2 events at the Celtic Fest held at the Champetre Estate in Modderfontein . . .
The Grade 1 Dysart & Dundonald Pipe Band of Fife, Scotland, has secured a new three-year sponsorship agreement with the Kilts & More . . .
The Grade 2 Denny & Dunipace Gleneagles won the Grade 2 event at Scotland’s first outdoor contest of 2012, and, for good measure, played up and won the Grade 1 contest against Grade 1 Torphichen & Bathgate. The Grade 1 Lothian & Borders Police Pipe Band had . . .