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When the legendary piper Robert Reid died in 1965 he notoriously was said to have requested in his will that all of his piping manuscripts and recordings be buried with . . .
The group of world famous pipers and drummers who hit the road in early-April on the “Pipes & Sticks on Route 66” tour have embarked on a one-of-a-kind journey, and members of the team have offered to provide pipes|drums Magazine readers with an exclusive travel log on the adventure. Drummers Mike Cole and Jim Kilpatrick and pipers Stuart Liddell, Angus MacColl and Willie McCallum are taking three weeks to traverse the old US Highway #66, playing recitals and conducting workshops along the way. In this final installment, Mike Cole, Willie McCallum and Stuart Liddell fill us in on the exploits of the gang on the last three days of the adventure.
The first major championship of the 2012 UK season will again take place at Dumbarton, Scotland, when more than 160 bands compete at the Scottish Championships . . .
The Grade 1 Dowco Triumph Street Pipe Band of Vancouver will help celebrate its fortieth anniversary year by releasing a new . . .
Field Marshal Montgomery of Northern Ireland got the 2012 season of major championship off to a strong start with a win at the Scottish, held at Levingrove Park in cold but dry conditions.
Two Grade 2 United States-based bands that have been recently re-graded by the RSPBA went head-to-head at the annual Colonial . . . .
pipes|drums Magazine has been awarded naming rights to one of North America’s most established solo piping events, which will undergo a makeover with a new-look event . . .
Pipers from the Grade 2 Strathclyde Fire & Rescue Pipe Band and the Grade 1 Strathclyde Police Pipe Band and House of Edgar-Shotts & Dykehead aren’t sure of the official . . .
The annual Kingston Scottish Festival was held again in spectacular weather before a larger crowd than ever. The event is . . .
Gordon McCready of Renfrew, Scotland, took both light music events at a sun-drenched, warm Bathgate Highland Games, while Darach Urquhart won the piobaireachd contest . . .
It is with great sadness that the Fife Constabulary Pipe Band announces the passing of one of their young snare drummers, Steven (Stevie) Sims, at the far too early age of 23, late on May 26, 2012, after a short, but ultimately fatal illness. Steven Sims was an intelligent, funny, […]
Just in time for the end of the school year and the beginning of many pipers’ first years at university and college, professional-class solo piper Elizabeth Sheridan of Oakville, Ontario, provides insights and tips on how to get the most from your post-secondary school experience while keeping your keen interest in the pipes. Practicing, money, time management, scholarships, housing ¨C it’s all here, along with insights (in Part 2) from student-pipers in the UK. A member of the Grade 1 Peel Regional Police Pipe Band and a student at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, Liz Sheridan is living proof that it is possible to let both academic and piping lives coexist . . . and even thrive.
Gordon McCready continued his winning ways by taking the aggregate award at the Blair Atholl Highland Games, where more than 60 pipers competed in the light music events. The B-Grade Piobaireachd was split into two heats, and . . .
It was Benoni MacTalla’s turn to take back honours in Grade 2, nipping the Transvaal Scottish with ensemble preference in both the MSR and the Medley events, at the De La Salle Gathering held at De La Salle Holy Cross College, Victory Park, Johannesburg . . .
The Jakarta Highland Games were held at Karawci, West Jakarta, on a typically humid day in the Indonesian capital. The 2012 . . .
City of Chicago and the 78th Fraser Highlanders were the only two Grade 1 bands competing at the annual Alma Scottish Festival, and each band came home with a first-prize, but it was City of Chicago that gained the Sunday United States Championship prize, winning the drumming on both days . . .