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We conclude our four-part interview with Gerry Quigg, an early innovator of pipe band music. In this instalment, Quigg continues with opinions on the size of pipe bands, the current trends with pipe band medleys, his judging experiences and much more.
In 1949 the Knightswood Highlanders commissioned a composing competition. The judges deemed a composition by . . .
Even more pipers, drummers and enthusiasts will discover this August that the best and cheapest place to see and hear . . .
Founder of the Bagpipe Music Museum and publisher of the Bagpipe Music Index and Donald MacLeod Book 4 passes away at age 86
Libby O’Brien of New Zealand begins our new “24 Hours In . . .” series of feature articles exclusively for subscribers to pipes|drums. We’re asking prominent pipers and drummers to highlight a single day of activities that they would recommend in a location that might be off the familiar path. If they had only one day in the place, how would the person spend the time and what would he/she recommend to others? Libby O’Brien chooses to look at a day at the Palmerston North “Square Day.” Other writers will take readers on must-see tours of cities for pipers and drummers, but here Libby takes a day to share her hour-by-hour experience at her favourite event in the world.
And now, The Style Guy, the man of artistic action, who can spot a Highland gear faux pas at a hundred yards, who can recognize a Saxony kilt just by the sound it makes as the offending wearer walks, whose sporran houses a solid silver Victorian flask of rusty nails. […]
John Mulhearn of Glasgow reaped the most rewards with a first and two seconds at the sunny and warm Stirling Highland Games.
LA filmmaker John McDonald’s latest piping and drumming project might not happen if he doesn’t raise $20,000 in “Kickstarter” funding by 3 am EDT . . .
Only hours after pipes|drums reported that the On The Day Box Set of three discs and other material . . .
Marketed as “No travel, no vacation days, no gas money, just bagpipes,” Andrew Douglas of Albany, New York, has extended his Piper’s Dojo . . .
The Toronto Police Pipe Band won its first Grade 1 competition since the mid-2000s by taking the medley contest at the annual Cambridge Highland Games. It was the first win since the mid-2000s for the band. Ian K. MacDonald enjoyed a fine day in the Professional solo piping, with three firsts and a second. The games were held under blazing sun in very dry, hot and challenging conditions. Stay tuned to pipes|drums for high definition video footage from the Grade 1 and Grade 2 competitions . . .
Twelve pipers competed in the remote Tomintoul Highland Games, where Greig Canning of Fife was the overall winner of the McArthur Prize.
Weather at the annual Roseneath Games was pleasant and dry for most of the day, but an Open Championship of Golf-style blustery gale and howling rain blew through intermittently soaking a few unlucky players. The event was well attended by competitors across three CPA grades.
Pamela Whyte of Aberdeen won both of the light music events at the annual Stonehaven Highland Games in fair weather. James Hamilton judged both of the events.
It was 1981 when Richard Parkes took the Pipe-Major’s post at the then Grade 2 Field Marshal Montgomery Pipe Band and, in 2011, he finds himself and the band going strong in their fourth . . .
Simon Fraser University had eight straight first-placings across both the Medley and MSR events at the annual Portland games. The other band in Gradde 1 was Dowco-Triumph Street.