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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.
For more than 60 years of service to piping and drumming and community in Northern Ireland, Robert Kirkland, pipe-major of William Kerr Memorial of Co. Tyrone, was awarded the British Empire Medal in the King’s New Year’s Honours, coming only a few months after he was recognized by the Northern […]
What a year 2024 was! So many accomplishments and milestones, products and services, leaders and events. In 2001 we began our odyssey, putting together a panel of experts from around the world to vote on the best of the best. Each panellist brought their knowledge and non-bias to the table, […]
The annual Waipu Highland Games was held on New Year’s Eve instead of the traditional New Year’s Day in mixed conditions were mixed: torrential downpours interrupting a largely sunny, warm day. Thirteen competed in the A Grade events, and Liam Kernaghan won the overall trophy. Sam Foote from Christchurch was the aggregate B Grade champion.
Chris Armstrong was awarded the British Empire Medal in the 2024 King’s New Year’s Honours for his lifetime of service to piping. Armstrong is perhaps best known worldwide as pipe-major of Grade 1 ScottishPower, consistently one of the world’s elite bands since he took it on in 2005. “I consider […]
On a Medley preference, Stuart Easton of Palmerston North, New Zealand, won the overall and $500NZD after a tie with Liam Kernaghan, Wellington, at the annual Northcote Invitational Solo Piping Competition at the Northcote Tavern on the North Shore of Auckland. As is tradition, the previous year’s winner, Piers Dover, judged both events. The competition is sponsored by the Auckland & District Pipe Band.
We look back at the creative articles that caught most of your attention in 2024
We count down the news of 2024 that garnered the most attention.