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Andrew Hayes of Ottawa was the winner of both the Piobaireachd and the double MSR events at the annual Canadian Police Professional Solo Piping Competition held at Ottawa City Hall. The event is part of the Canada’s annual weekend . . .

The 10 pipers who have accepted invitations to the 2011 Glenfiddich Solo Piping Championships have been confirmed and this year’s contest features eight returning players and . . .

The Grade 1 Fife Constabulary Pipe Band of Fife, Scotland, has confirmed the circulating rumours that founding Pipe-Major James Murray has stepped down from the position following his decision to move to Australia. The band . . .

The Grade 1 78th Highlanders (Halifax Citadel) have a new Pipe-Major. Alex Gandy of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, has stepped . . .

The New York Metro Pipe Band captured the US$3,000 first prize at the Celtic Classic Pipe Band Competition, an annual event that is part of the larger Celtic Classic festival that is attended by upwards of 50,000 people. New York Metro was first in both the MSR and medley contests. The competitions are held under the Hill to Hill Bridge in the town’s centre. Two piping judges, two ensemble judges, and one drumming judge assessed the events, five of whom were flown in from the UK . . .

For the last 15 years Steve Scaife of Illinois has reprinted copies of long out-of-print collections of bagpipe music through his Ceol Sean business and sold them to the piping public eager to investigate past setting and long-lost compositions . . .

With less than two weeks before the band competes at the 2011 World Championships, Dowco-Triumph Street of Vancouver has implemented a complete new set of . . .

The Montreal Highland Games took place in hot, sunny conditions, and with a good entry of bands in all grades. Organized this year by the fledgling Quebec Society of Pipers & Drummers, the games had the bands play in concert . . .

We bring back our ninth annual guide to finding the world’s best bands as they make final preparations for August 13th! For the tenth straight year pipes|drums Magazine is pleased . . .

Innes Smith of Bridge of Allan, Scotland, was the winner of the Dunvegan Medal, an event that commemorates piobaireachd attributed to or closely aligned with the MacCrimmons. The Clasp for winners of the Dunvegan was won by Murray . . .

Angus MacColl of Benderloch, Scotland, was awarded the ?Silver Chanter, the annual invitational piobaireachd contest held at Dunvegan Castle in Skye. The tune he played . . .

The annual “Pre-World’s Concert” organized by the Phoenix Honda-Glasgow Skye Pipe Band this year features frequent top-three winners . . .

Logan Tannock, after a 12-year absence from the boards, emerged the overall champion at the annual Killin Games. About 15 competed in the senior solo piping . . .

We continue our exclusive series of quickie-guides for pipers and drummers visiting places around the piping and drumming world. In this instalment, Mark Saul takes us around his home town of Melbourne, Australia, referencing spots to hit, bands to see and at least one famous piping grave to visit.

Iain Speirs and John Mulhearn won the Piobaireachd and light music, respectively, at the North Berwick games, at which about 14 competed in the senior piping. In an unusual twist, competitors had to play two marches, a strathspey and a reel in an MMSR event . . .

Euan MacCrimmon, Marion Horsburgh, Alan Clark and Alan Russell divided up the first-prizes at the annual Aboyne Games in Scotland’s Royal Deeside. Eleven competed in chilly, but then warmer, weather . . .