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Field Marshal Montgomery made it a clean sweep of all five RSPBA major championships with a win at Cowal, continuing one of the best seasons by a band in history. FMM secured the Grade 1 Champion of Champions award, as did House of Edgar-Shotts & Dykehead’s drum section, which won the drumming. Weather was variable throughout the day. The day was . . .
Jori Chisholm of Seattle won the Sinagoca Cup, the aggregate trophy for best overall success at the Birnam Highland Games on a mostly a sunny day, with some changing weather conditions and wind . . .
Jeffrey Lawson, Fraser Maitland and Alan Russell enjoyed the best overall days at the Lonach Highland Gathering. The competition commemorates the compositions of William Grant in a special event . . .
After winning his seventh World Championship for Highland Dancing – and fourth in the Adult category – at the Cowal Gathering . . .
The world’s premier pipers will once again converge on Eden Court Theatre in Inverness, Scotland, for the annual Northern Meeting Piping Competitions on Thursday . . .
Details for the funeral of the great piper Alasdair Gillies have been announced. The ceremony will take place on Saturday, September 3rd, at 11am, at the Church of Scotland in Ullapool, Scotland. The funeral is open to all to attend. Those who wish to send notes of sympathy may use […]
The 78th Highlanders (Halifax Citadel) made their long trip to western Ontario worthwhile by winning the Kincardine Scottish Festival Grade 1 contest against a field of four other bands. Weather was warm and very humid, and despite a shower . . .
Neil Walker won both light music events at the Luss Highland Gathering, a competition that traditionally does not bother with a piobaireachd event. Nineteen . . .
Field Marshal Montgomery gained the 2011 All-Ireland Championship, topping St. Laurence O’Toole on an MSR preference in beautiful conditions.
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.