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When the Grade 1 Toronto Police Pipe Band returns to the el Mocambo Club for its second spring concert on May 21st . . .
Despite the RSPBA’s elimination of the prize in March 2008, the tradition of the awarding the best bass-section in Grade 1 at the World Pipe Band Championship has continued, and the . . .
The Australian Pipe Band Championships are held every two years, traditionally in one of the vast country’s states or . . .
Lewis Turrell, the first non-Scottish winner of a Highland Society of London Gold Medal, died on April 21, 2011, after a lengthy fight with lung cancer, at home in Auckland, New Zealand with his family at his side. Described as “a giant” on the New Zealand scene, Turrell was known […]
No, greed sloth an envy don’t make this particular list, but find out what international drumming judge Greg Dinsdale lists as the biggest pitfalls of today’s drum sections. Coming from a drummer who has seen and played it all, his observations may surprise. Critical thinking for any band hoping to score well in ensemble.
Simon Fraser University took both Grade 1 band events, James P. Troy was the overall winner of the Professional grade and Joseph Stewart the aggregate Grade 1 Amateur solo piping champion at the . . .
We check in with the 35-year veteran of top-flight pipe band competition on both sides of the Atlantic, and the owner of The British Shop, one of North America’s leading piping and drumming merchandise dealers for our exclusive “10 Questions With . . .” snapshot interviews.
After a successful venture into the pipe band concert promotion business with the 2010 show by Boghall & Bathgate . . .
Inspired by pipes|drums’ one-day April Fools spoof story joking that Glasgow City Council was encouraging non-Scottish bands . . .
In another first, the pipes|drums page on Facebook has topped 5,000 “likes,” another milestone for the magazine and the piping and drumming . . .
The fourth installment of Ryan MacDonald’s series of photos of pipers and drummers exclusively for pipes|drums subscribers. Fifty-six sumptuous images from the art’s most stylistic photographer.
More than 100 entries from every continent but Antarctica resulted in the world’s first known digital-only competition being deemed a success by organizer Jori Chisholm, making winners of David MacNeil (Canada), Ernesto G¨®ngora Acosta (Mexico), Colleen Poe (USA), Bill Urquhart (USA), George Low (USA) and Fred Arnold (Canada). Contestants submitted their entries across six amateur grades via YouTube or audio recording. The judges were Alan Bevan, Surrey . . .
We continue our exclusive pipes|drums Interview with Harry McNulty, one of the often underestimated giants in pipe band history. In Part 3 McNulty discusses, among many other things, his involvement with the Sinclair chanter, experiences as an RSPBA adjudicator, thoughts on luminaries like Bob Shepherd, Tom McAllister and Terry Tully and much, much more.
The always controversial system of admittance for the 60 or so top-level solo pipers applying to the competitions at the Argyllshire Gathering and Northern Meeting in Scotland . . .
Donald McBride reviews St. Laurence O’Toole’s Evolution DVD and gives it pipes|drums’ highest rating possible
Translating from the Gaelic to mean Edinburgh, which in turn suggests the biblical Garden of Eden, and now the Florida Gulf coastal city of Dunedin is looking for a new City Piping . . .