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In “Sweet Home Alabama” Lynyrd Skynyrd asked, Does your conscience bother you? The Grade 4 Alabama Pipes & Drums are . . .
The Rocky Mountain Pipe Band of Calgary is the latest Grade 2 band to struggle with numbers, and has decided not to . . .
The second annual Pipers & Pipe Band Society of Ontario Western Branch Kiwanis Competition attracted more than 40 solo competitors and 10 bands in the mini-band contest. The competition again . . .
The ScottishPower Pipe Band started its season with a win at Gourock, the first outdoor event of the year in Scotland.
The 19th annual Dr. Dan Reid Memorial invitational solo piping recital/competition was held at the Marines Memorial Club and Hotel. Andrew Hayes of Ottawa and Sean McKeown of Toronto were the overall winners . . .
Some 96 pipers participated in the 10 events at the annual R.U. Brown Gold Medal Competitions, and Ross Campbell won the big prize. The event is put on by the R.U. Brown Piobaireachd . . .
Darleen Milloy (nee Miharija) of Vancouver died on May 11, 2011, after living with multiple sclerosis for more than 20 years, and leading a fight against the condition that was an inspiration to all who knew her. An accomplished solo piper in the 1980s before she was no longer able […]
The second and final part of an in-depth analysis of the world’s biggest pipe band event and the almost undetectable negative impacts that the competition has on the world piping and drumming scene. In Part 2, discussion of the overall influence on pipe band music, the demise of geographical piping and drumming scenes and a serious clash of cultures points to the potential ill-effects of the World’s. Potential solutions to the problems are offered, with the intention of making the World’s and piping and drumming worldwide even better.
The first outdoor pipe band contest on Scotland’s east coast was won by the Lothian & Borders Police. The event marked the full-band return of Dysart & Dundonald . . .
Field Marshal Montgomery got its season off to a solid start with a win over 2011 World Champions St. Laurence O’Toole at the County Tyrone Championships at Dungannon in a three . . .
Alex Gandy won his first William Livingstone Sr. Memorial Invitational Solo Piping Competition, playing in a new format for the decades-old event. Gandy won in a 20-minute . . .
Chants of USA! USA! followed Donald MacPhee’s 20-minute freestyle performance at the first-ever International Piping in the Park solo competition that brought together six players from different countries to show their piping stuff while sporting their native colours, and while MacPhee wowed the crowd, it was Gordon McCready of Scotland who gained the overall prize. McCready donned a Scottish rugby jersey, and won the MSR trophy with “Knightswood Ceilidh,” “Caber Feidh” . . .
The town of Dumbarton, Scotland, will once again host the Scottish Pipe Band Championships, the first of the RSPBA’s . . .
The popularity of “other” bagpipes over the last 20 years is being realized at a games that would typically cater only to the Highland piping competitions . . .
Field Marshal Montgomery started its championships season with a win of the 2011 Scottish Pipe Band Championships held in mainly cold, rainy, windy conditions at Leven Grove Park. By mid-afternoon the massed bands had been cancelled. 2010 World Champions St. Laurence O’Toole settled for second, while ScottishPower made its way into the top three, despite a missed attack. Fife Constabulary snuck into the prize-list . . .
The Grade 1 Toronto Police Pipe Band returned to the legendary el Mocambo Club in downtown Toronto for the second straight year to perform a two-hour . . .