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MacGregor Van de ven of Kingston, Ontario, won both of Ontario’s top amateur knockout events, winning events in Ottawa and Toronto after getting through to the finals after a winter of . . .
Hal Senyk, one of the great contributors to and most accomplished competitors on the British Columbia piping and drumming scene . . .
The agenda for the Pipers & Pipe Band Society of Ontario’s 2011 Adjudicators” Development Seminar has been laid out, and nearly 40 accredited judges are expected to attend . . .
It will be the first trip outside of Europe for about 80 per cent of the band’s members, and Brittany’s Bagad Cap Caval . . .
The RSPBA’s North of Scotland Branch Mini-Band Championships were held at Aberdeen International School, seeing a slightly smaller entry than in years past. Turriff & District , Grampian Police and Fraserburgh all had good days . . .
After qualifying for the final, ScottishPower won both the MSR and the Medley events at the second annual Lomond & Clyde Pipe Band Invitational competition. The band took home the ?2,500 first-prize, believed to be the biggest cash award in the pipe band world. The event is organized by the Grade 2 Lomond & Clyde Pipe Band, which started the competition in 2010 to celebrate its tenth anniversary, and then decided to continue the contest.
pipes|drums Magazine readers have come to the rescue of the Canterbury Caledonia Pipe Band of Christchurch, New Zealand, by donating . . .
The Grade 1 Ballycoan Pipe Band of Northern Ireland has opted out of competing in 2011, citing “conflicting commitments of personnel and reduced resource levels . . .
Does teaching piping three days a week in one of Scotland’s nicest areas surrounded by several of the world’s greatest golf courses sound good to you? What if you were paid about ?18000 . . .
Spirited and lively presentations, dialogue and debate primarily on improving communications between competitors and judges were the order of the day at the Pipers & Pipe . . .
pipetunes.ca presents . . . Tune of the Month: “The Flower o’ the Quern” – Master piper Jim McGillivray delves into the life and times and genius of the great Scottish fiddler, James Scott Skinner, also one of the major contributors to the Highland pipe-music repertory. McGillivray brings to pipes|drums’ subscribers a previously unpublished setting of an air, arranged for pipes by him and Ayrshire’s Janette Montague.
The Grade 2 Moorabbin City won the overall top award at the 2011 Victorian State Pipe Band Championships held at Haileybury College, at which 22 bands competed over four . . .
The annual Duncan Johnstone Memorial Solo Piping Competition for those graded B and C by the Competing Pipers Association was held again at the National Piping Centre, attracting . . .
Now p|d readers will be able to read coverage of events ¨C even results ¨C from the event itself. In its never-ending quest to bring provide the best service to its thousands of readers . . .
Chalk one up for pipes|drums’ panelists: the Fearless Forecast that longtime House of Edgar-Shotts & Dykehead Pipe-Major Robert Mathieson would . . .
James MacHattie reviews the March 26, 2011, concert by the Grade 2 Fredericton Society of St. Andrew Pipe Band