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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 . . .

The final round of both the Professional Piping and Snare Drumming of the 2011 British Columbia Pipers Association Knockout will go out live on the Internet via . . .

Bradley Parker, 14-year-old Highland piper from Portavogie, Northern Ireland, has been named Northern Ireland’s Young Musician of the Year for 2011. Parker gained the award . . .

Almost a dozen years have passed since the Glengarry Highland Games has adjusted the prize money offered to pipe bands, but the event that boasts the North American . . .

Mitch Mackay was the big winner at the annual Agnew-Harrison Invitational Drumming Competition held here at the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders of . . .

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 . . .