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In early October Drew Hoinacki announced his intention not to stand again as President of the Midwest Pipe Band Association after more . . .

The 2010 Australia Pipe Band Champions, the Pipeband Club, have formally voted in Angus Roberts as Pipe-Major, assuming leadership from Scott Nicolson, who led the band for more . . .

Barry Wilson of the ScottishPower Pipe Band was the overall winner at the 2010 World Solo Drumming Championships, held at Glasgow Caledonian University. It was the fourth consecutive win of the award for Wilson who came out on top against 10 other finalists. The overall result was determined from the aggregate of two events, a March, Strathspey & Reel and a Hornpipe & Jig. Jim Kilpatrick of House of Edgar-Shotts & Dykehead was playing to break his own record with a seventeenth World Solo . . .

The Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association has announced its formal regradings, and again has downgraded a non-member band . . .

Brendon Eade was the overall winner of the A-Grade events, and Angus Hawke took the aggregate in the B-Grade competitions. Liam Kernaghan took the Silver Chanter . . .

There’s more to piping and drumming than gaining prizes and winning competitions, and the Grade 1 Peel Regional Police . . .

The Las Vegas Invitational Pipe Band Championship scheduled for April 2011 has been cancelled, according to Jeff Mann, one of the directors of the . . .

There are about 14,000 kilometres between the United Kingdom and home-base, but the Grade 1 Manawatu . . .

While plans for the much hyped Las Vegas International Celtic Festival pipe band competition have been scuttled for . . .

Even though 2011 isn’t a big anniversary year for the Grade 2 Lomond & Clyde Pipe Band of Clydebank, Scotland, the . . .

Angus MacColl of Benderloch, Scotland, was the overall winner of the annual Glenfiddich Invitational Solo Piping Competition held at Blair Atholl Castle. It was MacColl’s third time winning the overall championship.

Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association Chairman Kevin Reilly has resigned his position, effective, September 1st, due to “personal reasons.” He had . . .

Andrew Hayes of Ottawa won the Highland Society of London Gold Medal at the annual Northern Meeting solo pipiing competitions at Eden Court Theatre on the banks of the . . .

In a move comparable to the organization’s 2003 expansion into territory previously identified with other pipe band associations, the Eastern United States Pipe Band Association has annexed . . .

Jack Lee of Surrey, British Columbia, won his second Clasp for piobaireachd at the 2010 Northern Meeting at Eden Court Theatre. Gordon Walker, Galston, Scotland, took home another Hornpipe & Jig first-prize, while results in the B-Grade light music were scattered. Lee last won the Clasp in 1994.

The day after the Northern Meeting brought a strong group of 37 competitors to the Royal Braemar Highland Gathering, under cool, cloudy and breezy conditions with very brief moments . . .