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The weather at the always well-attended Blairgowrie games was dry and cool, and the sun was out by the afternoon. Results were mostly varied, but Matt . . .
As Meaghan Proudfoot discovers, Faye Henderson is just your typical-but-with-a-Gold-Medal Scottish teen since her historic success at the 2010 Argyllshire Gathering.
Yo yo yo, Yo-Yo Ma and Yo Mama . . . Style Guy is in da house. I be getting’ down wid da styyyyle, hear wha’ I’m sayin’? Yo. Peace. After being a midge on the wall at the Drumming for Drinks madhouse last month I thought I should get […]
Andrew Young lends his critical ear to the new CD by Scantily Plaid – “this one’s for You”
The saying goes that necessity is the mother of invention, so after hundreds of years of Highland pipers struggling to stop their bag from slipping . . .
The multi-million-dollar Las Vegas International Celtic Festival has extended the deadline by a month for pipe bands to confirm . . .
Derek Midgley of Tinton Falls, New Jersey, was the overall senior champion of the annual Dunrobin Castle solo piping competition, an event reserved for those assigned to the Competing Pipers’ Association’s B- and C-Grade categories . . .
The traditional final outdoor event of the Scottish games circuit for bands and soloists is Pitlochry. Xavier Boderiou of Brittany enjoyed a fine day, with two firsts . . .
An estimated 30,000 fans of piping and drumming came to the 2009 Piping Live! Festival in Glasgow last . . .
The Grade 2 Johnstone Pipe Band of Renfrew, Scotland, has embarked on a search for a new lead-drummer after the resignation of Bobby Davie from the post. Keith Bowes, pipe-major of the . . .
The piping community has been sadly diminished by the passing of John Finlay, of cancer, in Glasgow on Sept 13, 2010. John was an accomplished piper who won six Grade 1 World Pipe Band Championships – five as a piper with Muirhead & Sons under Bob Hardie in the 1960s, […]
Toronto Police Pipe Band, ‘Live at the El Mocambo – Raw and Off the Floor.’ John Mulhearn reviews the latest recording from the much-discussed band
The Grade 2 James J. Coyne Memorial Pipe Band of Los Angeles has appointed 21-year-old Tim Burke as new Pipe-Major, replacing Seumas . . .
After nearly 24 years with the band, Arthur Cook has resigned as Lead-Drummer of the Grade 1 Lothian & Borders Police. A successor has not yet been named, and is pending an . . .
pipes|drums has learned that Paul Turner has resigned as Lead-Drummer of the Grade 1 Robert Wiseman Dairies-Vale of Atholl . . .
After holding an emergency meeting on September 16th following the resignation of long-time Lead-Drummer Arthur Cook, the . . .