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The funeral for George Walker, the well-known and popular Toronto area piper, teacher and raconteur was held on August 2, 2010, in Toronto. George Walker immigrated to Toronto from Aberdeen and from 1954 to 2004 was an active member of the pipes and drums of the 48th Highlanders of Canada, […]
A win at the European Championships can never hurt ticket sales, and the organizers of the August 11th St. Laurence O’Toole concert at the . . .
The 44th annual Silver Chanter MacCrimmon Memorial Piobaireachd Competition was awarded to Gordon Walker of Galston, Scotland, the first time the famous piper had garnered the prize. Walker continued a hot streak in the solos after winning all the events at the Arisaig games the previous Saturday, as . . .
William Geddes won the Dunvegan Medal for piobaireachd at the Skye Highland Games, a contest that commemorates the tunes . . .
William Geddes won the Dunvegan Medal for piobaireachd at the Skye Highland Games, a contest that commemorates the tunes . . .
Fresh off its win of the 2010 North American Championship, the Peel Regional Police Pipe Band of Brampton, Ontario, has joined . . .
Robert Mathieson of the House of Edgar-Shotts & Dykhead Pipe Band has announced his resignation as Pipe-Major and Gavin Walker, a former member of the Strathclyde Police Pipe Band, will take over the storied position.
Craig Muirhead of Stirling, Scotland; Douglas Gardiner of Edinburgh; and Jonathan Graham of Glasgow took home the first . . .
Simon McKerrell of Lenzie, Scotland, won the overall prize at the first Belfast PipeUp International Invitational Solo Piping Competition, an event put . . .
The eighth rendition of the Piping Live! Glasgow International Piping Festival is set to start Monday, and the week-long event promises to be the most extensive yet in terms of talents and . . .
Bruce Gandy enjoyed a fine day and relatively good prize money at the North Berwick games, a Scottish competition . . .
With only a few days left before the August 11th St. Laurence O’Toole “Evolution” show at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, there are only 25 standing-room tickets left . . .
The first performance of the week-long Piping Live! International Festival of Piping amazes a packed Piping Centre auditorium with a virtuoso performance from one of solo piping’s greatest players.
After an 18-band MSR Qualifying competition at Glasgow Green, the following six Grade 1 bands emerged as finalists for the afternoon Medley and MSR competitions to determine the 2010 World Pipe Band Champion.
St. Laurence O’Toole of Dublin won the 2010 World Pipe Band Championship under dry and relatively warm weather at a very crowded Glasgow Green. It was the first . . .
Libby O’Brien of New Zealand, Australia and, now, Scotland reports on the first full day of festivities from the International Festival of Piping and surprises even herself