Archive
The year’s best amateur solo pipers in North America are once again gearing up for the annual George Sherriff Amateur Invitational . . .
Joseph Stewart of Seattle and Quinn McCormack of Pembroke, Massachusetts, were the overall winners of the second annual United States Junior Solo Piping and Drumming Championships held at the Mellon Institute in Pittsburgh. Stewart . . .
With an aim to secure its future, the Grade 1 Torphichen & Bathgate Pipe Band of West Lothian, Scotland, is taking things into . . .
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is renowned for training the world’s greatest scientists and producing Nobel laureates, but for one night . . .
Iain Symington reviews ‘Tunez,’ a new collection of light music compiled by Kyle Warren of Glasgow
Crawford Allan is the new Leading-Drummer of the Grade 1 Robert Wiseman Dairies-Vale of Atholl Pipe Band of Pitlochry . . .
Andrew Laird of Winnipeg, Manitoba, emerged the overall winner at the 2010 George Sherriff Memorial Amateur Invitational Solo Piping Competition, held at St. Paul’s Church. Laird was awarded the aggregate prize after a tie with Glenn Walpole of Tiverton, Ontario, broken by his win in the Piobaireachd . . .
We continue our series of interviews with eight members of the great Edinburgh City Police bands of the 1950s, ’60 and ’70s. Pipers Jack Abbott, Chris Anderson, George Lumsden, Harry McNulty, Duncan Smith and Martin Wilson reunite with drummers Alistair Aitken and Jim Hutton to reminisce about the band’s glory days and revisit fond memories.
This One’s for You, the latest CD by the Celtic folk trio, Scantily Plaid, was been named Folk/Traditional Recording of the Year at the 2010 Hamilton Music Awards . . .
The tumultuous three-year saga of the Strathclyde Police Pipe Band’s organizational challenges took another turn after Duncan Nicholson . . .
Pipe band mergers have happened in the past, but mostly with top-grade bands that are struggling in competition and . . .
Only half of the scheduled agenda of the 2010 annual general meeting of the Pipers & Pipe Band Society of Ontario . . .
The oldest Highland bagpipe chanter known to exist, a 17th century instrument that belonged to the great composer Iain Dall MacKay, has returned . . .
The Grade 2 Denny & Dunipace Gleneagles Pipe Band of Stirling, Scotland, is the beneficiary of new Grade 1-tested leadership . . .
Robert “Bob” Martin, the renowned former pipe-major of the Boghall & Bathgate Caledonia Pipe Band, died on the afternoon of October 3, 2010, in Edinburgh, due to . . .
After the 2004 competition season when the band finished tenth at the World Championships, the Western Australia . . .