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The Red Hot Chilli Pipers can be called many things, but shy is not one of them. The pop-rock-electric-Celtic-pipes-drums-and-guitars “bagrock” group . . .
The Aughintober Pipe Band of Castlecaulfield, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland has enjoyed a meteoric rise to the heights . . .
Snare drummers Michael Hunter and Alan Savage have reunited with former band-mate Andre Tessier, joining the Grade 1 Dowco Triumph Street . . .
Bobby Durning of Haverhill, Massachusetts, was the overall winner at the annual Nicol-Brown Amateur Invitational Solo Piping Championship, held at . . .
After 10 years as Pipe-Major, Scott Nicolson has resigned from the position at the Grade 1 Pipeband Club of Sydney . . .
Peel Regional Police Mid-Section Leader Kyle Heaney guides pipes|drums subscribers through the band’s concerted development of its 2010 number-one medley, proving that a cohesive strategy, with all three band leaders working together, can produce the desired orchestration. The article includes example audio files to illustrate his points, in an aspect of pipe band music that is rapidly evolving.
To mark one-hundred years of working together, the Piobaireachd Society and the Army School of Piping are holding a free . . .
Over his 50-year piping career Bill Livingstone has received hundreds of prizes in solo and pipe band competitions within the piping . . .
RSPBA judge Jim Campbell provides his assessment of the groundbreaking October 8th “Fired Up” concert jointly presented by the Grade 1 Boghall & Bathgate Caledonia Pipe Band of West Lothian and the Grade 2 Bucksburn & District Pipe Band of northern Scotland at Aberdeen’s Music Hall.
Lorne Cousin played to millions as the piper on Madonna’s 2004 world tour. The Mains of Fintry Pipe Band was part of the 2008 Beijing . . .
Eighteen-year-old Lincoln Hilton won the overall prize and the title Young Australasian Piper of the Year at the annual Silver Tassie solo competitions at Knox . . .
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 . . .