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The piper who famously played on the beaches of Normandy during the first wave of the Allied Forces’ invasion on June 6, 1944, has died in Devon, England, at the age of 88 after a stroke.
With a substantial number of withdrawals by those accepted for the upcoming Silver Medal competitions at Oban and Inverness, the Argyllshire Gathering will . . .
Chinese culture places great importance on symbols, and there are few luckier images than the dragon. Little did the Grade 3 Greighlan Crossing . . .
The Grade 1 Tayside Police Pipe Band of Dundee, Scotland, has dissolved after its pipe-major, David Clunie, resigned following . . .
Jim McGillivray continues his exclusive series with “The Royal Scottish Pipers’ Society,” one of the greatest marches ever composed – a tune from the pen of one of history’s most elusive and enigmatic subjects, Roderick Campbell. Subscribers to pipes|drums can enjoy a fascinating look into what’s known of Campbell’s life. Jim McGillivray also provides an instructional sound file of his own playing of the tune on the Deger pipe.
Euan MacCrimmon of Oban, Scotland, and Jenny Hazzard of Edinburgh enjoyed solid days at the annual Nairn Highland Games in the north . . .
Jori Chisholm of Seattle won the P-M James MacGregor Cup for Best Overall Piper at the Glenisla Highland Games on a day that started wet and cold, but cleared . . .
About 20 contestants played in the senior piping events at the Crieff Highland Games and chilly but dry weather. Stuart Easton of New Zealand and Canadian . . .
Two Grade 4 pipe band based in the Pacific Northwest have developed a novel agreement that will see the best of each group merge into a single new Grade 3 band, while leaving . . .
After 29 years at the helm of one of the world’s most famous pipe bands, Bill Livingstone has stepped down as Pip-Major of the 78th Fraser Highlanders. Livingstone made . . .
Faye Henderson of Kirriemuir, Scotland, became history’s first female winner of the Highland Society of London Gold Medal, playing “Lament for Donald Duaghal MacKay” at the Argyllshire . . .
Lee takes A-Grade March, Carlisle S&R; Troy and Nichols win B-Grade events; Drummond wins Jig
Returning to his family roots, Kenny MacLeod, a former pipe-major of the band, has come back as the new leader of Phoenix Honda-Glasgow Skye . . .
Bright sunshine, clear skies and breezy conditions permeated the morning at the Cowal Gathering, and rain set in later in the day.
The policies, rules and format of the pipe band competitions at the April 2011 Las Vegas Invitational Championships have . . .
Results from the 2010 Cowal Pipe Band Championships as they were announced from the march-past. Weather was a challenge for competitors, with showers then dry and sun, then . . .