Archive
There’s more to piping and drumming than gaining prizes and winning competitions, and the Grade 1 Peel Regional Police . . .
The Las Vegas Invitational Pipe Band Championship scheduled for April 2011 has been cancelled, according to Jeff Mann, one of the directors of the . . .
There are about 14,000 kilometres between the United Kingdom and home-base, but the Grade 1 Manawatu . . .
While plans for the much hyped Las Vegas International Celtic Festival pipe band competition have been scuttled for . . .
Even though 2011 isn’t a big anniversary year for the Grade 2 Lomond & Clyde Pipe Band of Clydebank, Scotland, the . . .
Angus MacColl of Benderloch, Scotland, was the overall winner of the annual Glenfiddich Invitational Solo Piping Competition held at Blair Atholl Castle. It was MacColl’s third time winning the overall championship.
Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association Chairman Kevin Reilly has resigned his position, effective, September 1st, due to “personal reasons.” He had . . .
Andrew Hayes of Ottawa won the Highland Society of London Gold Medal at the annual Northern Meeting solo pipiing competitions at Eden Court Theatre on the banks of the . . .
In a move comparable to the organization’s 2003 expansion into territory previously identified with other pipe band associations, the Eastern United States Pipe Band Association has annexed . . .
Jack Lee of Surrey, British Columbia, won his second Clasp for piobaireachd at the 2010 Northern Meeting at Eden Court Theatre. Gordon Walker, Galston, Scotland, took home another Hornpipe & Jig first-prize, while results in the B-Grade light music were scattered. Lee last won the Clasp in 1994.
The day after the Northern Meeting brought a strong group of 37 competitors to the Royal Braemar Highland Gathering, under cool, cloudy and breezy conditions with very brief moments . . .
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 . . .