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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 . . .
The multi-million-dollar Las Vegas International Celtic Festival has extended the deadline by a month for pipe bands to confirm . . .
Derek Midgley of Tinton Falls, New Jersey, was the overall senior champion of the annual Dunrobin Castle solo piping competition, an event reserved for those assigned to the Competing Pipers’ Association’s B- and C-Grade categories . . .
The traditional final outdoor event of the Scottish games circuit for bands and soloists is Pitlochry. Xavier Boderiou of Brittany enjoyed a fine day, with two firsts . . .
An estimated 30,000 fans of piping and drumming came to the 2009 Piping Live! Festival in Glasgow last . . .
The Grade 2 Johnstone Pipe Band of Renfrew, Scotland, has embarked on a search for a new lead-drummer after the resignation of Bobby Davie from the post. Keith Bowes, pipe-major of the . . .
The piping community has been sadly diminished by the passing of John Finlay, of cancer, in Glasgow on Sept 13, 2010. John was an accomplished piper who won six Grade 1 World Pipe Band Championships – five as a piper with Muirhead & Sons under Bob Hardie in the 1960s, […]
Toronto Police Pipe Band, ‘Live at the El Mocambo – Raw and Off the Floor.’ John Mulhearn reviews the latest recording from the much-discussed band
The Grade 2 James J. Coyne Memorial Pipe Band of Los Angeles has appointed 21-year-old Tim Burke as new Pipe-Major, replacing Seumas . . .
After nearly 24 years with the band, Arthur Cook has resigned as Lead-Drummer of the Grade 1 Lothian & Borders Police. A successor has not yet been named, and is pending an . . .
pipes|drums has learned that Paul Turner has resigned as Lead-Drummer of the Grade 1 Robert Wiseman Dairies-Vale of Atholl . . .
After holding an emergency meeting on September 16th following the resignation of long-time Lead-Drummer Arthur Cook, the . . .
Gordon Walker of Galston, Scotland, was the overall winner at the 2010 Springbank Invitational Solo Piping Competition held at the Argyll Arms Hotel. Walker received . . .
After more than a decade as Lead-Drummer, Doug Stronach has resigned from the Grade 1 Toronto Police Pipe Band. He said that . . .
The Cowal Championships on August 25, 2007, marked the last time that Dysart & Dundonald of Fife Scotland, made a competition appearance but . . .
The September 20th memorial service for the late English fashion designer, Alexander McQueen, was rich with celebrities . . .