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Jori Chisholm of Seattle continued his winning Scottish solo success by taking the overall award at the Birnam games, just edging out Matt MacIsaac of Winnipeg. Rapidly changing . . .
Jeffrey Lawson enjoyed two firsts in the light music, and Alan Russell and Simon McKerrell also had very good days at the annual Lonach Gathering . . .
The two-week fundraising efforts by the 2010 Champion of Champions Field Marshal Montgomery have resulted in ?1500 so far gained for the Pink Ribbon . . .
Ainsley Hart, Pipe-Major of the Grade 1 City of Blacktown Pipe Band, enjoyed a solid day at the Combined Scottish Societies of New South Wales solo . . .
The annual Canada Day games at Embro, Ontario, enjoyed cool and sunny weather and a decent entry from the lower grades. There were no Grade 1 or Grade 2 band events . . .
Stellar weather shined down on the Kincardine Scottish Festival, the post Canada Day event popular with pipers and drummers. The Peel Regional Police took . . .
Alasdair Henderson of Dunoon, Scotland, enjoyed three firsts and a third prize at the Cupar games. While the Highland dancing competitions . . .
Colin MacLellan reviews ‘Robert Nicol ¨C Canntaireachd: The John MacDonald of Inverness Settings’
The hottest pieces of piping and drumming fashion are the newly embroidered pipes|drums shirts, exclusively available to pipes|drums readers . . .
The All-Ireland Championship returned to St. Laurence O’Toole after the Dublin-based band took seven out of eight first-place-rankings in the four-band . . .
Despite reports from sources close to the matter, the BBC has still not determined if it will once again stream the Grade 1 events . . .
The event has become one of the year’s most popular with pipe band percussionists, and this year’s Drumming for Drinks recital¨Ccompetition¨Cmadhouse looks . . .
Piping Live!, the biggest event of the piping and drumming year, has once again been recognized by the Scottish Event Awards . . .
When the words “Las” and “Vegas” are put together most people don’t instantly think of ethics and fair-play, but the organizers of the April . . .
A brief interview with Ellen Mole, director of the Ontario School of Piping & Drumming, on her experiences developing a two-week course for pipers and drummers, and some of the trends that she has identified over the years
The second Oshawa Highland Games turned into the Grade 1 Peel Regional Police Pipe Band’s third win in three tries in Ontario, as the band took the three-band MSR contest. Andrew Hayes of Ottawa had a successful . . .