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John Mulhearn of Troon, Scotland, had the best overall day in the senior solo piping at the Stirling Highland Games where the wind was so strong that several . . .
While northeastern Scotland has consistently boasted many great solo pipers and not a few top-notch pipe bands, not to mention legends like . . .
If the slate of events during the Piping Live! festival over the seven days around the 2010 World Pipe Band Championships weren’t already cram-packed . . .
A warm, muggy and mostly sunny day was to the benefit of the Cambridge Highland Games, which was well attended by both competitors and spectators. The 78th Fraser Highlanders won the two-band Grade 1 event with straight first placings. The Great Lakes Pipe Band . . .
David Shedden of Glasgow and Alan Clarke of Aberdeen shared the four first prizes at the Tomintoul Highland Games, one of the more remote . . .
William Geddes won the Piobaireachd and the Strathspey & Reel for those graded Premier or A by the Competing Pipers Association at the annual Lochaber Gathering . . .
Our series of archival interviews with four legends of piping, exclusively for subscribers to pipes|drums, concludes with Lieutenant-Colonel David Murray. The interviews were recorded by a 17-year-old Iain Speirs, himself now a piping luminary, as part of high school project in 1989 that focused on the state of piobaireachd at the time, tapping each interview subject for his thoughts and opinions on where the music may be heading. The relatively brief conversations are each fascinating looks into the philosophies and perspectives of each man. In this final instalment, Lieutenant Colonel David Murray, the distinguished military man and a famous “amateur” piper taught by the great Robert Reid, meets with Speirs and provides fascinating personal perspectives on piobaireachd.
The Portland Metro Pipe Band emerged as the overall winner in Grade 2 at their home-ground competition. Portland came out ahead overall, based on piping . . .
The Scottish games circuit continued apace at Roseneath with 55 competitors going at it. Margaret Dunn made a successful return to the boards after . . .
Allan Russell of Kelty, Scotland, and Ryan Canning of Glasgow won the two events at the Balloch Highland Games, which traditionally does not hold a piobaireachd event. Sixteen competed in the . . .
Pipers from the piping-rich Argyllshire region dominated the top prizes at the Inveraray Highland Games, with hometown hero Stuart Liddell and Angus MacColl of Benderloch . . .
Chalk it up to a tough economy or the cancellation of competitions the day after at Montreal ¨C or even the continuing all-consuming fixation on the World’s . . .
All too often mainstream coverage of anything to do with Highland bagpipes is full of ridicule, jokes and derision, but a new one-hour documentary . . .
Results were scattered at Uist games, where 18 competed in the senior solo piping events, but ultimately John-Angus Smith of London won the overall award. Conditions were . . .
Two firsts and two seconds gained James MacKenzie the “Young Piper of the Year” award, narrowly tipping Derek Midgley across the piobaireachd, march, and strathspey . . .
Robert Henderson “Bob” Macdonald, the former Pipe-Major of the Toronto Police Pipe Band, died in Richmond Hill, Ontario, on July 20, 2010, at the age of 82 after an illness. An immigrant to Canada from Scotland, Macdonald was a member of the Edinburgh City Police Pipe Band and served in […]