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In 2023, there were different winners of Grade 1 and Grade 2 and all major championships leading up to the World Championships, and on the eve of the European Championships, the same pattern is emerging. Only a few weeks before the RSPBA outdoor competition began, Perth, Scotland, stepped up as […]
For the second straight year, Derek Midgley of Tinton Falls, New Jersey, won the Col. Jock MacDonald Clasp for winners of the Dunvegan Medal for piobaireachd and Roy Bridge, Scotland’s Sandy Cameron won the 2024 Dunvegan Medal. Midgley was also the overall winner across all of the events held in Portree.
Melbourne, Australia’s Mark Saul is well known to most pipers and drummers as an accomplished teacher, piper, bagpipe maker, reedmaker, composer, performer, and recording artist. He’s just released Praxis, his third full album, this time with eight tracks that once again push the boundaries of Highland bagpipe music. On the heels […]
Held at Lovat Memorial Field, it was Decker Forrest of Isleornsay, Skye, who was awarded the Alasdair F.B. Roberts Memorial Quaich for best overall results in the senior solo piping at the Mallaig & Morar Highland Games. The Simon MacKinnon Memorial Trophy for best aggregate in the 18 and Under piping went to Seonaidh Forrest, also of Isleornsay.
Our final group of 4K videos from the 2024 North American Pipe Band Championships are of the Grade 2 MSR competition. Seven bands competed for the prize on August 3rd in Maxville, Ontario. Ulster Scottish from Philadelphia won the event and the overall Grade 2 title.
Jori Chisholm of Seattle has emerged as one of history’s great innovators for the Highland pipes. Recognizing the promise of internet “distance learning,” he was the first to harness the power of online teaching almost 30 years ago with the launch of BagpipeLessons.com. Numerous creations have stemmed from the teaching […]
4K videos from the Grade 2 Medley at the 2024 North American Pipe Band Championships on August 3rd in Maxville, Ontario.
We’re pleased to bring pipes|drums’ faithful supporters 4K videos from the Grade 1 events at the 2024 North American Pipe Band Championships on August 3rd in Maxville, Ontario.
The 78th Fraser Highlanders won the 2024 North American Pipe Band Championship held in warm and muggy conditions before a large crowd attending the 75th anniversary of the Glengarry Highland Games. There were only two bands in Grade 1.
Against 14 other contestants, Ben McClamrock of Washington, DC, won the Piobaireachd Society (Canada) Gold Medal playing “Nameless – Hiharin odin, hiharin dro.” McClamrock welcomed the win, particularly after placing second in the event several times over the last 10 years.
According to the organizers, ticket sales for the Captain John A. MacLellan Memorial Medal Dinner-Recital on August 24th in Edinburgh have been brisk. The remaining tickets will be available for purchase only until 11 p.m. (BST) on Friday, August 16th. Held at the Waldorf Astoria Caledonian Hotel in the shadow […]
Glasgow Life, the overall organizers and licensees of the World Pipe Band Championships, have confirmed that the competition will once again be live-streamed this year by Glasgow Life. The Grade 1 competitions on Friday, August 16th, will be broadcast without commentary, apart from that of Fergus Muirhead, who will announce […]
With some 50 entered across all five grades, the 2024 Glengarry Highland Games are set to reclaim the title of North America’s biggest pipe band competition in what will mark the event’s seventy-fifth anniversary in the tiny farming community of Maxville, Ontario. The North American Pipe Band Championships will feature […]
Robert Kitts, an important figure in Canada’s Glengarry County piping and drumming community, died on July 26, 2024, in his eighty-ninth year. Though not well known in the wider piping and drumming world, Bob Kitts introduced dozens, if not hundreds, of kids to the pipes through his tireless, voluntary teaching […]
Angus D. MacColl of Benderloch, Scotland, enjoyed a rare perfect competing day of solo piping at the annual Arisaig Highland Games on the idyllic west coast, in sight of the Sgùrr of Eigg. The elder Angus won all four Senior events against a strong field of 20 other contestants.
We bring pipes|drums readers our exclusive 8,500-word March 2004 conversation with the late great Captain.