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Have mercy, Miss Percy! The Highland wear industry is changing so rapidly that even I, The Style Guy, am having trouble keeping up with the MacDonalds. Looks like you, too, my faithful followers, are also having difficulty knowing what to wear and how to wear it. Let’s take a look […]
It always seems both like a long, cold wait and an event that comes up on bands quickly, but the traditional opening of the UK outdoor . . .
The UK’s top women solo pipers claimed the big awards at the annual Highland & Islands Music & Dance Festival, marking the first time in memory ¨C or ever ¨C that . . .
Neil Cranston, a snare drummer in the Boghall & Bathgate Pipe Band organization for 33 years and a drummer with the Grade 1 band, died suddenly on May 5th at his home in Bathgate, Scotland. The suspected cause was a brain hemorrhage. Cranston, a popular figure on the pipe band […]
Almost a year to the day after introducing his carbon-fibre snare drums at the 2009 Toronto Indoor Games, inventor Terry Cleland . . .
The youngest piper so far in the growing Vancouver Lee family piping dynasty is still over-the-moon after having his original tune chosen . . .
The Pipeband Club of Sydney won the first and second prizes in the Grade 1 section of the ANZAC Mini-Band Competitions held in glorious weather at the Liverpool Catholic Club in Western Sydney. The . . .
What do Ernest Hemingway, gaitas, bodhrans, McCallum Bagpipes and plenty of mojitos have in common? Top pipers James P. Troy and Ryan MacDonald travel to Havana and discover a fascinating world of musical excitement and interest, and a natural attraction to the Highland pipes. Jamie Troy provides his impressions of the eight-day CeltFest Cuba Festival, while Ryan MacDonald offers up her celebrated, sumptuous photography in an extended collection, as well as a video of the action from one of the musical sessions – exclusively for subscribers to pipes|drums
The “new” Torphichen & Bathgate got its 2010 season off to a fast start by winning the Grade 1 event at the Dunbar Highland Games, the first outdoor contest of the UK season. Under newly appointed . . .
Bruce Gandy of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, won the aggregate trophy at the 2010 William Livingstone Sr. Memorial Invitational Solo Piping Competition by taking the first-prize in both the Piobaireachd . . .
In what may mark the first time that a Scottish-based piping society or association has conducted an overseas membership drive in-person, the Edinburgh-based Eagle Pipers Society will sign up new members when society . . .
After only a year in Grade 3, the Burnett’s & Struth Pipe Band’s application to move to Grade 2 has been officially approved by the Music Board of . . .
More than 30 accredited judges from the Pipers & Pipe Band Society of Ontario, as well as several from as far afield as . . .
In its 160 years as a music club, Toronto el Mocambo Tavern has probably never had a pipe band stage a concert . . .
The world’s only bagpipe- and curling-playing Olympian, Eve Muirhead, officially opens the eighth annual Piping Live! International Piping Festival in Glasgow . . .