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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 . . .
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 . . .