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About 20 contestants played in the senior piping events at the Crieff Highland Games and chilly but dry weather. Stuart Easton of New Zealand and Canadian . . .
Two Grade 4 pipe band based in the Pacific Northwest have developed a novel agreement that will see the best of each group merge into a single new Grade 3 band, while leaving . . .
After 29 years at the helm of one of the world’s most famous pipe bands, Bill Livingstone has stepped down as Pip-Major of the 78th Fraser Highlanders. Livingstone made . . .
Faye Henderson of Kirriemuir, Scotland, became history’s first female winner of the Highland Society of London Gold Medal, playing “Lament for Donald Duaghal MacKay” at the Argyllshire . . .
Lee takes A-Grade March, Carlisle S&R; Troy and Nichols win B-Grade events; Drummond wins Jig
Returning to his family roots, Kenny MacLeod, a former pipe-major of the band, has come back as the new leader of Phoenix Honda-Glasgow Skye . . .
Bright sunshine, clear skies and breezy conditions permeated the morning at the Cowal Gathering, and rain set in later in the day.
The policies, rules and format of the pipe band competitions at the April 2011 Las Vegas Invitational Championships have . . .
Results from the 2010 Cowal Pipe Band Championships as they were announced from the march-past. Weather was a challenge for competitors, with showers then dry and sun, then . . .
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 . . .