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The Grade 2 Stuart Highlanders were placed ahead of the Grade 1 Oran More in the MSR event of the combined Grades 1 and 2 challenge at the New Hampshire School of Scottish . . .
By winning both the Piobaireachd and MSR events at the annual Donald MacLeod Invitational Memorial Solo Piping Competition, Gordon Walker gained the overall . . .
The Rob Roy Pipe Band was the biggest winner at the Toronto Indoor Games at Mosspark Armoury in the city’s centre. Ten bands took . . .
While the Toronto Branch of the PPBSO was holding its Indoor Games, the Western Branch of the organization held a solo and min-band competitions at London the Central Secondary School . . .
The Piobaireachd Society has altered the requirement for competitors in the senior piobaireachd events at the Northern Meeting and Argyllshire Gathering, reducing the number of tune combinations . . .
The Grade 1 78th Fraser Highlanders will reportedly expand their pipe section with the addition of Peter Aumonier . . .
The big pipe band competition in Las Vegas with multi-million-dollar funding scheduled for 2011 has outlined three days of contests from Friday, April 15th, to Sunday, April 17th, and, according to sources may include top grade . . .
Faye Henderson of Kirriemuir, Scotland, achieved her biggest prize yet by winning the Piobaireachd event at the annual Scottish Pipers’ Association event, but overall . . .
The 2nd Annual Solo Piping & Drumming Championships were held at Lochgelly High School, Fife, with a total of 128 performances over the day . . .
Lyon College, the Batesville, Arkansas-based liberal arts school, announced today that it has added a bachelor of arts degree in Highland . . .
The Simon Fraser University Pipe Band and its various soloists cleaned up at the annual Las Vegas Highland Games, where it was sunny and over 30 degrees on both days. There . . .
In what may be a record for a top-grade band, eight former and current pipe-majors of the Edinburgh City Police / Lothian & Borders Police Pipe Band were . . .
The effects of the clouds of volcanic dust that have caused the widespread grounding of commercial transatlantic air travel are . . .
Although the competition season is underway for the Grade 1 Los Angeles Scots, it hasn’t prevented the band from making a substantial leadership change . . .
It was a night for the progeny of the greats to take the mantle at the British Columbia Pipers Association’s annual Knockout Final, with Alastair Lee, son of Terry Lee, and Grant Maxwell, . . .
Derek Midgley of Tinton Falls, New Jersey, provides insights and advice for non-Scottish pipers looking to try their hand at solo competitions in Scotland. From finding transportation to sourcing accommodation, from diet recommendations to practice connections, from weathering the ever-changing rain-to-wind-to-sun-to-cold-to-rain conditions to warming up apr¨¨s-games, Midgley sees the lighter side to the heavy-lifting that is the most competitive solo scene on earth. The first in a new series.