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By winning the Piobaireachd and finishing fourth in the MSR, Derek Midgley of Tinton Falls, New Jersey, was the overall winner at the Markinch Highland . . .
The Grade 2 Burnett’s & Struth Pipe Band will in fact be allowed to compete at the June 12th Georgetown Highland Games in Georgetown, Ontario, after a three-way “misunderstanding” about total band . . .
Stuart Easton had a clean sweep of the light music to take the A-Grade/Open aggregate prize at the Queen’s Birthday Solo Piping Competitions. Greg Wilson won the . . .
For most pipe band organizations, the collapse of its flagship band might negatively or even catastrophically impact the rest of the . . .
The Peel Regional Police triumphed in the first Grade 1 contest of the Ontario outdoor season, besting the 78th Fraser Highlanders in a four-band medley event. Fredericton . . .
American football has its Monday Morning Quarterbacks ¨C the amateur experts who review the previous day’s games ¨C and the pipe band world has its equivalent Sunday Morning Pipe-Majors. pipes|drums is . . .
Gordon McCready of Renfrew, Scotland, and Allan Russell of Kelty, Scotland, had fine days at the Strathmore Highland Games, which went on after being . . .
A devastating fire on June 11th that left the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 93 hall a smoldering wreck burnt to the ground . . .
The piping competitions at one of Scotland’s longest-running and most popular Highland games with soloists will receive a major injection of funding this year from . . .
Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh has finally chosen its new Director of the school’s piping degree program, settling on Andrew Carlisle of Ballygowan . . .
Stuart Liddell of Inveraray, Scotland, was the winner of the Donald MacDonald Quaich, an annual piobaireachd competition organized . . .
The journey to Holland by the Pipes & Drums of St. Andrew’s College to mark the 65th anniversary of Liberation Day was a fine week of meaningful performances and ceremony for the young pipers and drummers. Never before had these young pipers and drummers experienced such attention and adulation. We feature a photo-rich account of the moving and life-altering experience for the 22 pipers and drummers over that week in May 2010.
For what is supposed to be one of the most prestigious solo piping prizes in North America, interest so far in the 2010 Piobaireachd Society Gold Medal (Canada) . . .
A cold and overcast day at Aberdeen saw 18 senior pipers compete in the solo competitions. David Wilton enjoyed great success with two firsts and two seconds. Several . . .
A gorgeous day was how one enthusiast described the weather at Ayr, where there was a strong turnout of three Grade 1 bands for . . .
The inaugural pipe band competition at Airth, Scotland, that’s scheduled for July 24th is shaping up well, according to organizer . . .