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Michael Eskin of San Diego has combined his love of piping with his expertise as a software developer to launch several . . .

The Friday Professional Piobaireachd Competition at the annual BC Highland Games saw the first three prizes go to members of the Lee piping dynasty . . .

In his final installment to his three-part series, Derek Midgley of Tinton Falls, New Jersey, puts everything into perspective, providing several essential top-five lists to help you get by in the home of Highland piping. From rules of drinking etiquette, to tips for understanding Scots vernacular, to scenic detours in between competitions, Midgley’s living the dream and will help you live it, too.

Belfast band makes it two in 2010 majors; Boghall second again overall, and wins another drumming prize

The second day of the BC Highland Games saw the Simon Fraser University Pipe Band win both Grade 1 events, and mixed results in the professional . . .

Glasgow’s Williamwood Pipe Band says it achieved its ultimate goal on May 30th in its creative fundraising effort that saw more than 50 members and supporters of the organization . . .

With little more than a month to go before the St. Laurence O’Toole Pipe Band of Dublin takes the main stage at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Pipe-Major Terry Tully reports . . .

Now in its 33rd year, the William Livingstone Sr. Memorial Invitational Solo Piping Competition will see eight competitors participate in the . . .

The annual solo piping competitions organized by the R.U. Brown Society of South Australia saw a full slate of events, and in the end Alistair McInnes took home the gold medal for piobaireachd . . .

Jim McGillivray continues his exclusive series with “The Hills of Alva,” one of the most popular pipe tunes of all time – and one that was not composed by a piper at all, but by an accordionist, Tommy Muirhead. Subscribers to pipes|drums can see one of the only known photos of Muirhead and listen to him playing his composition on the accordion. Jim McGillivray also provides an instructional sound file of his own playing of the tune on the Deger pipe.

Ian K. MacDonald of Toronto was the overall winner of the Masters events at the annual Dr. Dan Reid Memorial Invitational Solo Piping Competition held at the Marines Memorial Club and Hotel . . .

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 . . .