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Gordon Walker and Angus MacColl divided up the first-prizes at the annual Uist & Barra solo piping competition, the first significant solo event . . .

Graham Brown, Andrew Elliott and Kyle Heaney won the professional solo snare, bass and tenor drumming events, respectively, at the 2010 Agnew-Harrison Drumming Invitational, held at James . . .

Auckland & District were the repeat winners of the New Zealand Pipe Band Championship, besting second-place Manawatu Scottish in a four-band competition. Auckland . . .

For the last 10 years, the Duncan Johnstone Memorial Solo Piping Competition in Glasgow has paid homage to the late, great piper and composer, and this year’s event on March 20th . . .

The Victorian Pipe Band Championships were held in perfect weather at Haileybury College, Melbourne. The Australia Highlanders were the only band in Grade 1, but . . .

John-Angus Smith helped the London Scottish Regimental Pipes & Drums celebrate its 150th anniversary at the regiment’s headquarters in Westminster by . . .

After a tornado interrupted the 2009 return of Ontario’s Oshawa Highland Games after the event’s 30-year hiatus, reports were rampant . . .

In 1978 the Northern Meeting and the Argyllshire Gathering at Inverness and Oban, respectively, added Silver Medal piobaireachd . . .

The RSPBA in January reached out to the world’s pipers and drummers, asking them to offer up their suggestions as to how to . . .

Audio files of the 10th anniversary Lomond & Clyde Pipe Band Indoor Invitational Competition on March 20th in Glasgow will be made available for download via the band’s website in what may be a first for a full Grade 1 band . . .

House of Edgar-Shotts & Dykehead took home the ?2,500 first-prize at the Lomond & Clyde Pipe Band’s Invitational Indoor Pipe Band Competition, an event that marked L&C’s . . .

Not since the PipeFest competitions in Chicago in the early-1980s has such a large total of prize money been on offer for winning pipe . . .

Results were fairly scattered at the 10th annual Duncan Johnstone Memorial Solo Piping Competition at the National Piping Centre, but it was Craig Muirhead who had . . .

Roasting temperatures made the band competitions at Bathurst a challenge, but the relatively small event held at the Scots School about two hours . . .

These days it’s all about getting attention for your event, whether through rich prize-money, creative approaches or, as in the case . . .

The Glenfiddich Invitational Championship, considered by most as the apex of the solo piping year, has added two more events to the list of competitions from which the winners will garner an . . .