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The youngest piper so far in the growing Vancouver Lee family piping dynasty is still over-the-moon after having his original tune chosen . . .
The Pipeband Club of Sydney won the first and second prizes in the Grade 1 section of the ANZAC Mini-Band Competitions held in glorious weather at the Liverpool Catholic Club in Western Sydney. The . . .
What do Ernest Hemingway, gaitas, bodhrans, McCallum Bagpipes and plenty of mojitos have in common? Top pipers James P. Troy and Ryan MacDonald travel to Havana and discover a fascinating world of musical excitement and interest, and a natural attraction to the Highland pipes. Jamie Troy provides his impressions of the eight-day CeltFest Cuba Festival, while Ryan MacDonald offers up her celebrated, sumptuous photography in an extended collection, as well as a video of the action from one of the musical sessions – exclusively for subscribers to pipes|drums
The “new” Torphichen & Bathgate got its 2010 season off to a fast start by winning the Grade 1 event at the Dunbar Highland Games, the first outdoor contest of the UK season. Under newly appointed . . .
Bruce Gandy of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, won the aggregate trophy at the 2010 William Livingstone Sr. Memorial Invitational Solo Piping Competition by taking the first-prize in both the Piobaireachd . . .
In what may mark the first time that a Scottish-based piping society or association has conducted an overseas membership drive in-person, the Edinburgh-based Eagle Pipers Society will sign up new members when society . . .
After only a year in Grade 3, the Burnett’s & Struth Pipe Band’s application to move to Grade 2 has been officially approved by the Music Board of . . .
More than 30 accredited judges from the Pipers & Pipe Band Society of Ontario, as well as several from as far afield as . . .
In its 160 years as a music club, Toronto el Mocambo Tavern has probably never had a pipe band stage a concert . . .
The world’s only bagpipe- and curling-playing Olympian, Eve Muirhead, officially opens the eighth annual Piping Live! International Piping Festival in Glasgow . . .
In another blow to the Ontario piping and drumming competition circuit, the popular Montreal Highland Games has cancelled all piping and drumming contests at its 2010 event, reportedly for financial reasons. The games have opted . . .
Our series of archival interviews with four legends of piping, exclusively for subscribers to pipes|drums, continues with James Campbell. The interviews were recorded by a 17-year-old Iain Speirs, himself now a piping luminary, as part of high school project in 1989 that focused on the state of piobaireachd at the time, tapping each interview subject for his thoughts and opinions on where the music may be heading. The relatively brief conversations are each fascinating looks into the philosophies and perspectives of each man. In this third instalment, James Campbell of Kilberry, the son of the legendary and, to some, infamous Archibald Campbell ¨C of Piobaireachd Society and Kilberry Book of C¨¨ol M¨°r fame ¨C meets with Speirs and provides a reserved, yet candid, look into his outlooks and philosophy on piobaireachd and piping overall.
Last year the piping legend Bill Livingstone released Northern Man, his most ambitious solo project that was three years in the making. Now, after a 45-year piping hiatus, he returns to . . .
Premier Music International of England has launched a full line of pipe band drums, including bass and tenor models . . .
The 2010 Scottish Pipe Band Championships at Dumbarton, Scotland, will once again kick off the major events of the UK pipe band season, with more than 130 bands entered to compete across all grades . . .