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Ann Gray of Calgary won two of three Professional solo piping events at the annual indoor competition run by the St. Andrew-Caledonia Society of Calgary, an event not sanctioned by . . .
The Halifax Highland Games, one of the staples of the eastern Canada piping and drumming competition circuit after running for . . .
The remarkable rise in popularity of pipe band bass- and tenor-drumming over the last 15 years has prompted the Pipers & Pipe Band Society of Ontario . . .
Unlike most top solo piping competitions that keep competitors on edge, not divulging what they’ll be required to play often until only minutes . . .
Boghall & Bathgate Caledonia has withdrawn from the March 20 Invitational Indoor Pipe Band Competition in Glasgow, but Torphichen & Bathgate has stepped . . .
Iain Speirs reviews Affirmation, the latest CD from 2009 World Champions Simon Fraser University
Iain MacDonald looks back at the Chicago PipeFest ¨C a watershed event in the history of world piping and drumming. Included are sound files of Grade 1 performances from the actual 1982 competition.
We conclude our extensive exclusive interview with Colin MacLellan, one of the foremost leaders of his piping generation. In this installment, he discusses his heroes, piping in Edinburgh and what may be on his horizon.
The first competition in the series of events over the year to determine the 2010 Breton Bagad Champion will be televised and streamed on the Internet live, with 15 Grade 1 bagads . . .
Two significant indoor events in Ontario will conflict on April 10th, with two Pipers & Pipe Band Society of . . .
After more than a year since the RSPBA’s decision to place the six “international” judges on its panel in “suspense” over . . .
Young Justin Steele of Chatham, Ontario, is living proof of what the power of the Highland pipes ¨C and not a little self-determination and spirit ¨C can do to . . .
Alex Gandy of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, won all three Professional Solo Piping events at the annual Queen Mary Scottish Festival, against a field . . .
Pipers and drummers know that their elite players compete for gold medals, and now huge audiences at the 2010 Winter Olympics in . . .
Even though the upcoming Invitational Indoor Pipe Band Competition in Glasgow on March 20th will abide by RSPBA rules, the sponsoring . . .