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His return to Scotland, light music styles, pipe bands, reedmaking, the RSPBA, judging . . . the seven-page, near-5,000-words fourth instalment
The results from our 2009 study of pipe band competition, including the length of medleys, musical content, band formation and whether the old-Highland warhorse MSR should be sent to the glue factory.
Receiving the Queens Service Medal on December 31, 2009, for services to pipe bands, Jim Fraser passed away just five days later. Born on September 15, 1934, when Jim was six years old his father decided that Jim would learn the side drum – no option was given to […]
Organizers of the ninth annual Winter Storm Weekend expect attendees from at least 40 US states, Scotland, Ireland, Northern Ireland and Australia to come to the 2010 . . .
The ninth annual Midwest Highland Arts Fund Winter Storm competitions at the Marriott¨CCounty Club Plaza saw increased . . .
Good day, Highland fashionistas. I, The Style Guy, shall now peer inside my Victoria-era sporran, reputedly once owned by that well-endowed ghillie, John Brown, and which was reportedly rummaged in by none other than Queen Victoria herself, to ponder the latest missives from mystified readers. Let’s see now . . […]
We regret to report the passing on January 16, 2010, of George M. Bell, one of the most important piping figures in the North America, at age 83, after several years of intermittent illness. Originally from Glasgow, Bell started with pipe bands as a drummer in the local Boys’ Brigade […]
Willie McCallum emerged as the overall winner of the annual Gordon Duncan Memorial invitational solo piping competition, held . . .
The resurrection of the 25 years dormant Edinburgh-based Eagle Pipers’ Society came to reality when a large gathering met at the Scots Guards Club in the Scottish . . .
The highly popular Drumming for Drinks anything-goes freestyle pipe band percussion competition that has become a key event in Glasgow during the week preceding the World . . .
The Strathclyde Police Pipe Band was saved from the brink of dissolution this week after a meeting on January 19th and another on January 21st with the inspector . . .
In 2009 the Grade 1 Toronto Police Pipe Band made a trip to the Breton Pipe Band Championships and Inter-Celtic Music Festival in Lorient, Brittany, instead of the more . . .
Based on new criteria set by the sponsor of the trophy, the winner of the Hosbilt Cup for the Best Bass-Section in Grade 1 at the 2009 World Pipe Band Championships is . .
Jenny Hazzard reviews John Mulhearn and the Big Music Society, Classic Grand Theatre, Glasgow, Jan. 23, 2010