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Boghall & Bathgate Caledonia has withdrawn from the March 20 Invitational Indoor Pipe Band Competition in Glasgow, but Torphichen & Bathgate has stepped .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 . . .
The 2010 Metro Cup Invitational Solo Piping Competition was won by Stuart Liddell of Inveraray, Scotland, after taking second-prizes in both the Piobaireachd and . . .
The Winnipeg Scottish Festival saw local bands getting the kinks out of new players and tunes with a good contest in all grades. Winnipeg St. Andrews won . . .
At least with old-timers and pipe band historians, the name “Muirhead” is synonymous with a former World Champion pipe band, but . . .
In glorious New Zealand weather, Manawatu Scottish won two of three Grade 1 events at Masterton against the New Zealand Police, which they just tipped . . .