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The Jimi Hendrix Experience made a musical statement in the 1960s, and now a new Celtic “big band” is to be formed from young Scottish musicians to create . . .

Karen Hatcher, pipe-sergeant of the 33rd Service Battalion Pipes & Drums of Halifax, Nova Scotia, is to be named executive director of the College of Piping & Celtic Performing Arts in Summerside, Prince Edward Island . . .

The band that held a practice on top of Ben Lomond after pipers and drummers last year lugged their instruments to the summit is once . . .

In today’s pipe band climate of fleeting fortune, financial challenges and ever-changing personnel, it’s hard enough to last a . . .

Not only will the National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland will bring its acclaimed “Dragon’s Lair” show to an audience at the Concert Hall . . .

‘Sealbh,’ the new recording by Iain MacInnes, is reviewed by Ann Gray

With less than two weeks to go before the 10th anniversary Lomond & Clyde Invitational Indoor Pipe Band Competition, one of the . . .

The second annual Silver Cap Invitational Solo Piping Competition will be held at the Lord Todd Bar at . . .

Toronto’s el Mocambo nightclub is known by rock music aficionados as the historic venue where the Rolling Stones made Love You Live . . .

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 . . .