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At the annual meeting of Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association adjudicators on November 1st the still . . .
After several years of proposals, planning and rumours, it was officially announced at the annual general meeting of the Western United States Pipe Band Association . . .
Over its eight year history, the National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland has never performed in Edinburgh, Scotland’s capital city, but . . .
Brett Tidswell won the annual Silver Chanter competition sponsored by the R.U. Brown Piobaireachd Society . . .
Anthony Masterson of Houston and Petey Lowrie of Brunswick, Ohio, were the overall winners of the 2009 Balmoral Classic US . . .
The top 10 North American amateur solo pipers will converge on Saturday, November 21st in Hamilton, Ontario, at the 14th annual George Sherriff Memorial . . .
Bill Millin, the personal piper to Lord Lovat, who famously played on the beaches of Normandy during . . .
Richard Gillies of Portland, Oregon, gained the 2009 George Sherriff Memorial Invitational Amateur Solo Piping Championship . . .
In a move unexpected by some, the Eastern United States Pipe Band Association has decided to maintain its use of an RSPBA-style Musical Appreciation and Presentation . . .
The world’s pipers and drummers will once again help to choose the World’s Best Bass-Section trophy . . .
Pipe bands continually strive for exclusive identity and only a few have gone so far as to create their own unique tartan. On St. Andrew’s Day . . .
After serving on the organization’s Executive for more 34 years, Charlie MacDonald was elected President of the Pipers & Pipe Band Society of Ontario at its annual . . .
We continue our exclusive conversation. In this installment, MacLellan discusses his father, piping pressures, and competing while growing up.
We bring to you the third installment of Ryan MacDonald’s series of photos of pipers and drummers exclusively for pipes|drums subscribers.
Ian Duncan of Perth, Scotland, was voted Scotland’s “Music Tutor of the Year” in the Trad Music Awards gala ceremony at Dumfries, Scotland, on November 28th. The . . .
Jim Kilpatrick has been made a member of the Scottish Traditional Music Hall of Fame, the first pipe band drummer ever . . .