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In 1978 the Northern Meeting and the Argyllshire Gathering at Inverness and Oban, respectively, added Silver Medal piobaireachd . . .
The RSPBA in January reached out to the world’s pipers and drummers, asking them to offer up their suggestions as to how to . . .
Audio files of the 10th anniversary Lomond & Clyde Pipe Band Indoor Invitational Competition on March 20th in Glasgow will be made available for download via the band’s website in what may be a first for a full Grade 1 band . . .
House of Edgar-Shotts & Dykehead took home the ?2,500 first-prize at the Lomond & Clyde Pipe Band’s Invitational Indoor Pipe Band Competition, an event that marked L&C’s . . .
Not since the PipeFest competitions in Chicago in the early-1980s has such a large total of prize money been on offer for winning pipe . . .
Results were fairly scattered at the 10th annual Duncan Johnstone Memorial Solo Piping Competition at the National Piping Centre, but it was Craig Muirhead who had . . .
Roasting temperatures made the band competitions at Bathurst a challenge, but the relatively small event held at the Scots School about two hours . . .
These days it’s all about getting attention for your event, whether through rich prize-money, creative approaches or, as in the case . . .
The Glenfiddich Invitational Championship, considered by most as the apex of the solo piping year, has added two more events to the list of competitions from which the winners will garner an . . .
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Boghall & Bathgate Caledonia has withdrawn from the March 20 Invitational Indoor Pipe Band Competition in Glasgow, but Torphichen & Bathgate has stepped .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.