Archive
An exclusive conversation with one of the world’s great contributors to piping on every level. The first of a five-part series.
Despite demands that Premier cease manufacturing, marketing and selling Craig Colquhoun’s bass- and tenor-drum products . . .
Alen Tully of Dublin was named the Northern Ireland Piper of the Year, by merit of winning the MSR event . . .
The Grade 2 Rocky Mountain Pipe Band of Calgary is hoping for greater success in 2010 with the addition of . . .
After thieves stole an entire trailer of toys on September 26th that was destined for needy kids, the Grade 1 Peel Regional Police Pipe . . .
A year after its implementation, the Eastern United States Pipe Band Association may discontinue its use of required tunes from a set list, similar to the RSPBA’s . . .
The Pipes & Drums and Regimental Band of the 48th Highlanders of Canada have played at the Toronto Maple Leafs’ home opener of the National Hockey . . .
Anthony Masterson of Houston was the overall winner of the Nicol-Brown Amateur Invitational, the long-running competition for . . .
Angus MacColl of Benderloch, Scotland, was the overall winner of senior solo piping events at the Royal . . .
The 10 competitors for the Glenfiddich Invitational Solo Piping Championship on October 31st at Blair Atholl, Scotland, have been confirmed by director . . .
The National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland is collaborating with YDance and the Scottish Youth Theatre to stage an ambitious joint production of Robert Burns’s epic . . .
Donald Mackay, the former Pipe-Major of the Grade 1 Strathclyde Police Pipe Band who took them to several major championship victories . . .
Roderick MacLean reviews the re-released and updated 1987 collection by Ian and Gordon Duncan
Ex-Chairman of the RSPBA, Jim Cruickshank died suddenly at the age of 72 at the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary on the morning of October 15, 2009. He endured a stroke in Spain at in December 2008, and had fought back to good health until another stroke and a minor heart attack […]
Jim McGillivray continues his exclusive series with “Up To The Line”
The final part of our 1996 interview, in which Angus reflects on his life, his compositions and his future. A must-read.