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Glasgow’s National Piping Centre is looking for someone to fill the role of Development Officer after Megan Canning resigned after three years . . .
Brett Tidswell reviews the latest solo piping CD from Dr. Angus MacDonald
The Red Hot Chilli Pipers have been known for starting musical fires with their “bagrock” mix of piping and pop, and now . . .
The Glasgow piping community lost a wonderful player and teacher of the pipes with the death on the 25th of February 2010 of Kenny MacDonald. Kenny MacDonald won both Gold Medals and was a musician of the highest calibre who held the unique record of winning both medals with […]
We check in with the American-born, Canadian-experienced, Scotland-residing, FMM-playing, major-prize-winning, reedmaking-piper on a few of his experiences so far.
The Agnew-Harrison Memorial Solo Drumming Championship is now another example of the ever expanding popularity of bass- and tenor-drumming, as the contest this year will add mid-section solo events . . .
The annual Celtic Connections music festival this month will get an injection of Piobaireachd, but not in its staid, traditional sense, when Glasgow-based piper John Mulhearn . . .
The Grade 2 City of Chicago Pipe Band has a new Lead-Drummer, with Chris Barr taking the corps, replacing Martin Boyle. Barr comes to the band after several years’ as a snare . . .
After four months in the job, Kendra MacGillivray has resigned as Executive Director of the College of Piping . . .
The year past has been witnessed. The votes are in. The choices have been made. The 2009 pipes|drums New Year’s Honours have been decided.
The ongoing story of the viability of the Strathclyde Police Pipe Band continues this week, according to sources close to the matter, when remaining members of the band who . . .
Scotland’s Joint Committee for Judging has added four new pipers to its list of approved adjudicators, while also altering the status of two . . .
YOUR choices for Pipe Band, Piper, Drummer and Recording of the year
His return to Scotland, light music styles, pipe bands, reedmaking, the RSPBA, judging . . . the seven-page, near-5,000-words fourth instalment
The results from our 2009 study of pipe band competition, including the length of medleys, musical content, band formation and whether the old-Highland warhorse MSR should be sent to the glue factory.
Receiving the Queens Service Medal on December 31, 2009, for services to pipe bands, Jim Fraser passed away just five days later. Born on September 15, 1934, when Jim was six years old his father decided that Jim would learn the side drum – no option was given to […]