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The Grade 1 Los Angeles Scottish Pipe Band has added to its roster with two front-rank pipers and a mid-section leader, with John Elliott, Alex Gandy and Andrew Elliott . . .
(First published February 2007) What’s all the fuss about size of bands? Impassioned posts abound on the subject, ranging from those proposing an RSPBA Committee on the Sustainability of Pipe Bands to those who suggest that the devil take the hindmost. We all are familiar with how we got here: […]
We regret to report the death of Walter Drysdale of Methil, Scotland, on November 27th, age 85, after a lengthy bout with illness. Drysdale was most known over the last 40 years for his judging around the Scottish games, and for his teaching. His pupils included many successful competitive solo […]
Timing is everything in piping and drumming, and the Simon Fraser University Pipe Band seemed to time everything just right in 2009, finishing the year with . . .
The old joke that a competition can be part “lottery” is being taken literally by the Niagara-Hamilton branch of the Pipers & Pipe . . .
Greig Sharp, best known as the founder and owner of Kintail Bagpipes, died on December 5th after a lengthy bout with lung cancer. Sharp learned the pipe-making trade working with Peter Henderson, of which he was manager in its final years before the company’s sale to R.G. Hardie & Co. […]
Glasgow’s long been the dominant area for solo piping and pipe bands in Scotland, but a recent resurgence of the scene in Edinburgh has caused a few top players . . .
With a total of 12 World Pipe Band Championships between them, a double-bill concert of Simon Fraser University and Field Marshal Montgomery would be considered . . .
In what is thought to be a first for the pipe band world, the draw for the March 20, 2010, Grade 1 Indoor Invitational Competition sponsored by the Grade 2 Lomond & Clyde . . .
A Pro and Con debate for and against adding a new, independent judge just for pipe band mid-sections
The Grade 1 Manawatu Scottish Pipe Band won its ninth consecutive Palmerston North Square Day Competition, edging Canetrbury Caledonian . . .
In another testimony to how far Highland piping has come, Decker Forrest, originally from San Diego, has been awarded a doctorate for his thesis, “Ce¨°l Beag: The Development . . .
As the St. Laurence O’Toole Pipe Band of Dublin marks a century of musical growth in 2010, the band has aptly named its August 11th Pre-World’s concert in Glasgow . . .
Although he does not describe his new retrospective CD as comprising “hits” from his last three major recording projects, Michael Grey’s new compilation, Unqualified . . .
Jim McGillivray continues his exclusive series with “The Dream Valley of Glendaruel”
Emigration to Canada and back to Scotland, the CPA, the Boycott Year and teachers judging pupils – a few of the topics in the third instalment of our exclusive interview.