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Good day, Highland fashionistas. I, The Style Guy, shall now peer inside my Victoria-era sporran, reputedly once owned by that well-endowed ghillie, John Brown, and which was reportedly rummaged in by none other than Queen Victoria herself, to ponder the latest missives from mystified readers. Let’s see now . . […]
We regret to report the passing on January 16, 2010, of George M. Bell, one of the most important piping figures in the North America, at age 83, after several years of intermittent illness. Originally from Glasgow, Bell started with pipe bands as a drummer in the local Boys’ Brigade […]
Willie McCallum emerged as the overall winner of the annual Gordon Duncan Memorial invitational solo piping competition, held . . .
The resurrection of the 25 years dormant Edinburgh-based Eagle Pipers’ Society came to reality when a large gathering met at the Scots Guards Club in the Scottish . . .
The highly popular Drumming for Drinks anything-goes freestyle pipe band percussion competition that has become a key event in Glasgow during the week preceding the World . . .
The Strathclyde Police Pipe Band was saved from the brink of dissolution this week after a meeting on January 19th and another on January 21st with the inspector . . .
In 2009 the Grade 1 Toronto Police Pipe Band made a trip to the Breton Pipe Band Championships and Inter-Celtic Music Festival in Lorient, Brittany, instead of the more . . .
Based on new criteria set by the sponsor of the trophy, the winner of the Hosbilt Cup for the Best Bass-Section in Grade 1 at the 2009 World Pipe Band Championships is . .
Jenny Hazzard reviews John Mulhearn and the Big Music Society, Classic Grand Theatre, Glasgow, Jan. 23, 2010
The Music Board of the Pipers & Pipe Band Society of Ontario has a new chairman, with Andrew Hayes taking the post after incumbent chair . . .
Ontario is down to only two confirmed Grade 2 bands after the reported collapse of the Niagara Regional Police Pipe Band following the departure of Pipe-Major . . .
Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon University has started a formal search to fill its Director of Piping position, which has been vacant since last fall following the departure of . . .
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 […]