Archive
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.
The fall is the migratory season not only for birds, but also for pipers and drummers taking flight from one band to another, as they . . .
In the topsy-turvy world that is the Strathclyde Police Pipe Band, the latest blow is Pipe-Major Don Bradford’s resignation from the band . . .
Barry Wilson of ScottishPower has two straight World Solo Drumming Championships under his belt, and on Saturday, October 24th, he’ll . . .
Effective October 21, 2009, “the Strathclyde Police Pipe Band is over,” according to a source within the band . . .
By more than doubling the band’s pipe section since the end of the season, the Grade 3 Stuart Highlanders of Boston are looking to move to Grade 2 for 2010 . . .