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The great pipe band drummer William Graham “Kit” Reynolds died on February 2, 2009, after a brief illness at his home in Invergordon, Scotland. He was in his eighty-second year. Reynolds was born in Belfast on April 12, 1927. He started playing in the Belfast area in the 1940s, […]
The Pipers & Pipe Band Society of Ontario officially commenced its Education & Theory Program on January 31st at its headquarters in Milton, Ontario, with . . .
The recently formed North American Pipe Band has been made Grade 1 by its home organization, the Western United States Pipe Band Association . . .
Another top-level band will not be competing in 2009, with news that the Grade 2 Dartmouth & District Pipe Band of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, deciding to go on hiatus due . . .
A new organization has taken shape in the Fife region of Scotland with an objective of promoting piping and drumming . . .
Instead of waiting for interested kids to come to them, the Grade 2 Johnstone Pipe Band of Johnstone, Scotland, is doing things a little . . .
The Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association has notified its “international” judges that they have not been assigned to any RSPBA events in 2009, including several . . .
Bagad Cap Caval won won the first half of the 2009 Breton Bagad Championships, taking first in piping, bombards . . .
pipes|drums has learned that the three Australian judges on the RSPBA’s approved “international” panel ¨C Brian Niven, Nat Russell and Sam Young ¨C contend . . .
The Toronto Branch of the Pipers & Pipe Band Society of Ontario is having another go at resurrecting the once-vaunted Toronto Indoor Games, hoping that . . .
Part 2 of our unabridged 1989 interview with one of the great legends of the pipe band world
The Oran Mor Pipe Band of New York got that loving feeling the day after Valentine’s Day when the band gained . . .
The MacCrimmon Trophy competition at the annual Festival Interceltique in Lorient, Brittany, will see a return to a qualifying competition for UK-based pipers . . .
As of February 17, 2009, the one of the world’s most famous bands as we know it may be no more, after the Strathclyde Police force made a decision to halt the traditional activities of . . .
Pipe-Major Jimmy Pryde died on February 16, 2009, in the Scottish Borders after a lengthy illness. He was 79. Pryde was probably most famous for being the Pipe-Major of the Royal Scots Greys when the band reached international acclaim in 1971, scoring a number-hit with its rendition of “Amazing […]