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We continue our exclusive interview with one of the world’s most active pipe band snare-drumming teachers and judges.
The Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association has denied the appeal to reinstate the Best Bass-Section awards at major . . .
Well, the weather’s colder and that means that the mainstream fashion world is making its annual “tartan / plaid is in” decree. They parade models around in frumpy woolens, only to decide, once again, that it’s a bad idea. We all know that only pipers and drummers should parade around […]
In a move that may mean the end of the Grade 1 Band Club of Sydney, Australia, as a top-tier competing band, pipes|drums has learned that the band’s parent organization has dismissed . . .
Despite the sponsor’s decision to make substantial changes to the Grade 1 Band Club Sydney, members of the group, including Pipe-Major Scott Nicolson . . .
The College of Piping and Celtic Performing Arts of Canada in Summerside, Prince Edward Island, has started an official search for a new Executive Director to . . .
The 2008 RSPBA Grade 1 Champion of Champions St. Laurence O’Toole of Dublin have launched a new “Friends of the Band” program where supporters . . .
Composer and former member of legendar Edinburgh City Police Pipe Band dies at age 74
After separate general meetings, the Midlands and Glasgow & West of Scotland branches of the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association will take proposals . . .
The Grade 1 Dowco Triumph Street Pipe Band of Vancouver has come to terms on a sponsorship agreement with D&M Gannaway . . .
Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association Chairman Kevin Reilly has developed a “white paper” and, since May, 2008, has presented it to the various branches . . .
William Donaldson reviews ‘Dance to the Piper: The Highland Bagpipe in Nova Scotia’ by Barry Shears
With a new Pipe-Major, an influx of talent and a localized approach to membership, the Grade 1 Peel Regional Police Pipe Band of . . .
Reminiscent of the approach that the Spirit of Scotland Pipe Band took in early 2008, the “North American Pipe Band” has been formed in California from players . . .
In Part 1 and Part 2 of our exclusive interview with Gordon Parkes, he covered wide ground, including his formative years, the formation of Field Marshal Montgomery and his progression into judging, and several sensitive topics. Here, with the penultimate Part 3, Parkes discusses snare-drumming styles, the role of the mid-section, and the pros and […]