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An invitation to perform at the 10-day-long 2009 Festival Interceltique in Lorient, Brittany, in August was too much for the Grade 1 Toronto Police Pipe Band to resist . . .
St. Valery: John Wilson hornpipe seems incongruous with monumental Allied defeat
What’s happening with Alberta Caledonia? There are reports that the band is suffering from a sudden lack of personnel, and even its once great website has been shut down for a month now. I hope the reports aren’t true. This has been one of the world’s really good Grade 1 […]
Iain Speirs of Edinburgh won his first Bratach Gorm, the premier prize at the Scottish Pipers’ Society of London’s annual . . .
After the RSPBA’s March 2008 decision to drop the Best Bass-Section awards from the three major championships at which they were offered, the decades-long tradition . . .
The Band Club, Sydney won its first Grade 1 Australian Pipe Band Championship against three other bands. The band also . . .
No fewer than seven piping and drumming events and artists have been nominated for this year’s Trad Music Awards, a people’s choice contest . . .
One of the world’s leading pipe band drummers opens up to pipes|drums subscribers in an exclusive four-part conversation
Prince Edward Island’s College of Piping is in the midst of one of probably the biggest fund-raising campaigns in the history of piping and drumming as it plans to . . .
The bass and tenor drummers of the 2008 World Champion Simon Fraser University Pipe Band have been chosen by readers of pipes|drums to receive the 2008 Hosbilt Cup . . .
The thirteenth annual George Sherriff Memorial Amateur Invitational Solo Piping Competition on Saturday, November 15th, in Hamilton, Ontario, will see 12 of . . .
Tangi le Boucher, the leading-drummer of Bagad Cap Caval, Grade 2 winners at the 2008 World Pipe Band Championships, won the . . .
Ian Swinton, a living legend in North American pipe band circles, has announced that he is retiring from competition after 34 years with . . .
John “Jackie” Fair, long-time bass-drummer with the Clan MacFarlane Pipe Band of St. Catharines, Ontario, died on November 12, 2008, after a protracted battle with cancer. Fair was a founding member of Clan MacFarlane in the 1950s, after a contingent of members of the Shotts & Dykehead Caledonia Pipe […]