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Tickets for Peoples Ford Boghall & Bathgate Caledonia’s “Cabar Fèidh” concert at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall on Wednesday, August 14th, have sold so fast that organizers warn that there are only about 25 seats left to see the 2023 World Pipe Band Champions in all their glory. Most consider […]
The Ottawa Highlanders ended the Peel Regional Police Pipe Band’s two-year-long string of consecutive victories on the Ontario circuit by winning the four-band Grade 2 competition at the remodelled “Northumberland Highland Games” in the small town of Port Hope on the shore of Lake Ontario. The event continues from the Cobourg Highland Games.
Wheaton, Illinois – June 14-15, 2024 – St. Thomas Alumni of Houston were the big winners at the 2024 Chicago Highland Games, winning Grade 1 against Florida’s City of Dunedin in warm and sunny weather at DuPage County Fairgrounds on the north side of the city. A total of 38 […]
Artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to impact just about everything humans do whether we like or want it or not, and Canadian Scott Haynes, an accomplished piper who’s been a member of bands like Boghall & Bathgate Caledonia and the 78th Fraser Highlanders, might be the first to apply AI […]
The British Columbia Pipers’ Association was officially started in 1932, making it one of the world’s oldest piping and drumming organizations. With roots dating back to 1905 with the Pipers’ Society and the Vancouver Pipers’ Society in 1921, the BCPA today has about nearly 500 members and almost 20 competing […]
Forty-one bands across all grades and nearly 550 solo piping and drumming competition performances are on tap for Friday, June 14th, and Saturday, June 15th, for the annual Chicago Highland Games, a relatively young event that is already one of the largest in North America. A feature of the competition […]
The new European Knockout Bagpipe Competition, with the tagline “Bringing Europe’s Best Pipers Together,” is scheduled for March 22, 2025, at a location to be determined in Germany. According to piping impresario Eric Stein, who’s organizing the new event, the European Knockout Bagpipe Competition is being modelled after the Eurovision […]
Pipe band drumming legend J. Reid Maxwell received his official honourary degree for his lifetime of service to the art today by Simon Fraser University at the university’s convocation ceremony in Burnaby, British Columbia, along with nine other individuals with a similar level of accomplishment in research, writing, music, cultural […]
The Pacific Northwest piping and drumming scene has a particular way of turning grief into gratitude. In 1994, the sudden deaths of pipers Malcolm Bokhenforh and Rob Barbelak resulted in the formation of the wonderfully successful Robert Malcolm Memorial Pipe Band organization, a teaching effort that has realized hundreds of […]
Dubbed “The Bang in Penang,” the Southeast Asian Championships were held on the grounds of the historic St. Xavier’s Institution in Georgetown, a departure from the usual venue in Singapore.
Nick Hudson of Houston won the U.S. Piping Foundation’s annual Maclean Macleod Solo Piping Competition, held at the Amy E. du Pont Music Building at the University of Delaware.
We’re pleased to bring pipes|drums viewers videos of the performances by the six bands playing in the Grade 2 MSR competition at the 2024 Georgetown Highland Games in Georgetown, Ontario.
The Peel Regional Police Pipe Band won the top contested event at the annual Georgetown Highland Games, which traditionally begins the outdoor contests season in Ontario. The weather was mostly sunny, with temperatures around 20°C to start, but things clouded over in the afternoon, and the wind whipped up, with a few light showers cooling the day.
Against nine other Grade 1 bands, Peoples Ford Boghall & Bathgate Caledonia won the 2024 British Championships. Grade 2 went to Glasgow Skye Association.
The British Championships at Forres, Scotland, and the United States Piping Foundation’s Maclean Macleod Memorial Piping Championships in Delaware are the big events in the piping and drumming world taking place on Saturday, June 8th. The British Championships are the second of five Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association major competitions, […]
In the penultimate Part 4, Cusack talks about the St. Thomas Episcopal School operation, inspiring students, the team buy-in required to be successful, and being a pipe band in football-mad Texas.