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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 […]

In a statement to pipes|drums, the Strathclyde Police force has indicated that its world-class Grade 1 band “will continue to . . .

W.L. Gore, the company that introduced the first mass-market synthetic pipe bag in the mid-1980s, has announced that it is closing . . .

The collective power of online social networking properties like Facebook has been realized like never before in the wake of two . . .

The Governor-General of Canada, Micha?lle Jean, has accepted an invitation from Ottawa’s Grade 4 Sons of Scotland Pipe Band to be its patron, recognizing . . .

Willie McCallum of Bearsden, Scotland, was the overall winner of the annual Metro Cup Invitational Solo Piping . . .

Graham Drummond was the overall winner in the Under-18 category and Bradley Parker the aggregate Under-15 winner at the third annual . . .

Normally pipe bands are happy to bring in one or two pipe band drummers to teach pipe band technique, but the National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland is making an unusual . . .