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MacColl wins Silver Star; Greg Wilson A-MSR; Colin Lee Silver Medal
As part of the “Homecoming Scotland” celebrations, the Grade 1 Scottish Lion-78th Fraser Highlanders will travel to Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides . . .
Third time winning award for New Zealander; Colin Lee takes B-Grade March
A biographical tribute to the great piper on the 50th anniversary of his achieving the singular solo piping grand slam
Gordon Wlaker won the light music and Andy Rogers took the gold medal in the Piobaireachd at the celebrated Royal Braemar Highland Gathering, where the . . .
James MacHattie of Toronto was the winner of the overall trophy at the Blairgowrie Highland Games in cold and windy . . .
The Grade 1 band of the Windsor Police organization or Windsor, Ontario, has folded after an unsuccessful search for a replacement for Pipe-Major . . .
In this, an election year of the Untied States of America, so many bands also want leadership and change, change, change. So much so that I hear some pipe-majors are dressing up as a “hockey mom,” toting a moose-hunting rifle and extolling the virtues of procreation to bolster roster numbers […]
We are sad to report that Scott MacAulay died early on the morning of September 10, 2008, after an extended battle with cancer. The Director and Chief Executive Officer of the College of Piping & Celtic Performing Arts in Summerside, Prince Edward Island, since its inception in 1990, MacAulay was […]
The famous piper, pipe-maker, adjudicator and teacher Willie Connell died on September 10, 2008, after a long bout with cancer. He was 77. Born in Glasgow to a non-piping family, Connell took up the pipes at age 14, receiving tuition from David Panton, his father’s acquaintance. After only three months, […]
After its entire drum section left to join Grade 1 rival Fife Constabulary, the Clan Gregor Pipe Band of Scotland has made it clear that it is . . .
The Grade 2 Lomond & Clyde Pipe Band of Clydebank, Scotland, which took prizes in the grade this year at two RSPBA championships, is searching . . .
Pupils from three of Edinburgh’s top piping schools will go up against each other in competition at the Edinburgh Mod piping competitions on Friday, September 19th . . .
Andy Renwick has resigned as Pipe-Major of the Grade 1 Vale of Atholl Pipe Band and his successor is long-serving member and former . . .
Willie McCallum of Bearsden, Scotland, is making a habit of winning the annual Kintyre Piping Society Invitational . . .
Gorgeous artistic piping and drumming images by Ryan MacDonald exclusively for pipes|drums subscribers. Part 1 of the series.