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At a meeting of the RSPBA’s Music Board on January 17th, a proposal from the association’s Glasgow & West of Scotland Branch to consider . . .
The piping community in Western Canada lost one of its leaders with the death of Marlene Stephen on Monday, January 19th, at the age of 61. Marlene was the President of the Prairie Pipe Band Association of Manitoba for a number of years, and was well known to pipe band […]
The August “Pre-World’s Concert” in Glasgow by 2008 World Champions Simon Fraser University has been expanded . . .
Alexis Meunier of Brittany won all three sections of the third annual Gordon Duncan Memorial Invitational Solo Piping . . .
The Pipers & Pipe Band Society of Ontario will introduce the first stages of its Education & Theory program at an introductory . . .
Part 1 of a full transcription of a 1989 conversation with the late famous piping icon
The Piping Live! International Piping Festival will be held for a sixth consecutive year, it was officially announced, with . . .
TenorDrumming.com, a new website aimed at the world’s community of pipe band tenor drummers, has launched, with news, features, forums, and downloads . . .
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 . . .