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In the latest shake-up of top bands, Glenn Brown has stepped down as Pipe-Major of the Grade 1 Peel Regional Police Pipe Band, and John Cairns . . .
The prizes at the annual piping competitions at Dunrobin Castle in the north of Scotland were scattered, with Nathan Drysdale . . .
Sixteen bands from continental Europe competed at the annual Belgian Pipe Band Championships at the castle grounds of . . .
Xavier Boderiou of Brittany went away with the most overall success at the Pitlochry Highland Games, the traditional end of . . .
The Grade 3A Lanark & District Pipe Band, which lost Stuart Shedden as its Pipe-Major after the Cowal Championships, has appointed . . .
To every tartan there is a season. Turn! Turn! Turn! To every sporran there is a season. Turn! Turn! Turn! So let me take a turn to answer the many questions of serious piping and drumming style that have come my way over the past season . . . […]
David Anderson of North Berwick, Scotland, swept the Under-18 events at the annual Edinburgh Mod Piping Competitions, which attracted . . .
Sean Somers, the former Pipe-Sergeant of the Grade 1 Alberta Caledonia Pipe Band, has been made Pipe-Major of the Grade 3 Rocky Mountain . . .
George Stewart of Perth, Scotland, was the overall winner of the solo piping events for players aged 13 to 16 . . .
Trend-spotting is a fairly recent phenomenon. The practice has accelerated in our media-rich, cyber-linked modern world. Oh, one may quibble that even early humans tracked trends . . . “Memo to self. I note that those go-getter Cro-Magnon (or is it Cro-Magna? I always forget) are expanding into the […]
Simon McKerrell reviews Along the Road, the new collection from Iain MacDonald, Saskatchewan
The 10 competitors for the 2008 Glenfiddich Invitational Solo Piping Championships have been invited and confirmed, and this . . .
The Grade 2 Lomond & Clyde Pipe Band of Clydebank, Scotland, which saw its Pipe-Major, Paul Warren, and Lead-Drummer
Do pipe bands as a rule encourage players to compete in solo events? Do these events make them better band players? The world’s pipers and drummers respond.
Bruce Gandy of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, won both the Piobaireachd and the MSR events at the annual Canadian Police Memorial . . .