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The College of Piping and Celtic Performing Arts of Canada in Summerside, Prince Edward Island, has started an official search for a new Executive Director to . . .
The 2008 RSPBA Grade 1 Champion of Champions St. Laurence O’Toole of Dublin have launched a new “Friends of the Band” program where supporters . . .
Composer and former member of legendar Edinburgh City Police Pipe Band dies at age 74
After separate general meetings, the Midlands and Glasgow & West of Scotland branches of the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association will take proposals . . .
The Grade 1 Dowco Triumph Street Pipe Band of Vancouver has come to terms on a sponsorship agreement with D&M Gannaway . . .
Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association Chairman Kevin Reilly has developed a “white paper” and, since May, 2008, has presented it to the various branches . . .
William Donaldson reviews ‘Dance to the Piper: The Highland Bagpipe in Nova Scotia’ by Barry Shears
With a new Pipe-Major, an influx of talent and a localized approach to membership, the Grade 1 Peel Regional Police Pipe Band of . . .
Reminiscent of the approach that the Spirit of Scotland Pipe Band took in early 2008, the “North American Pipe Band” has been formed in California from players . . .
In Part 1 and Part 2 of our exclusive interview with Gordon Parkes, he covered wide ground, including his formative years, the formation of Field Marshal Montgomery and his progression into judging, and several sensitive topics. Here, with the penultimate Part 3, Parkes discusses snare-drumming styles, the role of the mid-section, and the pros and […]
An invitation to perform at the 10-day-long 2009 Festival Interceltique in Lorient, Brittany, in August was too much for the Grade 1 Toronto Police Pipe Band to resist . . .
St. Valery: John Wilson hornpipe seems incongruous with monumental Allied defeat
What’s happening with Alberta Caledonia? There are reports that the band is suffering from a sudden lack of personnel, and even its once great website has been shut down for a month now. I hope the reports aren’t true. This has been one of the world’s really good Grade 1 […]
Iain Speirs of Edinburgh won his first Bratach Gorm, the premier prize at the Scottish Pipers’ Society of London’s annual . . .