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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.
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 . . . […]