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Captain Stuart Samson, Director of the Army School of Bagpipe Music, has been named a Member of the British Empire (MBE) as part of Queen . . .
St. Laurence O’Toole of Dublin continued its spectacular 2008 campaign by winning the All-Ireland Pipe Band Championship, beating Field Marshal . . .
Glorious sunny skies and temperatures around 22 degrees made the annual Kincardine Scottish Festival ideal for piping and drumming competitions in the morning and bands in the afternoon. The Scottish Lion-78th Fraser . . .
A grass-roots online petition intended to lobby the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association to reinstate Best Bass-Section awards at its major championships has gathered 688 names since its . . .
James and Douglas Murray did well on their home ground in the light music competitions at the Cupar Highland Games. Eighteen . . .
A critique by Roderick MacLean of Hugh Cheape’s new book on the history of the Highland bagpipe
The once mighty Dysart & Dundonald Pipe Band of Fife, Scotland, is planning to reform for the 2009 season after being forced to sit out 2008 due to . . .
The often salacious Delphi Beertent online forum has been put out of the piping and drumming world’s misery with its plug being . . .
Jim McGillivray continues his exclusive series with “The Battle of the Somme”
Part 2 of our exclusive interview with the long-time Shotts Pipe-Major, in which he discusses the McAllisters, the moves to and from Polkemmet, manufacturers judging, the RSPBA, Breton piping and much more.
Here’s the mail it never fails, it makes me want to wag my tail. Mail! Let’s open the letter sack and see what the sartorially challenged desperadoes of piping and drumming query of me . . . Dear Style Guy, The first question I have is regarding glengarry hats during […]
The first Grade 1 Champion Supreme event of the Ontario season was won by the Scottish Lion-78th Fraser Highlanders of Toronto, taking the medley contest against . . .
John Mulhearn of Glasgow collected the most aggregate points, including a first in the March, to take the overall trophy at the Stirling games held at . . .
After a successful 2007 debut, the invitational Lord of the Todd Challenge is once again being run, this time by Innovation, taking place at the Lord Todd Bar at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow . . .
Bruce Gandy of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, won both Open light music events and Andy Rogers of Fredericton, New Brunswick, took home the piobaireachd . . .
Adding to the increasing number of bagpipe supplies and Highland dress businesses that are sponsoring pipe bands, Moose Bagpipe Products of Melbourne, Australia, has struck endorsement deals with four . . .