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The 60-year history of the Maple Ridge Pipe Band has come to end, but in name only, as the Grade 2 group will now be known as . . .
Ten pipers competed at the annual Irish Silver Medal Competitions, and John Leamy took home the big award. Both events . . .
Glengarry County, Ontario, native and former Clan MacFarlane Pipe Band pipe-sergeant Bob MacCrimmon has been inducted into the Glengarry Music Hall of Fame, along with . . .
We uncover details and images from the auspicious night in Edinburgh
The Argyllshire Gathering at Oban has released its list of competitors accepted to its 2008 competitions and, as always, those who made the lists will be pleased, while those not included will be . . .
In what is thought to be a first in the band’s long history, the Grade 1 Lothian & Borders Police Pipe Band will perform a full-length concert in Larne, Northern Ireland, on . . .
Pipe band legend John Kerr “J.K.” McAllister died peacefully last night at his home in Shotts, Scotland. He had been in failing health for some time. As Pipe-Major of the Shotts & Dykehead Caledonia Pipe Band he won four World Championship titles, all of them consecutively from 1957 to 1960, […]
We conclude our 1990 interview with one of piping’s legendary figures: a man whose influence on the art is felt today throughout the piping and drumming world.
Northern Ireland’s Grade 1 Ballycoan Pipe Band plans to take the wraps off of numerous new elements at a concert in Lisburn, Northern Ireland, on . . .
The annual general meeting of the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association on March 8th at the Quality Inn Hotel in Glasgow had approximately 40 bands represented, lasted only an . . .
The Gold Medallist FMM Pipe-Sergeant lists his five most favourite CDs
The well known Scottish piper and piping judge George Summors died on the night of March 11 at the age of 69. He had been in ill health for some time. Summors, the younger brother of Norman Summors, was best known in his latter years for his work with the […]
Germany’s Highland piping scene continues to expand dramatically in terms of numbers and quality, and the annual competition 125 kilometres north of Frankfurt in Karlsruhe . . .
The fiddle and accordion society, Chiltern Traditional Music & Dance, has announced a tune-composition contest open to Scottish fiddlers and Highland pipers alike with a total prize purse of . . .
The recently elected President of the Competing Pipers Association discusses his organization and the state of competitive solo piping in the UK