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Jim McGillivray’s new series highlighting classic tunes starts with G.S. McLennan’s “The Braemar Gathering”
Following a formal request by two of Ontario’s four Grade 1 bands, the Pipers & Pipe Band Society of Ontario (PPBSO) has agreed to reduce the medley submission requirement . . .
After a few months’ hiatus, The Style Guy returns to tackle your sartorial uncertainties, including the ongoing question of what to do with long hair, civilians wearing military attire and, of course, waistcoats. Let’s see what’s in the post-box this time! Dear Style Guy: Long hair in a pipe band […]
I’ve been on sabbatical, gentle readers, and even you can understand that even Harry needs a break now and again. But I am back, and boy have I been busy, a fly on the wall, a mosquito under the kilt, a veritable midge in the ear of the world of […]
Allan Russell of Kelty, Scotland, was the overall winner of the solo piping at the Strathmore Games, held on the grounds of . . .
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After a brutally long winter the outdoor piping and drumming competition season in Ontario will begin on . . .
The online Celtic paid music downloading service, TradTunes, has shut down after its parent company decided to focus its business efforts . . .
On the heels of Simon Fraser University and Field Marshal Montgomery, the Los Angeles Scots Pipe Band have accepted the invitation to perform on August 11, 2008, at the now . . .
Allan Russell of Kelty, Scotland, took two of four first-prizes and two second-prizes at the Aberdeen Highland Games in . . .
Friday the thirteenth was a good day for Brian Donaldson of Newburgh, Scotland, after he gained the Donald MacDonald . . .
The four-time Grade 1 World Champions Simon Fraser University Pipe Band of Vancouver in the last few weeks have taken the wraps off of the first-ever pipe band video and . . .
The largest number of Grade 1 bands in recent memory has entered to compete for the North American Pipe Band Championship at the Glengarry Highland . . .
Testament to the increasing ability of skilled pipers to make a career out of their expertise, two significant . . .
St. Laurence O’Toole of Dublin came out first again in Northern Ireland, beating 2007 World Champions Field Marshal Montgomery in a . . .