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The Australia Highlanders won the Victorian Championships in scalding 40-degree heat with winds creating even more challenging conditions. It was the seventh . . .
The Music Board of the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association has made a policy change that will see the elimination of awards for Best Bass-Section at . . .
The world’s bass- and tenor-drummers are rising up in an attempt to persuade the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association to rescind its decision to eliminate Best Bass-Section . . .
We uncover a 6/8 march by the great piper, transcribed in his own hand, and a photo of Willie and Cecily Ross
James P. Troy of Victoria, British Columbia, pulled off a rare feat by winning all three Professional solo piping events at the British Columbia Pipers . . .
The fall-out from the RSPBA’s decision to discontinue awarding Best Bass-Section prizes at major championships continues unabated, with allegations that the association might have tried to work the motion through . . .
The Piobaireachd Society has revealed the tunes set for the major competitions in 2009, and the lists include mostly well known pieces of ceol mor . . .
Within a day of each other, two spring piping and drumming events in the Toronto area have been cancelled due to lack . . .
The popular Malahide International Festival of Piping & Drumming has been cancelled reportedly due to financial problems . . .
Islay Jane Spalding is taking kilt-pins to new heights of originality
Alastair Dunn of Glasgow was the overall winner and recipient of the Bratach De Paor at the 11th annual Irish Piobaireachd Society Championships. Dunn won the Former Winners Piobaireachd and was second in . . .
Rare images of one of the most legendary figures in piping history, exclusively for p|d subscribers
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The RSPBA has decided to keep the World Pipe Band Championships in Glasgow, despite a strong bid from the city of Belfast, according to sources. The two cities competed for the competition, which has been . . .
Since the early 1990s the 78th Fraser Highlanders Pipe Band held a one-day workshop that typically strived top attract individual pipers and drummers, each one signing up for various classes with members of . . .