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Both Professional Solo Piping events at the United States Piping Foundation’s annual competitions at the Loudis Recital Hall at the University of Delaware were won by Bruce Gandy of Dartmouth . . .
Emily Kate MacLellan of Ottawa came away as the big winner wt the annual Veterans’ Memorial Games on a warm and sunny day. A few bands . . .
The fifth annual B In The Park in downtown Ottawa the day before the North American Championships at Maxville, Ontario, begin will again feature . . .
The Grade 1 Oran Mor Pipe Band of New York will compete in Grade 2 at the World Pipe Band Championships. Sources close to the band said, on . . .
Part 1: the early years, Johnny Barnes, loyalty and the formulation of the distinctive Shotts sound
Vale disqualified; Parkes does not play with FMM
Pipe-Major William James MacLeod died earlier this week in Winnipeg, aged 94. As a young boy in the late-1920s, MacLeod received tuition on the pipes from his father, Donald MacLeod, which he absorbed eagerly, going on to win top awards both as an amateur and professional player. On September 2, […]
Rumours have already flown around following the British Pipe Band Championships on June 28th at Birmingham, England, at which Field Marshal Montgomery finished . . .
The Grade 1 Oran Mor Pipe Band of New York escaped injury and avoided any loss of equipment when the band’s bus caught fire and was destroyed as the group was . . .
Matt MacIsaac of Halifax, Nova Scotia, won all of the Professional solo piping events at the annual Summerside Highland Games. In the band events, Fredericton and Dartmouth each . . .
The “Pre-World’s Concert” is probably the most prestigious performances that a pipe band can be invited to stage, and the 2008 version of the Phoenix Honda-Glasgow Skye Pipe Band’s annual event will be put on by the House of Edgar-Shotts & Dykehead Pipe Band with a roster of members who . . .
Brett Tidswell of Adelaide won the Gold Medal Piobaireachd event at the annual R.U. Brown Piobaireachd Society of South Australia’s solo piping competitions at . . .
The Glasgow International Piping Festival, AKA Piping Live!, officially kicked off its fifth year with a sneak preview of the full agenda, which will include a focus on females in piping and a decidedly edgier feel with . . .
The Leading-Drummer of the Peel Regional Police selects his five very most favourite music recordings.
If everyone plays, the annual William Livingstone Sr. Memorial Invitational Solo Piping Competition on May 10th in Hamilton, Ontario, will feature its smallest . . .
A winter of hard work comes down to reality for many bands with the start of the outdoor competition season in the UK at Dunbar, Scotland, on May 10, which also marks the debut of the new Grade 1 Fife . . .