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We now gaze into the pipes|drums crystal ball to see what’s on the 2008 horizon. We’ve polled a team of select experts from the pipes and drums arts, and now provide our . . .
Matt Carter, leading-drummer of the Grade 1 Fredericton Society of St. Andrew Pipe Band for the last 12 years, has left to join the Grade 1 78th Highlanders (Halifax Citadel) Pipe Band. Carter will . . .
Dr. William Donaldson, author of the seminal Set Tunes Series on pipes|drums and ‘The Highland Pipe & Scottish Society,’ has worked with the National Library of Scotland to make four classic and rare piobaireachd . . .
The organizers of the Midwest Highland Arts Fund’s 2008 Winter Storm weekend are set for record attendance at the event, running from January 11th to 13th in Kansas City, Missouri. Now in its seventh year . . .
After a year in Grade 1, the Fredericton Society of St. Andrew Pipe Band has formally asked the Atlantic Pipe Band Association to assign it to Grade 2. In a statement to pipes|drums, the band cited . . .
The seventh annual Midwest Highland Arts Fund Winter Storm piping and drumming competitions were held at the Marriott¨CCounty Club Plaza hotel with a large entry in all events. Jori Chisholm, Seattle, and Bruce Gandy, Dartmouth . . .
Only two full days after the Grade 1 Fredericton Society of St. Andrew Pipe Band voted as a band to submit a formal request to the Grading Committee of the Atlantic Canada Pipe Band Association, the band . . .
A band of all-star pipers and drummers has been formed, with Roddy MacLeod as pipe-major and John Fisher as leading-drummer, featuring a roster that reads like a who’s who . . .
Part 2 of our historical August 1990 exclusive interview with one of piping’s legendary figures. Among many other topics, he discusses changed playing styles in bands, light music and piobaireachd. Sound files are included!
Glasgow’s Celtic Connections music festival, the annual winter music celebration in Scotland’s biggest city, begins its 10-day piping program on . . .
The Grade 2 St. Andrews Society of Winnipeg Pipe Band completed two concerts in their home town at the Jubilee Theatre to large houses on January . . .
Innovation Promotions, a new business launched in early January by Jim Kilpatrick, Tyler Fry and Scott Currie, has secured its first event, a weekend of drumming instruction followed by a competition in London, Ontario. The May 3-4, 2008, event is being p
Sandy Keith reviews the Jan. 19th House of Edgar Shotts & Dykehead concert in Orlando
When the Boghall & Bathgate Caledonia Pipe Band takes the stage of the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall on Saturday afternoon as part of Celtic Connections’ annual pipe band concert, the . . .
With a January 24th performance at Robert Redford’s Sundance Film Festival under its belt, Lorne Cousin’s new “bagpipe supergroup,” DRAM!, is setting out to change the way the . . .