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Who’s the winner? Three 2008 Scottish Grade 1 band performances to watch and vote on
After accounting professional Ryan McFarland crunches the numbers, is an accurate prediction of this coming Saturday’s Grade 1 result possible?
Colin MacLellan of Edinburgh is sharing his knowledge of piobaireachd by making recordings of his playing and lessons on the 2008 Silver Medal tunes set by the . . .
Robert Wiseman Dairies-Vale of Atholl is a band that is never afraid to try something new and the Scottish Pipe Band Championships . . .
Scotland’s Competition League of Amateur Solo Pipers (CLASP) has formed a new relationship with the Scottish Piping Society of London’s annual competitions and will for the first time offer events in November . . .
First-ever championships for Irish band; Shotts wins drumming
The first outdoor event of the Scottish solo season was held at Blair Atholl, and some 54 pipers turned up to . . .
The Dowco Triumph Street Pipe Band had a successful outdoor competition debut in Grade 1 by winning the March, Strathspey & Reel on the second day of the Costa Mesa . . .
The world’s pipers and drummers tell you how they feel about mid-section instruments and judging and how many bass and tenors should be allowed
The world’s community of tenor-drummers plans to boycott the entire 2008 competition season, if everything goes to the plan devised by two tenor-players . . .
For the last 12 years “Pipefest” has held events in various parts of the Scotland and the United States to raise money for cancer charities, but in 2010 the organization will attempt to unify . . .
The Pipes & Drums of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards’ CD, Spirit of the Glen, has been nominated for Album of the Year in the . . .
The 2007 World Solo Drumming Champion talks about the experience, the music, what needs fixing in today’s pipe band judging ¨C and offers subscribers one of his original snare scores
Willie McCallum of Bearsden, Scotland, won the annual Donald MacLeod Memorial Invitational Solo Piping Competition, an event that memorializes the great piper . . .
The 2008 World Pipe Band Championships will be without the reigning New Zealand Champions after the Manawatu Scottish has had to cancel its plans to make . . .
The Pacific Northwest-based Mastery of Scottish Arts, which organizes an annual star-studded school of piping and drumming and concert, has merged with the Washington-based Celtic Arts Foundation to form a much larger registered . . .