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The Windsor Police Pipe Band of Windsor, Ontario, is the latest non-UK Grade 1 band to cancel plans to travel to Scotland to compete at the 2008 World . . .
The recently announced Innovation London 2008 workshop for pipe band drummers will also include a new . . .
Scotland’s First Minister Alex Salmond surprised the Red Hot Chilli Pipers last week with a presentation of the band’s first platinum disc as the group . . .
For one of the few times in RSPBA history a new band has been assigned to Grade 1, with the Spirit of Scotland Pipe Band to . . .
The Grade 1 City of Washington Pipe Band of Washington, DC, is preparing for the 2008 competition season with the most change the band has seen . . .
A new pipes|drums feature in which we ask famous pipers and drummers to open their instrument case and let us in on their secret ingredients for success
Pipe band will soon be able to more easily customize their ensemble sound with Premier Music International of England and Hosbilt of Tiverton, Ontario, extended their . . .
Some 33 accredited piping and drumming adjudicators attended the Pipers & Pipe Band Society of Ontario’s 2008 Judges’ Seminar in Milton, Ontario, as part of the organization’s ongoing . . .
Mainstream news outlets are using a an advance promotional blurb sent out by the publisher on new book by the well piping historian Hugh Cheape as an . . .
Dr. William Donaldson’s groundbreaking book, The Highland Pipe & Scottish Society, 1750-1950, has been released in paperback in its second printing . . .
The 60-year history of the Maple Ridge Pipe Band has come to end, but in name only, as the Grade 2 group will now be known as . . .
Ten pipers competed at the annual Irish Silver Medal Competitions, and John Leamy took home the big award. Both events . . .
Glengarry County, Ontario, native and former Clan MacFarlane Pipe Band pipe-sergeant Bob MacCrimmon has been inducted into the Glengarry Music Hall of Fame, along with . . .
We uncover details and images from the auspicious night in Edinburgh
The Argyllshire Gathering at Oban has released its list of competitors accepted to its 2008 competitions and, as always, those who made the lists will be pleased, while those not included will be . . .