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Seven of the world’s top drummers, including three World Solo Champions, will offer their talents to charity when they take part in the second annual Charity Piping & Drumming Nite at the Royal . . .
The Grade 2 Dartmouth & District Pipe Band of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, has secured Jeremy White as its new Leading-Drummer. White was most recently head of the . . .
A review of the Red Hot Chilli Pipers’ ‘Bagrock to the Masses’ by a non-piper rock music enthusiast
Roddy MacLeod’s piobaireachd website, Roddy MacLeod Piobaireachd, has gone live after four months of planning and preparation. The site complements . . .
Possibly for the first time ever, two piping-related albums reached the UK’s official top 100 chart for sales, with the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards ‘Spirit of the Glen’ and the Red Hot Chilli Pipers’ ‘Bagrock for the Masses’ hitting . . .
At a special meeting called on December 30th, the Board of Directors of the British Columbia Pipers Association (BCPA) unanimously approved the promotion of the Triumph Street Pipe Band to Grade 1. The upgrade came after several months of the association
Bob Allen, who served as President of the Pipers & Pipe Band Society of Ontario from 1997 to 2005, was again elected to the position at the organization’s annual general meeting in Acton, Ontario. Allen won the post in an election against incumbent . . .
Chris Armstrong of Airth, Scotland, won the Bratach Gorm at the Scottish Piping Society of London’s competitions at London, and with the prize joins Gordon Walker of Galston, Scotland, as the second invitee to the 2008 Glenfiddich Invitational Solo . . .
We conclude our exclusive discussion with the renowned leader of the Field Marshal Montgomery Pipe Band in Richard Parkes: the pipes|drums Interview.
The Scottish Pipers Society of London competitions on November 3, 2007, were the last events in the long and storied career of Colin MacLellan, one of this era’s . . .
The well known piper, composer and teacher Bruce Gandy of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, lost untold original tunes, seminar notes and recordings from the last six years when his . . .
The Grade 1 Toronto Police Pipe Band has appointed the well known composer Michael Grey as its Pipe-Sergeant, as it continues to expand its ranks with addition of several new pipers . . .
We continue with Kylie and James MacHattie’s exclusive diary from their 22-day 2007 Scottish summer camping-competing Odyssey
Mike Baker reviews the St. Lawrence O’Toole concert, Carnegie Music Hall, Pittsburgh, Nov. 10, 2007