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The paparazzi, the limos, the autograph-hounds: it’s not easy being a military pipe band these days. And balance that with the Grade 2 Pipes & Drums of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards serving in active duty in Iraq . . .
The Northern Meeting Piping Competitions ¨C generally referred to by pipers as “nverness” ¨C will return to Eden Court Theatre in Inverness after residing in Aviemore for the last three years while the theatre . . ..
The 9 million or so people who populate the area around the city of Toronto have a rare opportunity to choose from two major piping and drumming events occurring . . .
Ben McClamrock of Baltimore was the overall winner of the 2007 George Sherriff Memorial Amateur Invitational Solo Piping Competition, held at McMaster . . .
Top-tier solo pipers Jack Lee and Willie McCallum have confirmed that they will travel to compete at the annual Metro Cup Solo Piping Championship February 16 . . .
Question: Before 2007, how many times had a father and son lead a corps to winning the Grade 1 drumming at the World Pipe Band Championships? Answer: only once. So, when Leading-Drummer Drew Duthart . . .
With the deadline for applications on November 30th, the Competing Pipers Association (CPA) has revealed that the organization’s new Grading Committee “is as international as it has ever been,” according to . . .
The participants in the second annual Gordon Duncan Memorial Invitational Solo Piping Competition have been decided, and they represent a cross-section of . . .
Tom Bowen provides an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the St. Laurence O’Toole Pipe Band before, during and after its November 10th concert in Pittsburgh
For all of you northern hemisphere types, you’ll be thinking of altering your Highland wardrobe this off-season: getting rid of those well-past-it-waistcoats, considering French cuffs, putting the finishing touches on your band’s most important ensemble – the uniform. The questions will abound. Fear not, dear readers. The Style Guy is […]
The 80-year life of Willie MacDonald, one of the world’s direct links to the teaching of John MacDonald of Inverness, will be celebrated on December 13, 2007, in Inverness . . .
The British Columbia Pipers’ Association recently tabulated responses from its second survey of members that it describes as “a comprehensive evaluation by . . . members of all . . . programs and services,” and, among other findings, results from 83 respo
Andy Rogers reviews the Scottish Lion-78th Frasers’ November 17th ‘Seanchaidh’ concert in Mississauga, Ontario
It’s nearly December and the Triumph Street Pipe Band of Vancouver is awaiting word from the British Columbia Pipers Association about whether it will be officially upgraded to Grade 1 after a . . .
David Anderson and Alexander Sime-Scott were the first-prize-winners in the Junior Solo Piping competition at . . .
Andrew Hayes of Ottawa was the aggregate winner of the annual Canadian Police Memorial Invitational Piping Contest, and event that helps to pay tribute to fallen Canadian emergency . . .