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Bagad Cap Caval won the Breton Winter Championships here today, the first phase of the Breton National Championships. Cap Caval rose above 13 other Breton pipe bands to take the event. The top seven from the contest go through to compete . . .
The Grade 1 Manawatu Scottish Pipe Band of New Zealand has finalized an endorsement deal with the St. Kilda Group of Glasgow that will see the band covered for at least three . . .
After almost 30 years of being run by the John MacFadyen Memorial Trust, the Silver Chanter Invitational Piping Competition will be organized by the Isle of Skye Piping Society . . .
The Ottawa-based piper provides us with his five favourite music recordings of all time
2006 World Solo Drumming Champion Steven McWhirter and 2007 Clasp-winner Stuart Liddell will join several piping and drumming friends in April to walk the 95-mile-long West Highland Way to raise funds for the Novice Juvenile-grade . . .
The band of premier pipers and drummers with Roddy MacLeod as pipe-major that was announced in January has confirmed a sponsorship deal with Glenfiddich, with the group called the . . .
A strong turnout of pipers younger than 18 competed at the annual Strathclyde Police Pipe Band Junior Solo Piping Competitions, held at Smithycroft . . .
We revisit our panel’s prognostications from last year and tally up the results!
by Harry Tung Have mercy, Miss Percy, but it has been a long time since I updated my column. I do apologize for my sloth, but I needed some down-time after such a hectic season. I’m wintering in Australia just now, playing with a Grade 2 band that will be […]
A new book of Highland pipe music compiled by Iain MacDonald of Regina, Saskatchewan, will include several previously unpublished compositions by Pipe-Major Donald MacLeod . . .
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 . . .