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The annual Winter Storm Weekend has been hit by the resignation of star instructors and recitalists Jim Kilpatrick, Tyler Fry and Scott Currie, all of whom have withdrawn from the 2008 faculty. The three have stated . . .
Twelve hours after drummers Jim Kilpatrick, Tyler Fry and Scott Currie publicly revealed that they had decided to resign for the 2008 Winter Storm faculty, the not-for-profit Midwest Highland Arts Fund . . .
The annual Glenfiddich Invitational Solo Piping Championships on October 27th at Blair Atholl, Scotland, as always feature a cast of all-star pipers with most of the competitors familiar faces at the Great Hall of . . .
While the world’s top solo pipers vie for the Glenfiddich Championship at the magnificent great hall of Blair Castle, the world’s top pipe band snare drummers will ply their talents . . .
The two most important non-invitational events of the solo piping calendar for the world’s top pipers, the Argyllshire Gathering at Oban, Scotland, and the Northern Meeting at Aviemore or Inverness, Scotland, will be held once again only . . .
Barry Wilson, leading-drummer of the ScottishPower Pipe Band, won his first World Solo Drumming Championship, held for the first . . .
Gordon Walker of Galston, Scotland, won his first Glenfiddich Solo Piping Championship at the great hall of Blair Castle. Results from the Piobaireachd and MSR lists were varied . . .
To any organization that claims that there is no substantial money to be made from pipe band music, they may want to take not of the record deal that the Pipes & Drums of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards . . .
If you’re Jim Kilpatrick with 16 World Solo Championship titles and another 16 second-place finishes in the event, you almost automatically become the odds-on favourite to win the contest every year. That Kilpatrick would at least qualify for the Final is
With the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association’s official promotion of Cullybackey to Grade 1, the country of Northern Ireland with its population of 1.7 million has five bands in the premier grade. Cullybackey joins . . .
By Joel Kimball The descent occurred, as is so often the case, not in an instant, but over time, slowly, like a fall leaf loosing itself from the branch and lazily, gently twirling to rest on the ground. Looking up, the leaf can see the tree, yet it cannot […]
Richard Hawke of New Zealand won the Piobaireachd and John Angus Smith of London . . .
The usual large number of pipers turned out for the Blairgowrie Games on a dry, sunny . . .
You told us what you think of professional development for and testing of judges, and here are the illuminating results