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The Eastern United States Pipe Band Association (EUSPBA) has announced its regradings for the 2008 season and, along with five other bands in the lower grades moving up, the Oran Mor Pipe Band of Albany, New York, has been upgraded to . . .
At the annual Scots Trad Music Awards on December 1st in Fort William, Scotland, the Red Hot Chilli Pipers were named Live Act of the Year, after being nominated with the established Celtic folk groups . . .
The Pipes & Drums of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards have found themselves sandwiched between the unlikely combination of Celine Dion and Michael Buble at number 17 on the UK Pop Music Charts after the debut of the band’s CD, ‘Spirit of the Glen’ on the Un
The Toronto Branch of the Pipers & Pipe Band Society of Ontario (PPBSO) is planning to hold a new piping competition for “the top Grade 1 solo players in the province of Ontario.” The annual event is to be held in February . . .
The House of Edgar-Shotts & Dykehead Pipe Band is planning for one of its busiest off-seasons ever, with several concerts, performances and warm-weather trips that will bring . . .
The world’s pipers and drummers tell you how they feel about the size of pipe band sections, overall membership rosters, and competition circles
Joining the list of recently bands promoted to Grade 1, the Australian Pipe Band Association has moved the Band Club Sydney to the premier grade after its success . . .
After a hiatus in 2007, the Toronto Indoors Games will take place again in 2008, according to Pipers & Pipe Band Society of Ontario Toronto Branch President . . .
The Grade 3 Black Raven Pipe Band of Dublin raised several collective glasses to Jimmy Russell, the band’s former Pipe-Major, on December 8th to celebrate his . . .
Without the German and world piping and drumming communities coming to its rescue, the New Year might not have happened at all for the Bagpipe Association of Germany, which has been hit with a sudden debt of as much as €30,000 that . . .
While the northern hemisphere practices through its cold winter months, antipodean bands are in the middle of their competition season, and the Manawatu Pipe Band won the overall Grade 1 title at the annual Highland Square Day at Palmerston North . . .
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 . . .