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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 . . .

pipes|drums, the world’s only independent publication for pipers and drummers, on October 2, 2007, celebrated its first anniversary with a . . .

The Grade 1 Toronto Police Pipe Band, which won the 2006 North American Championship only to see its pipe section reduced to eight in 2007, has been working on a major rejuvenation and recruitment project . . .

When the Scottish Lion 78th Fraser Highlanders Pipe Band takes the stage of the Mississauga Living Arts Centre on November 17th with its production of “Seanchaidh,” the concert the band originally mounted in 2003 . . .

We continue our exclusive conversation with the legendary Field Marshal Montgomery Pipe Band Pipe-Major in Richard Parkes: The pipes|drums Interview

The Grade 3 Rocky Mountain Pipe Band of Calgary has appointed Ian Baxter as its new Pipe-Major. Baxter replaces Ross Barker, who . . .