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Alen Tully of Dublin was named Ireland’s Piper of the Year in the MSR contest that determines the winner at the annual event. The competition . . .
Twelve of the world’s most successful amateur players have been confirmed for the 2007 George Sherriff Memorial Amateur Invitational Solo Piping Competitions on November 17 at Convocation Hall at McMaster . . .
Alastair Lee of Coquitlam, British Columbia, (pictured, right) won the Piobaireachd and MSR and was second in the 6/8 Marches to take the overall award at the 25th annual Nicol-Brown Amateur Invitational . . .
The annual Royal National Mod was this year held in Lochaber, and Willie McCallum of Bearsden, Scotland, and Angus MacColl of Benderloch, Scotland, were most successful on the day, with . . .
At the band’s annual general meeting on October 14, the Grade 1 Alberta Caledonia Pipe Band of Calgary formalized the appointment of Sean Somers and Own Shaw as Pipe-Sergeants of the band, a position that . . .
The 35-year-old St. Louis-based Grade 4 Invera’an Pipe Band and cross-town Grade 4 rivals St. Louis Caledonian Pipe Band have formally decided to combine personnel . . .
After 10 years as Pipe-Major, Derick Wilson is moving over to hand the reins of the Grade 1 Fredericton Society of Saint Andrew Pipe Band of Fredericton, New Brunswick, to . . .
The Pipe Band Association of South Africa’s African Solo Drumming Championships were held at St. Benedict’s College and . . .
The popularity of the Red Hot Chilli Pipers is zooming, and the Scottish-based group of pipers and drummers, known for its clever adaptations of pop-songs, will release Bagrock to the Masses on . . .
Iain Robertson, previously Pipe-Sergeant, has taken over from Graeme Bilsland as Pipe-Major of the Grade 1 New Zealand Police . . .
Part 1 of Kylie and James MacHattie’s exclusive account of their 22-day Scottish camping-competing sojourn
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hit by the resignation of star instructors and recitalists Jim Kilpatrick, Tyler Fry and Scott Currie, all of whom have withdrawn from the 2008 faculty.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 . . .