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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
The well known piper Colin Craig died on Monday in New Zealand at the age of 87. Craig was famous for his compositions. His hornpipes, “Jimmy Blue” and “Outward Bound,” are staples in the repertoires of many pipers and other Celtic folk musicians. In 1978 Colin Craig won the Comunn […]
Glenn and Graham Brown have officially become Pipe-Major and Leading-Drummer, respectively, of the Grade 1 Peel Regional Police Pipe Band . . .
The renowned FMM Pipe-Major opens his thoughts and many of the secrets of his tremendous success in this 10,000-word three-part discussion.
Douglas Murray of Cupar, Scotland, was declared the overall winner at the annual Dunrobin Castle Piping Championship, a contest “open to all pipers who have not won the Gold Medal . . .
The Grade 2 Lomond & Clyde Pipe Band of Glasgow has changed leading-drummers, with Leslie Galbraith taking over the position . . .