Archive
A quarter of a century with one band is remarkable enough, but 25 years as pipe-major of a contending Grade 1 band is reason enough . . .
Iain MacDonald’s last report before the big event
Draw of the 14 Grade 1 bands to compete in the afternoon at Glasgow Green
Field Marshal Montgomery of Northern Ireland successfully defended its title and won the 2007 World Pipe Band Championship . . .
The number of visits to pipes|drums during “World’s Week” has broken all previous records, with August 11th, the day of the 2007 World’s, easily setting . . .
The end of the World Pipe Band Championships marks the roll up to the big Scottish solo piping contests, and the annual Piping Centre Invitational, the final event of the Piping . . .
Catherine Watt of River John, Nova Scotia, is the winner of the first pipes|drums “Predict The Six” competition, where readers were invited . . .
Our resident statistician, Tim Murphy, has considered the results from the piping judges at this year’s World Pipe Band Championships (made available to all by the kindness of the RSPBA) and . . .
The Scottish Piping Society of London is extending the entry deadline for its annual solo piping competitions so that pipers competing . . .
Sean McKeown, Toronto, Jori Chisholm, Seattle, and Alexis Meunier, Brittany, took the first-prizes at the Glenisla Highland Games, a popular . . .
Angus MacColl of Benderloch, Scotland, won two of the three solo piping events at the Glenfinnan Highland Gathering, held at the spot where Charles Edward Stuart . . .
Twenty-five solo pipers competed in weather unusually warm and sunny for the Scottish summer of 2007. Jori Chisholm of Seattle and Alan Russell of Kelty, Scotland, won . . .