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About 90 solo pipers lucky enough to be accepted will compete at the Argyllshire Gathering in Oban, Scotland, Wednesday, August 22, and . . .
To many, Tom Anderson is a legendary figure in the piping world, and the Georgetown Pipe Band of Georgetown, Ontario, he is their new Pipe-Major. Anderson has agreed to take over the leadership role after the band’s . . .
Richard Hawke of New Zealand was awarded the Highland Society of London’s Gold Medal for Piobaireachd at the Argyllshire Gathering today. It was the first Gold Medal . . .
The second day of the Argyllshire Gathering was held in “good piping weather” at Mossfield Park. Results were varied through the light music events. Two very notable things . . .
The world-class pipers James Murray and Andrew Mathieson will be Pipe-Major and Pipe-Sergeant, respectively, of a new band forming in the . . .
Two days after winning the Argyllshire Gathering Gold Medal, Richard Hawke of New Zealand kept . . .
Field Marshal Montgomery won the Cowal Pipe Band Championship under drizzly conditions. Culleybacky took . . .
The Competing Pipers Association (CPA) met for its annual general meeting in Glasgow on August 26th and the 20-odd members . . .
Jori Chisholm of Seattle and Niall Matheson of Inverness, Scotland, took the first prizes at the Invergordon Highland Games on a sunny . . .
Alexis Meunier of Brittany was the biggest winner at the new Falkirk Wheel Highland Games in central Scotland, winning two events and placing third . . .
The Northern Meeting once again will welcome almost 100 of the world’s elite solo pipers in a two-day competition in Aviemore, Scotland, just . . .
Iain Speirs of Edinburgh achieved the Highland Society of London’s Gold Medal for Piobaireachd at the Northern Meeting today, adding to the Argyllshire Gathering Gold . . .
The second day of the Northern Meeting at Aviemore, Scotland, saw Stuart Liddell of Inveraray, Scotland, win his first Clasp, the contest reserved for those . . .
In a country whose substantial piping and drumming history started only with the Great War, four generations of top-level pipers and drummers in a single family are rare, and three . .
The Piobaireachd event at the Cupar Highland Games was won by Gordon McCready of Renfrew, Scotland, who . . .
Due primarily to the dramatic rise in popularity of the annual solo piping competitions in London, the Scottish Piping Society of London has decided to move this year’s November 3rd event to . . .