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Scotland is, if not unique, then certainly in limited company among the nations of the world in claiming as one of its national heroes a poet. Robert Burns is well known outside of Scotland, and his legacy to this day plays a large part in carrying a sense of the […]
And now, your latest installment of The Style Guy, your expert advisor for the cryptic world of Highland foppery, your sartorial sensation with all the right advice for those who think a philabeg is someone on a popular TV show featuring a psychologist doctor. The Style Guy helps with whatever […]
Late-June sees an abundance of new content on pipes|drums, in addition to the . . .
While 14 of the world’s best bands were competing at the British Pipe Band Championships in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, the Ohio Scottish . . .
by Harry Tung Helter skelter in a summer swelter. By jings it is hot just now on my holiday in Malta. At my various homes around the world there are 57 varieties of weather, with pishingness in the Highlands, broiling in Upper Canada and flooding in inland British Columbia. What’s […]
At the special request of the event’s organizers, renowned pipe band snare drummer Jim Kilpatrick is assembling a group of 15 drummers to perform . . .
The Grade 2 Transvaal Scottish Pipe Band dominated the top events at the South Coast Highland Gathering. The event is the first of three national championship gatherings . . .
Twelve-year-old Haley Brinton of Dunedin, Florida, will receive her prize Henderson bagpipe in a few weeks as the winner of the first-ever pipes|drums “Pimp My Bagpipe!” contest sponsored by . . .
Part 2 of our exclusive, plain-language, how-to guide to getting your band known so that it’s more likely to get what it wants
The “new edition” Grade 2 Triumph Street Pipe Band has confirmed that it will make the 4,000 kilometre trip to compete in the 2007 North American Pipe . . .
Two out of three events at the Highlands & Island Piping Competitions were won by Willie McCallum of Bearsden, Scotland, in . . .
The first significant solo piping event of the Ontario year will be held on Saturday, May 12, when the William Livingstone Sr. Memorial Invitation Solo Piping Competition takes . . .
The seven first-prizes were shared among five players at the annual Dr. Dan Reid Memorial Invitational Recital/Competition, an event that has no set criteria on which it bases its . . .
After a long winter of practicing, bands based in Great Britain and Ireland will be out with their new line-ups and music . . .
Welcome back to The Style Guy, your resource for all things sartorial when it comes to wearing the Garb of Auld Gaul. The Style Guy will make your old garb less galling. Does your kilt hang low? Does it touch the ground? Flashes too flashy? Waist-belt too skinny? The Style […]