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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 . . .
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The St. Laurence O’Toole Pipe Band of Dublin took home the top prize in Grade 1 at the tenth annual Malahide International Festival of Piping & Drumming. SLOT beat the . . .
The Winchester Games continues to expand with a larger entry from soloists, with the band events delayed in order to complete the individual contests. Good weather . . .
With wins in both events at the William Livingstone Sr. Invitational Solo Piping Competition, Ian K. MacDonald of Whitby, Ontario, was the certain overall winner of the event . . .