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We conclude our exclusive interview with Ian Green, head of Greentrax Recordings and a leading light in the Scottish folk music industry.
The Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association has asked bands that have competed in recent World Pipe Band Championships . . .
Bruce Gandy of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, won the overall title at the annual Metro Cup piping competition, an event . . .
The world’s non-UK Grade 1 bands are making their travel plans for the northern hemisphere’s competition season and a few familiar names have already decided . . .
ScottishPower is the latest top-tier Grade 1 band to make a drumming hardware change, announcing that they have completed a sponsorship deal with Pearl Percussion that will see the band perform and compete with . . .
Norman Gillies, one of the best pipers of his generation, died peacefully on February 25 at his home in Ullapool, Scotland.
Keith Bowes was the overall Under-18 winner of the first annual Strathclyde Police Pipe Band Junior Solo Piping Competition held at Smithycroft School . . .
2006 World Pipe Band Champions Field Marshal Montgomery of Belfast have revealed that its deal with Premier Percussion announced in early February will last at least three years. The endorsement contract started . . .
Music For Everyone: The Fifth Collection of Tunes for the Highland Bagpipe Compiled by Michael Grey, reviewed by Richard Parkes
Glasgow National Piping Centre is further expanding its network of piping and drumming summer schools with the addition of a Winter School . . .
Twelve-year-old Haley Brinton of Dunedin, Florida, is the first-ever winner of the pipes|drums “Pimp My Bagpipe!” contest sponsored by R.G Hardie & Co . . .
Our panel of experts predict what the New Year will bring to the world of piping and drumming
The remaining members of the dissolved Robert Malcolm Memorial II Pipe Band (RMM2) have joined with the members of the Triumph Street Pipe Band of Vancouver to re-launch Triumph Street . . .