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The annual Pipers & Pipe Band Society of Ontario Adjudicators’ Seminar in Campbellville, Ontario, on April 21 covered a range of topics and focused particularly on the ensemble side of judging and brought accredited people out, despite it being held on th
After a little more than six months since its launch, pipes|drums has made further modifications designed to improve the reader’s experience . . .
It’s not unusual to piping and drumming that prospective students are attracted to those who have won the biggest prizes in the art. The value of winning a Highland Society of London Gold Medal at the Argyllshire Gathering or Northern . . .
2007 is another no-go for the Grade 1 Prince Charles Pipe Band of San Francisco, with the group has deciding not to compete at all. The organization’s Grade 3 and . . .
The 13th annual Hanover Indoor Competition attracted a record entry, with the Penetangore Pipe Band taking top honours . . .
Jonathan Greenlees of Lisburn, Northern Ireland, took home the Irish Silver Medal, in the annual piobaireachd event put on by the Irish . . .
The Piobaireachd Society’s intention when it included eight piobaireachds written in the last 50 years in its Senior list was to provide a mix of styles from some of the great pipe-music composers . . .
The Grade 2 Grampian Police marks its centenary year in 2007, setting it apart as one of the world’s . . .
Jock MacKenzie, bass drummer with the Grade 1 Manawatu Scottish Pipe Band of Palmserston North, New Zealand, died suddenly of a suspected heart attack on March 3, aged 61.
James and Kylie MacHattie, pipers with the Grade 1 Toronto Police Pipe Band for the past six years, have left to join the Grade 1 Scottish Lion-78th Fraser Highlanders Pipe Band in a move . . .
Will Nichols of Blaine, Washington, made British Columbia Pipers Association (BCPA) history when he won the BCPA Professional Piping Knockout Final at the . . .
The New Zealand Police Pipe Band won the New Zealand Pipe Band Championship under sunny skies against a field of four other Grade 1 bands. Still reeling . . .
Graham Brown of Milton, Ontario, was the winner of the 2007 Agnew-Harrison Solo Drumming Invitational, held before a capacity crowd at the Officers’ Mess of the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders of James Street . . .
The National Piping Centre and the National Trust for Scotland have combined to create an innovative new piping competiton . . .
We check in with the 23-year-old winner of the 2006 World Solo Drumming Championship . . .
Christopher Ross of Erbusaig, Scotland, and Alexander Levack of Maryburgh, Scotland, took home two first-prizes each in their contest categories . . .