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Completes two-year stint as head of National Council
Celtic Connections, one of the world’s largest Celtic music festivals, is happening in Glasgow over the next three weeks and Piper & Drummer Online has asked Michael Grey of Dundas, Ontario, to report on a few piping events. Celtic Connections – The Afternoon Piping ConcertField Marshal Montgomery Pipe Band, Gordon […]
With this issue, the Piper & Drummer celebrates its twentieth anniversary. Actually, the magazine started in 1981 as the “Canadian Piper & Drummer,” an eight-page digest-sized booklet. But a few issues were missed in the mid-1980s, and we’d prefer, as always, to be honest with ourselves. If we counted the […]
Scullion resigns for ‘personal reasons’; Orr takes spot
The piping and drumming world at large was shocked at the sudden passing of Lindsay Kirkwood of St. Catharines, Ontario. Lindsay died at the St. Catharines General Hospital on Monday, December 9, 2002. He was 43 years old. Lindsay was an outstanding solo and band piper from an early age […]
MacLeod takes Open; Gandy second in both events
William M. MacDdnald of Inverness, Scotland, has died after an illness. Affectionately known as “Watery Willie” – as a result of his career with the water works and to differentiate him from William MacDonald, Benbecula – Macdonald was one of the last surviving pupils of John MacDonald, Inverness, and extremely […]
Another Grade 1 leader gives up due to work commitments