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Ian Duncan These days, if someone plays with a band for five straight years, they’re a veteran. Considering that Ian Duncan was with the Vale of Atholl Pipe Band for 36 years – 26 of those as Pipe-Major – he is an extraordinary exception to the conventions of modern bands. […]

Bolsters corps after leaving Field Marshal

Previous report confirmed as hoax

EUSPBA hosts Atlanta summit

Discussions on North American World’s qualifier

Sharing agreement seen as step forward

Reynolds joins Scullion in Kilpatrick line

‘A New Pibroch’ to be performed with piper Michael Grey at CBC’s Glenn Gould Studio

Kansas City, Missouri – January 18, 2003 – The first annual Midwest Highland Arts Fund & Midwest Pipe Band Association United States Silver Medal Piobaireachd Competition was won here today by Kenneth Sutherland of California against of field of 24 other North American competitors. 1st Kenneth Sutherland, Menlo Park, California, […]

Completes two-year stint as head of National Council

A dispatch from Michael Grey in Glasgow

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

MacPhee rejoins band

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