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‘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, […]
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