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July 12, 2025

2025 UK Champions: St. Laurence O’Toole; Uddingston wins Grade 2; only 60 bands total

Edinburgh – June 12, 2025 – Dublin’s St. Laurence O’Toole won the 2025 UK Championships in a three-band Grade 1 MSR competition at the Royal Highland Showground in Ingliston, on the west side of Edinburgh, the first time a major RSPBA competition was held in Scotland’s capital city in decades.
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July 4, 2025

Golf: tailor-made for pipers and drummers

We continue to consider the parallels of piping and drumming and a good walk spoiled . . .
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July 3, 2025

Johnstone on the hunt for new lead-drummer; Orr to depart after 2025 season

Grade 1 Johnstone has started a search for a new leading-drummer after Gavin Orr announced he will resign after the...
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July 3, 2025

Third Kyle Warren music collection comes into Play this August

This August, Scotland’s Kyle Warren will release Play, his third collection of original compositions and...
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July 2, 2025

Gold Medallist Connor Sinclair featuring new-look Henderson pipes

As part of R.G. Hardie & Co.’s news that they’ve remodelled and narrowed their extensive line of...
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