Live-streaming – what’s wrong with this picture?October 31, 2022 In the pre-Internet days, we used to bemoan the sc …
Read more » | No CommentsBoiling over: for the sake of better music and good health, we need to change what we wearOctober 9, 2022 Wool-clad competitors huddle under available shade …
Read more » | No CommentsOpinion: The pipe band MSR doesn’t have to mean MiSeRyAugust 3, 2022 The numbers don’t lie. The pipe band march, strath …
Read more » | No CommentsGood, good, very good, excellent, good. Last. The pitfalls of performance positivity.July 7, 2022 It’s fashionable these days to stress the positive …
Read more » | No CommentsGuest editorial: Playing little gamesJune 28, 2022 By Martin Docherty The pre-competition scene at th …
Read more » | No CommentsOpinion: If there were ever a time to cap numbers, it’s nowMarch 22, 2022 Large bands that would reduce numbers by five or six would make a profound and lasting contribution to the greater good
Read more » | 3 CommentsOpinion: Isn’t it time we formally rewarded the difficult?February 11, 2022 It’s subjective judgment that always trips us up
Read more » | 2 CommentsOpinion: The Great Resignation can be our Great ResurgenceJanuary 10, 2022 There is an opportunity to reinvigorate in this most unlikely time
Read more » | No CommentsOpinion: Who will be Highland piping’s Paddy Moloney?November 26, 2021 We could really use such an unlikely superstar
Read more » | 4 CommentsOpinion: Instagram, competition, and the nonstop yearning for approvalOctober 24, 2021 The lessons of social media might be applied to our ultra-judgmental community
Read more » | 2 CommentsOpinion: Promising post-pandemic predictionsAugust 28, 2021 A few lines on the horizon . . .
Read more » | 1 CommentBiles and Osaka remind us there must be more to it than competitionJuly 29, 2021 Constantly putting ourselves and our art through a pressure-cooker ultimately drives many of us away
Read more » | 1 CommentOpinion: A band by any other name would play as sweetJuly 2, 2021 All the hue and cry over something that should stay the same because, well, it’s always been that way, lasts about a week before it’s a distant memory.
Read more » | 1 CommentOpinion: Extend an invitation, don’t wait for a secret knock on the clubhouse doorJune 1, 2021 Competitive piping and drumming stopped being “eth …
Read more » | 2 CommentsOpinion: Do we love our own music?May 1, 2021 Sure, but piping and pipe band recordings are rarely named in anyone’s list of favourite albums
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