Recorded live online solo competitions for amateur pipers 18 and older.

Recorded live online solo competitions for amateur pipers 18 and older

Recorded live online solo competitions for amateur pipers 18 and older

PPBSO band and solo competitions for all grades, except Professional. (Tentative)

19th Annual Balmoral Classic - November 14-16, 2025
Friday 14 Nov., The Pittsburgh Piping Society and Balmoral School of Piping & Drumming co-host an informal gathering at the Pitch on Butler.
Saturday 15 Nov., the US Junior Solo Bagpiping and Snare Drumming Championships will be held in the Cathedral of Learning on the University of Pittsburgh campus. Piping judges are Bruce Gandy, Lezlie Webster, and Glenna Mackay Johnstone. Snare drumming judges will be Gordon Bell and Miles Bennington.
Concert - Sat. Nov. 15 Carnegie Mellon University Pipes and Drums joined by guest artists Bealtaine, plus Scottish and Irish dancers. Starts at 7:30pm at the Carnegie Library Lecture Hall, Pittsburgh, PA. Tickets at https://www.showclix.com/event/cmupipes-classic-concert
Sunday morning, November 16th, Bruce Gandy will present a piobaireachd workshop for competitors and invited guests.

Senior and Junior Piping competitions annually held at the oldest games on the Isle of Lewis (est. 1911)
MSR
Hornpipe and Jig
Pipers Choice Medley( 3 tunes of which one should be a 6/8 March)
Open to the field.
Competition commences 1.30pm and register on the day.

Solo competition for pipers 25 and younger.

All grades.

Organised by the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association Northern Ireland Branch and supported by Antrim & Newtownabbey Borough Council.

Celebrate Scottish culture at the Saskatchewan Highland Gathering with music, dancing, heavy events, food, and a Celtic market—fun for the whole family!

One of the premier highland games on the west coast, the 128th British Columbia Highland Games begins on Friday evening, June 20 with open piobaireachd, a whisky school, official opening ceremonies and live Celtic music in the Big Tent.
On Saturday, June 21, the BC Pipers' Assn. sanctioned highland games begin, with solo piping and drumming, the Vancouver Open Highland Dancing championship, pipe band competitions, including an RSPBA-certified panel for Grade II. Following massed bands, Finlay MacDonald and Ali Hutton will perform in the Big Tent with live Celtic music all evening. Also, REMAX Scottish Heavy events, cultural education workshops, kids activities, food and merchandise vendors.

NORTH OF 60? THIS NIGHT IS FOR YOU!

Are you eligible for CPP? Haven’t competed solo for years? Or never competed? Want to get together with other oldtimers and have some fun playing pipes? Still love to play and don’t want to play in a solo competition? Then we need you! The inaugural meeting of the “North of 60 Pipers’ Club”.

Put this on your calendar:

Saturday, April 26, 2025, 7:00 p.m.

Place: Seaforth Armoury, Sergeants’ Mess/Anderson Room

Cost: Free admission for everyone (including those under 60!) The mess bar will be open. All are invited — including our younger colleagues.

All “North of 60” pipers, not currently competing solo, bring your pipes and have a tune! Here’s what is planned:

Every eligible piper (we will be checking ID!) will be encouraged to have a tune or two of whatever they want — just for fun. Maximum 6 minutes from the time you blow up. Play anything.

This is NOT a competition.

Rules:

There are no rules.

But here’s the rules:

1. Must be CPP eligible to play.

2. No kilts allowed.

3. Gracenotes optional — nobody will be counting.

4. No recording without permission of the performer.

5. Must enjoy yourself — there will be a test at the end of the evening.

We very much appreciate the kind hospitality and cooperation of the Seaforth Highlanders in providing such a spectacular venue for an evening to meet our friends and to play pipes for fun. Hope you can make it!

Hal Senyk/Owen Reid/Jack Cairney

Solo Bagpipe and Quartet Competition. Unsanctioned. Prize money for top 3 quartets ($250,$100,$50 USD). This is held in conjunction with the Decatur Celtic Festival. Decatur, TX is a short drive NorthWest of Dallas/Fort Worth Airport.

Grade 1 - 4, Light Music and Piobaireachd, Grade 5 Chanter, Quartet Medley Competition.

Full band indoor competitions

The Pittsburgh Piping Society and Carnegie Mellon University will host the 3rd Annual
Jimmy McIntosh MBE Piobaireachd Workshop from February 21-23, 2025. The workshop will be held at
Carnegie Mellon University’s Cohen University Center, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213.
Pipers of all competitive grades are welcome, with the requirement that each attendee can already
play at least one piobaireachd. Members of the public may register as ‘observers only’ as space
allows.

RNZPBA Annual General Meeting

Held the weekend prior to the National championships in Invercargill, we look forward to bands travelling south for the week.

Pipes in the Park is a celebration of Scotland, in the heart of Wellington.  Contest registration is now open.

Waikaraka Park Captain Springs Road Onehunga

Election of officers and directors and voting on proposed changes to rules and policies.

Elections will be held for two year terms for up to five Directors. In addition, a President will be elected. Eligible candidates for election must be current Active Members or Life Members of the B.C.P.A.

AGM Agenda

1. Elect an individual to chair the meeting, if necessary

2. Quorum confirmation

3. Approval of the agenda

4. Approval of the minutes from the last AGM, November 25th, 2023

5. Addressing any unfinished business from the prior AGM

6. Presentation of the Directors’ report on the financial statements of the Society for the financial year (ending September 30, 2024)

7. Presentation of other reports of Directors’ activities and decisions since the last AGM

8. Election of a President and up to five Directors for two-year terms

9. New business

10. Adjournment

2025 Marks the 14th year of the largest indoor competition in WUSPBA. For the second year, our Grade 1 aggregate winner will be invited to the Sandy Jones Memorial Championship under the Sun Belt Competition. Malachi Johannsen was the 2024 winner and was the winner of this year's Sandy Jones! Our competition is open to all amateur grades 1 through 5.