Redding Bagpipe Competition
Solo piping competition for grades 4-2. Northern California's only WUSPBA sanctioned indoor event!
At the Old City Hall, Redding, California
Archives: Events
The Scots School Albury Highland Games & Tattoo
Date(s): May 14, 2016
Location: The Scots School Albury,
Australia
Event URL: Link to website
Contact: Link to Email
2016 will see The Scots School Albury (Australia) turn 150. In celebration of this the school will be running a Highland Games followed by a Tattoo at night. All events will be held on school grounds. For more information please visit http://www.scotsalbury.nsw.edu.au/highland-gathering/
Paris Port Dover Pipe Band – 15 Years and Counting
Date(s): November 21, 2015,
November 22, 2015
Location: Port Dover, Ontario,
Canada
Event URL: Link to website
The Paris Port Dover Pipe Band is coming to the Lighthouse Theatre in Port Dover Ontario on Nov 21 and Nov. 22. "Paris Port Dover, 15 Years and Counting" will sell out fast, so plan for the evening show on Saturday, or the Sunday matinee and purchase your tickets soon. There will be some unexpected and very enjoyable surprises that you won't want to miss. Tickets are $20.00 per person and can be purchased in advance through the Port Dover Lighthouse Festival Theatre website.
Master Class with Callum Beaumont
Date(s): October 11, 2015
Location: Celtic Hall, 430 New Karner Road, Albany, NY 12205,
USA
Event URL: Link to website
Contact: Link to Email
Nicol-Brown competitors will be given the privilege of receiving instruction from Callum Beaumont, and pipers at all levels are encouraged to observe the Master Class and benefit from hearing Callum's advice to each piper. Topics will include musical expression, technique, and improving performances toward the professional level.
Admission is free, thanks to the EUSPBA and other generous donors. Donations are always welcome.
http://nicol-brown.org/donations.html
What is a Master Class?
http://musicalexchange.carnegiehall.org/group/voice/forum/topics/what-is-a-master-class
Invergordon Highland Games
Date(s): August 22, 2015
Location: THE CROMARTYFIRTH BUSINESS PARK , Invergordon,
United Kingdom
Contact: Link to Email
Events:
Crieff Highland Gathering
All solo piping grades and events. See Competing Pipers Association website for more.
Montreal Highland Games
Date(s): August 5, 2018,
August 6, 2018
Location: Douglas Hospital, Verdun, Quebec,
Canada
Event URL: Link to website
Over the past 37 years, the Montreal Highland Games has become one of the premier events on the North American highland games circuit. The Montreal Highland Games is always held on the Sunday following the Glengarry (Maxville) Games, which makes it a double header for pipe bands, athletes, highland dancers and spectators. Among competitors this has become known as the M&M weekend.
Innovation Glasgow 2015 – Drumming for Drinks
Date(s): August 12, 2015
Location: Todd's Bar, Strathclyde University,
United Kingdom
1:00 p.m.
Each year the audience fills Todds Bar to watch an afternoon of entertainment in a beer tent atmosphere. If you don’t want to miss out, here’s what you will find nowhere else in the pipe band drumming world:
- We invite some of the world’s finest pipe band percussion competitors to perform for you at Todds Bar
- They each have 5 minutes to lay on a freestyle ‘anything goes’ performance to win your vote
- You decide which performer wins the title of Lord or Lady of the Todd for 2015
Drumming for Drinks is also the only place where you can sit down with a cold refreshment while you take in some top class competition performances. Todds Bar will have various promotions running in conjunction with the World's week activities for you to enjoy.
Piping Live! Saturday Events
Date(s): August 15, 2015
Location: Glasgow Green; Art Club,
United Kingdom
Event URL: Link to website
Saturday it's all about the World Pipe Band Championships at Glasgow Green! After it's over, check out the "After World's Shindig" with Flook, Fred Morrison, Patrick Molard and Yves Berthou at the Art Club.
Piping Live! Friday Events
Date(s): August 14, 2015
Location: Glasgow: various venues,
United Kingdom
Event URL: Link to website
Friday is the qualifiers for the Grade 1 World Pipe Band Championships, and many will be at Glasgow Green to see and hear the bands. You can also watch the live feed at The National Piping Centre (bar and food service)! Meantime, the Street Café at the National Piping Centre is booming, there are bands at George Square, including the Armagh Pipers Club, and Friday Folk Night at the Art Club with Armagh Pipers Club, Scott Wood Band, Wendy MacIsaac and Mary Jane Lamond.
Check the Piping Live! website for complete listings.
Piping Live! Thursday Events
Date(s): August 13, 2015
Location: Glasgow: various venues,
United Kingdom
Event URL: Link to website
Thursday all the Grade 1 bands have their game faces on, but that's no reason for the rest of us not to smile! The day has Pipe-a-Thon World Record attempt, CLASP solo piping, and band performances in George Square from Belgian Blend Pipe Band, Dartmouth & District Pipe Band, North Stratton Pipe Band, Sri Dasmesh Pipe Band and Malaysia Sikh Band. The amazing Armagh Pipers Club is in the Street Café, there's a Fred Morrison CD launch, a recital with Nova Scotia's Matt MacIssac, the Big Music Society with Murray Henderson and much more!
Check out the Piping Live! website for complete listing.
Piping Live! Tuesday Events
Date(s): August 11, 2015
Location: Glasgow: various venues,
United Kingdom
Event URL: Link to website
Tuesday features a packed line-up including the Family Fun Day starting first thing at the Piping Centre, and the "Come and Try" session later on. pipes | drums sponsors a "Pipes and Drums"session in the Café with leading Grade 1 pipe-majors and lead-drummers, a Gaelic and Piping session, more Pipe Idol and the International Quartets at night! Check the Piping Live! website for the full lineup.
CARLOWAY PIPING CHAMPIONSHIPS-ISLE OF LEWIS
Date(s): August 5, 2015
Contact: Link to Email
CARLOWAY SHOW AND HIGHLAND GAMES- est.1911
ISLE OF LEWIS
SOLO PIPING CHAMPIONSHIPS
Carloway showground, on the main stage at 1pm
Register on the day
MSR- £60-£40-£30-£20
H&J- £40-£30-£20-£10
Pipers choice medley(3 tunes of which one to be a 6/8 march)
£60-£40-£30-£20
Finlay MacNeil Cup and £50 for Highest points overall
For more information contact Alasdair on aajfraser@aol.com
Judge- Domhnall 'Ban' MacDonald, Kyles Flodda
Fear an tighe- Donald Smith, Bragar
Fort George Celtic Festival
Date(s): July 24, 2015,
July 25, 2015
Location: Niagara on the Lake,
Australia
Event URL: Link to website
Contact: Link to Email
Kinmount Highland Games
Date(s): July 11, 2015
Location: Kinmount Fair Grounds,
Canada
Event URL: Link to website
Contact: Link to Email
Street Band performances Highland Dancing Competition, Heavy Events, Celtic Entertainment Stage, Vendors, Gathering of the Clans, Artisans' Marketplace, Children's Activities, Agricultural Displays and Presentations.
Hosted by the Kinmount Committee for Planning and Economic Development and sponsored by the Kinmount Agricultural Society, among others.
Callum Beaumont Concert (A Nicol-Brown event)
Date(s): October 9, 2015
Location: St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 21 Hackett Blvd., Albany, NY 12208,
USA
Event URL: Link to website
Contact: Link to Email
Friday, October 9, 2015. 7:00 pm.
An evening of piping by Gold Medallist and Clasp Winner, Callum Beaumont, from Linlithgow, Scotland.
The recital will be a benefit for the Nicol-Brown Amateur Invitational Competition, and a reception to welcome the 2015 competitors. After Callum's concert, the competitors will be introduced, and will receive their tune selections for the contest the next day.
Antigonish Highland Games
Date(s): July 11, 2015,
July 12, 2015
Location: Antigonish, Nova Scotia,
Canada
Event URL: Link to website
Contact: Link to Email
Instructors’ Recital
Date(s): July 2, 2015
Location: King City, ON,
Canada
Event URL: Link to website
Contact: Link to Email
The Ontario School of Piping & Drumming presents an informal recital by our instructors: Jack Lee, Doug Stronach, Willie McCallum and Bruce Gandy. $10 at the door. Location: Garriock Hall, Seneca College King Campus, King City Ontario. 7:00 p.m. start.
Instructors’ Recital
Date(s): June 25, 2015
Location: King City, ON,
Canada
Event URL: Link to website
Contact: Link to Email
The Ontario School of Piping & Drumming presents an informal recital by our instructors: Jack Lee, Doug Stronach, Willie McCallum and Bruce Gandy. $10 at the door. Location: Garriock Hall, Seneca College King Campus, King City Ontario. 7:00 p.m. start.
Invermark Piping & Drumming Summer School
Date(s): July 19, 2015,
July 24, 2015
Location: Hunter Mountain, Hunter, NY,
USA
Event URL: Link to website
Contact: Link to Email
Invermark in its 53rd Year. World-Class Instruction with: Donald Linsday, Jack Lee, Willie McCallum, Maureen Connor, John Fisher, Eric MacNeill, and Christina Hanks.
Hunter Mountain, Hunter, NY
Ottawa Branch Indoor Games
Jakarta Highland Games
PEI Summerside School of Piping and Drumming
Date(s): July 5, 2015,
July 10, 2015
Location: College of Piping, Summerside, PEI,
Canada
Event URL: Link to website
The National Piping Centre invites you to the 2015 P.E.I. Summerside Piping and Drumming School. We will have a daily program which will cover all aspects of performance including practice routines, technique, musical expression, tuning and ensemble playing. Students will be taught in a small group of similar ability for 3-4 hours per day with workshops, recitals and practice time built in. All levels of players are welcome. |
Canmore Highland Games
Canmore Highland Games to Continue!
Canmore, AB. – February 20 – After uncertainty with financial difficulties, the Three Sisters Scottish Festival Society is pleased to announce that they will be able to present their signature summer event this year. They are deeming their “Save the Highland Games” fundraiser a success.
Calgary Highland Games
Date(s): September 5, 2015
Location: Springbank Park for All Seasons, Calgary,
Canada
Event URL: Link to website
The Calgary Highland Games is one of the premier Highland Games in Western Canada. Started in 1913, it is one of the oldest gatherings in North America and celebrated 100 years in 2013. With competitors from around the world, the Calgary Highland Games is a proud example of Scotland’s history come to life.
2015 Calgary Highland Games
September 5, 2015
Springbank Park for All Seasons
Join us for a day filled with the sights and sounds of Scotland!