The Prairie Piping Invitational features top professional pipers playing entertaining tunes in a free-for-all event that always provides a great night of piping. Sponsored by The City of Regina Pipe Band and Reelpipes.com.

Date: May 20, 2022 [Friday at 7:00pm, music starts at 7:30]

Where: Hotel Saskatchewan, Regency Ballroom

2022 Invitees:
Alex Gandy, Dartmouth, NS
Daniel Lidgren, Calgary, AB
Raphael Mercier, Saskatoon, SK
Stewart Smith, Calgary, AB
Sean Somers, Calgary, AB

2022 Adjudicator:
Jim McGillivray

Requirements: players will entertain with an 4-6 minute selection of their own choice. The selection must include the ground of a piobaireachd.

We're planning an amazing package of fun and excitement for all. We have pipe bands from across the prairies, a Highland dance Championship and pre-premier contest, Scottish heavy athletics, beer tent with music and dance entertainment, children’s activities and lots more! Check our event schedule, volunteer for free entry, or sponsor

Largest Pipe Band Contest in the United States in 2018 & 2019....All solos on Friday and All Bands on Saturday. Grade 2 & 3 bands play twice and play their medleys in concert formation. Entry available at www.MWPBA.org

Highland Games and Pipe Band Contest

Black Tie Dinner and Recital Competition, with four invited elite solo pipers performing. Caledonian Hotel, Edinburgh
Tickets £65

All grades of pipe band competitions to determine the national titles.

Grade 1 City of Dunedin "Highland Roads" concert, May 13th, workshop May 14th.

World Solo Drumming semi-final qualifying and part of the eight-event RSPBA Solo Drumming Champion of Champions League for snare drummers 18 and older.

World Solo Drumming qualifying and RSPBA Solo Drumming Champion of Champions event for snare drummers 18 and older. Lochgelly High School, Station Road, Lochgelly, Fife.

Qualifying event for the adult semi-final of the World Solo Drumming Championships and part of the RSPBA's eight-competition Champion of Champions League.

Qualifying event for the adult semi-final of the World Solo Drumming Championships and part of the eight-contest RSPBA Champion of Champions League. Hosted by the EUSPBA during the Metro Cup Solo Piping Competitions.

Annual drumming and piping competition in aid of Enable Scotland charity. Deans Bowling Club in Livingston, Scotland, beginning at 12:30 pm UK time.

Join us at the 53rd annual Monterey Scottish Games and Celtic Festival on July 16-17, 2022. Set amongst beautiful beaches, world class golf courses and local wineries, the Monterey Scottish Games is a great summer getaway. 2022 will be our biggest Festival in decades with the highest prize money kitchen piping contest in the world offering $1,000 for first place, over 10 live entertainers, a new beer garden, top tier judging by Bruce Gandy and Duncan Millar and much more. We look forward to you joining us as we become one of the top piping and drumming competitions on the west coast of North America.

Grade 5 American Pipe Band Championship as well as all amateur solo piping & drumming events

Grades 2-5 bands and all solo events

PPBSO band and solo competitions, all grades.

Facebook Live broadcast at 7 pm GMT on Friday, June 11th. Five pipers are submitting performances of piobaireachds assigned to them:

• Callum Beaumont, Dollar, Scotland, “Cumha Mhic a h-Arasaig” (“MacKintosh’s Lament”)
• Glenn Brown, Glasgow, “Failt a Bhodaich” (“The Duke of Argyll’s Salute”)
• Andrew Hayes, Ottawa, “Piobaireachd Cheann Deise” (“The Earl of Ross’s March”)
• Finlay Johnston, Glasgow, “Cumha an Aona Mhic” (“Lament for the Only Son”)
• Stuart Liddell, Inveraray, Scotland, “Moladh Morag” (“In Praise of Morag”)

This summer, the Balmoral School of Piping & Drumming will come to you via Zoom with a wider variety of classes, more guest instructors, more one-on-one tutoring, and lots of other exciting programming. Guest Piping instructors will be Roddy MacLeod MBE, Bruce Gandy, Andrew Carlisle and Robert Mathieson. An all-new Drumming Program is in the works, with 2021 guest drumming instructors to be announced shortly.

The fee for the weeklong session is $375.00 USD. Refer new students and you’ll receive $50 off the price of the workshop for each new student who attends.

Special deal for band members! Bring at least a few members of your pipe band to Balmoral and you’ll receive a highly customizable band clinic, tailored to your band’s needs, as part of your Online Summer School.

British Columbia Pipers Association Annual Gathering. All events online.

Piper Now presents the 2021 Online Trio Pipe and Drum Competition. Grade 3 and 4 Timed Medley. See our website for more details.

Pipers & Pipe Band Society of Ontario annual general meeting, 10 am  ET, via Zoom.

On the agenda:

• Receive the Minutes of the 2022 AGM

• Receive the Report of the President

• Receive PPBSO Financial Statements

• Receive the Report of the Auditors

• Appointment of Auditors

• Election of Officers (President/Vice President/Treasurer)

• Election of Directors at Large (2)

• Such other business as may be properly brought before the meeting

- Motions

- Other

Balmoral is offering a weekend-long Winter Workshop for Pipers and Drummers, February 19-21, 2021, for a fee of $275 USD. Students who refer new students to us will receive $50 off the price of the Workshop for every new student referred.

Workshop attendees will receive instruction on the Great Highland pipes, Scottish smallpipes, and Scottish snare drum. Our guest piping instructors—Andrew Carlisle, Robert Mathieson and Bruce Gandy— have all won major awards and have incomparable records of teaching and promoting pipe music around the world.

A big part of the Balmoral experience is our community. Even in the days of social distancing, we plan to give our students the opportunity to network, as well as make friends who share a common interest in piping and drumming. Tech help available to those not familiar with Zoom.

Ashburton's annual music festival beginning with the Street March on Elizabeth Street at 12:30pm, then Sets and Medleys to follow in the Domain at 1:30pm