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

A Scottish Festival for all the family. All the events you’d expect; Highland & National Dancing, pipe bands, solo drumming and solo piping.

Come along and listen to some of New Zealand’s top solo pipers. No entry charge. Events: Double MSR and Open Medley with a prize for the overall winner (based on medley preference). Judge: Stuart Easton The Bar will be open and food available through the Northcote Tavern Kitchen. With thanks to friends and members of the Auckland & District Pipe Band who sponsor this event.

Subject to confirmation, the Canterbury Caledonian Society Pipe Band will be running ChCh Casino Victoria Square on the first Saturday in December 2020.

The awards ceremony will be hosted via Zoom at noon Eastern Time on October 9th.

Jack Taylor, Patrick Molard, Sarah Muir, and Matt MacIsaac in concert by video. The event is a benefit for the Nicol-Brown Amateur Invitational Competition, and for The National Piping Centre in Glasgow.

Friday, October 9 at 7:00 pm Eastern Time—Watch the premier of the concert on our Facebook page.
https://www.facebook.com/nicolbrowninvitational

The 14th Annual Balmoral Classic will be held on Saturday, Nov. 14, 2020. This will be a virtual event, competitors submitting videos. Please, apply by Oct. 14. Those invited to compete may sign up for any one of three Prerecording Workshops with professional piper Sean Patrick Regan. Regan will work with competitors to ensure that they are prepared to submit their best recordings. On November 14, all competition performances will Premiere on YouTube, with LiveChat available to give viewers the experience of attending a live event. First prize for the winning piper will be a set of McCallum bagpipes.

• Callum Beaumont, Dollar, Scotland
• Finlay Johnston, Glasgow
• Angus MacColl, Benderloch, Scotland
• Matt MacIsaac, Aurora, Ontario
• Sarah Muir, Glasgow

All competing at the Strathclyde Suite, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, delivering a selection of both prescribed and free-form music.

Wellington Pipers Club's 68th annual Brown Cup light music and Everest Memorial Piobaireachd solo piping competitions.

Open to members or their proxy with fees fully paid.

PPBSO band and solo competitions, all grades

Elite solo pipers competing in traditional contest held at the Argyll Arms Hotel, Campbeltown, Scotland.

This year’s competitors:

• Callum Beaumont, St. Andrews, Scotland
• Alasdair Henderson, Edinburgh
• Finlay Johnston, Glasgow
• Fred Morrison, Bishopton, Scotland
• Stuart Liddell, Inveraray, Scotland
• Angus MacColl, Benderloch, Scotland
• Willie McCallum, Bearsden, Scotland
• Iain Speirs, Edinburgh

Pipe Bands Australia biennial national conference, September 14-15, Melbourne, Australia