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More than 40,000 people were said to have attended the 2012 World Pipe Band Championships, and with 11 months to go before the revamped two-day 2013 World’s . . .

Highland Society of London Gold Medallist Glenn Brown has been in the news recently for moving from the ScottishPower Pipe Band to . . .

Eric MacNeill has resigned as Leading-Drummer of the Grade 1 Oran Mor Pipe Band of Albany, New York. MacNeill cited “irreconcilable differences” as the reason. MacNeill had . . .

You might say that Jack Lee and his sons want more skin in the games. The Vancouver-based Lee & Sons Bagpipes, headed by renowned piper Jack Lee, have added pipe bag-making to their . . .

The pipers who will compete at the 2012 Glenfiddich Invitational Solo Piping Championships have been confirmed, and they feature the winners of the designated qualifying competitions and . . .

The Grade 2 Stuart Highlanders of Boston have made an amicable change at the Leading-Drummer spot, with incumbent Scott Armit handing over the post to Scott Fletcher, effective immediately . . .

The Highland Games at Loon Mountain, New Hampshire, will be the time that Scott Bell leads the Grade 2 Rob Roy Pipe Band of Kingston, Ontario, into competition, deciding to . . .

The Glasgow Skye Association Pipe Band built what started as a small concert in Motherwell, Scotland, into the marquee Pre-World’s Concert that is today, and now the Grade 2 Bucksburn & District . . .

2012 Word Champions Field Marshal Montgomery of Belfast have added Andrew Elliott and Kyle Heaney, both of Ontario, Canada, to the . . .

Collections of pipe music are difficult to sell these days, but composer Michael Grey is hoping that a limited edition hard-bound book that compiles five of his controversial medley-suites . . .

Founded in 1916 and a multiple winner of the Grade 1 North American Pipe Band Championship, Worcester Kiltie of Massachusetts . . .

The new-look House of Edgar-Shotts & Dykehead under recently appointed Pipe-Major Ryan Canning have started the rebuilding process with the addition of . . .

The 64th annual Glengarry Highland Games will again host the North American Pipe Band Championships, but with a lesser entry than past year, particularly in Grade 1 . . .

There¡¯s nothing like winning a major to take a band into the World Championships on a buoyant note, and the timing for Boghall & Bathgate Caledonia taking the 2012 European title could not have been better . . .

Thomas Lorenzen of Grenzach-Wyhlen, Germany, and Susan Lunn of Kingston, Ontario, are the two winners of a pair of tickets each to the Boghall & Bathgate Caledonia Pipe Band’s “Forte” concert at the Royal Glasgow Concert Hall on Wednesday, August 8th.