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July 21, 2025

Gordon McCready wins overall trophy at 23-piper Helensburgh Indoor

Gordon McCready was the overall winner at the Helensburgh Indoor Piping Competition, where 23 pipers contended for the prizes. Piers Dover of New Zealand was given the Best Overseas Piper award.
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July 20, 2025
Top winners at 2025 Ards & North Down Championships: McNeillstown
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July 19, 2025
All MacColl at Taynuilt, with Angus J. the Younger winning the overall
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July 19, 2025
Peel Police win Grade 2 at Ontario’s 2025 Cambridge Scottish Festival
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July 18, 2025
William Donaldson unveils “Pìobaireachd (Pibroch) – The Classic Scores” online resource
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July 17, 2025
Eric Rigler: the pipes|drums Interview – Part 4
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July 15, 2025
Faced with funding challenges, “National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland 2.0” implements fee-based approach
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July 15, 2025
Heroes warmly remembered at 2025 Skagit Games where Martin, Sutherland, Bonar and Greighlan Crossing blaze
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July 14, 2025
Tickets, advance merch in short supply for Shotts SOLAS concert
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July 14, 2025

Roasted pipers at 34° Kamloops Games in BC

In British Columbia's remote southern interior, Kamloops boasts a population of more than 100,000, and the city...
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July 13, 2025

Angus MacPhee red hot at sweltering Inverness

Angus MacPhee of Inverness was the overall winner of the senior solo piping at the annual Inverness Highland games at...
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July 12, 2025

2025 UK Champions: St. Laurence O’Toole; Uddingston wins Grade 2; only 60 bands total

Edinburgh – June 12, 2025 – Dublin’s St. Laurence O’Toole won the 2025 UK Championships in a three-band...
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July 10, 2025

The Castle Recordings – Installment #18

We conclude the "Castle Recordings" with the eighteenth and final installment of piobaireachds in our exclusive series...
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February 28, 2007
Bowes wins big at Strathclyde Police Juniors
Keith Bowes was the overall Under-18 winner of the first annual Strathclyde Police Pipe Band Junior Solo Piping...
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Robert Burns dies, Dumfries.
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