Results
March 12, 2026

McIlhaney, Teodorovich, Schwartzberg, Parker, Bailey on fire at Redding

Steven McElhaney of Sacramento, California, was the big winner at the fifteenth annual Redding Solo Piping Competitions, winning the Grade 1 aggregate and thus earning an invitation to the Sandy Jones Memorial Amateur Championship in Florida. The overall awards were won by Katya Teodorovich (Grade 2), Brian...
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March 11, 2026
Uddingston goes all out with Beaumont, MacLeod and McQuillan in May 8 recital
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March 11, 2026
Revitalized Grade 2 MacKenzie Caledonian re-emerge with experienced personnel and new leaders
News
March 10, 2026
PPBSO discontinues quadrant feedback system for more straightforward solo scoresheets
News
March 10, 2026
ANAPBA hopes to adopt RSPBA playing requirements in ’27
Results
March 9, 2026
Record entry for 2026 Scottish Schools Pipe Band Championships
Results
March 9, 2026
Hutton, Arnold and Reid: 2026 Toronto Knockout champions
Features
March 8, 2026
International Women’s Day 2026: Kirsty Duncan gave voice to gain change
Features
March 7, 2026
IWD26: Anne Spalding looks back to 1976, when solo piping discrimination against women finally ended
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Results
March 7, 2026

Finlay Johnston starts 2026 campaign with a bang with a Uist & Barra win

With a Piobaireachd win and a second in the MSR, Finlay Johnston was the overall champion at the 2026 Glasgow Uist &...
Results
March 6, 2026

Feb. ’26 CLASP Live Online winners: Mitchell, Kelly, Brégent, Yeung

The latest "Live Online" competition run by the Competition League for Adult Solo Pipers (CLASP) was held over two...
News
March 4, 2026

Glasgow Skye hits another leadership crisis; cancels 2026 season

Less than three years after his appointment as pipe-major, Donald Stewart has resigned from the Grade 2 Glasgow Skye...
News
March 3, 2026

At 100, Harry Lauder’s “Road to the Isles” was no road to riches for Jock McLellan

“The Road to the Isles” is one of the most-heard pieces composed for the Highland pipes, which became a...
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February 17, 2022
From the archives: Jim McGillivray’s February 1998 review of the breakthrough Ross Canister Pipe Bag system
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March 12
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