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The Pacific Northwest piping and drumming scene has a particular way of turning grief into gratitude. In 1994, the sudden deaths of pipers Malcolm Bokhenforh and Rob Barbelak resulted in the formation of the wonderfully successful Robert Malcolm Memorial Pipe Band organization, a teaching effort that has realized hundreds of […]
Dubbed “The Bang in Penang,” the Southeast Asian Championships were held on the grounds of the historic St. Xavier’s Institution in Georgetown, a departure from the usual venue in Singapore.
Nick Hudson of Houston won the U.S. Piping Foundation’s annual Maclean Macleod Solo Piping Competition, held at the Amy E. du Pont Music Building at the University of Delaware.
We’re pleased to bring pipes|drums viewers videos of the performances by the six bands playing in the Grade 2 MSR competition at the 2024 Georgetown Highland Games in Georgetown, Ontario.
The Peel Regional Police Pipe Band won the top contested event at the annual Georgetown Highland Games, which traditionally begins the outdoor contests season in Ontario. The weather was mostly sunny, with temperatures around 20°C to start, but things clouded over in the afternoon, and the wind whipped up, with a few light showers cooling the day.
Against nine other Grade 1 bands, Peoples Ford Boghall & Bathgate Caledonia won the 2024 British Championships. Grade 2 went to Glasgow Skye Association.
The British Championships at Forres, Scotland, and the United States Piping Foundation’s Maclean Macleod Memorial Piping Championships in Delaware are the big events in the piping and drumming world taking place on Saturday, June 8th. The British Championships are the second of five Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association major competitions, […]
In the penultimate Part 4, Cusack talks about the St. Thomas Episcopal School operation, inspiring students, the team buy-in required to be successful, and being a pipe band in football-mad Texas.
Eddie Boland, Donald Morrison and Kathryn MacEwan were the overall Grade 1, Grade 2, and Grade 3 winners, respectively, at the well-attended in-person CLASP (Competition League for Amateur Solo Pipers) competition at the National Piping Centre.
Drumming for Drinks, maybe the most inventive and fun event in the history of piping and drumming history, will not be held in 2024 and the foreseeable future. The celebrated day of performance and revelry for drummers, pipers and music lovers of all kinds was first held in 2007 and […]
Greighlan Crossing won both Grade 3 band competitions, which were the top contested events, and Zephan Knichel had the overall best day in the Open solo piping, winning the MSR and placing second in the Piobaireachd.
Edinburgh’s Ben Duncan won the senior solo piping overall at the annual Markinch Highland Games, held in decent weather in the Kingdom of Fife. Duncan also won the MSR and was second in the Piobaireachd, while Glasgow’s Mike Fitzhenry won the ceol mor.
After three years, the National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland’s Emerging Composers programs has proven to be an excellent success, attracting musical works from some of the world’s most creative young piping minds. NYPBS Director Steven Blake confirmed that the initiative has received funding for 2024. The funding will allow […]
The committee that decides their fate – at least for this year – has informed the 100 or so competitive solo pipers who applied to participate in the Highland Society of London Gold Medal and Silver Medal competitions at the Argyllshire Gathering and the Northern Meeting. Decisions are predicated on […]
With four out of four firsts, New Zealand’s Adam Waghorn was the obvious aggregate winner in the Grade 1 events at the CLASP – Competition League for Amateur Solo Pipers’ Live Online solo competition, and Japan’s Mariko Arimoto, Adam Aitchison of Scotland, and Germany’s Jürgen Schrall took the overall Grade 2, Grade 3 and Grade 4 prizes, respectively, showing the worldwide appeal of the event.
The positive impact the late Skye Richendrfer had on the piping, pipe band drumming and Celtic music community in the Pacific Northwest continues to be experienced and celebrated, and the latest event is “A Celebration of Piping” on June 2nd at the Littlefield Celtic Center, the Celtic Arts Foundation’s state-of-the-art home […]