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The second day of the 158th Antigonish Highland Games saw more clear, sunny skies and very warm temperatures as bands as soloists went all cazh again without ties and waistcoats. Ultimately, it was Alex Gandy of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, who had the best overall day in the Professional solo piping, while Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia’s Gillian Blaney took the overall in the Grade 1 Amateur solo piping.
The Piping Live! Glasgow International Festival of Piping is going global more than ever by expanding its online programming of the 2023 August events to a total of 30 hours of broadcast coverage. The organizers are using new viewing software, allowing viewers to subscribe to see all of the events […]
Queensland’s Craig Sked won both the Australian Gold Medal Piobaireachd and the overall A -Grade Victorian Championship in a tightly contested solo piping competition held at the Presbyterian Ladies’ College. William Mullighan of South Australia won the overall B-Grade Victorian Champion prize and Silver Medal piobaireachd, Jessie Sun, Victoria, took the Bronze medal for piobaireachd, and Michael Zhang, Victoria, won the overall C-Grade Victorian Champion prize.
It has been said that the only people who still wear ties and waistcoats no matter what the weather are politicians, newscasters and pipers and drummers, but on a typically hot and sunny at the 158th Antigonish Highland Games in Nova Scotia piping, drumming and pipe band competitors were given permission by Atlantic Canada Pipe Band Association Chief Steward Rick Crawford to dispense with the woolly and strangling accessories to be more comfortable while performing their music in 31°C sunny conditions.
In the thirteenth fundraising event since the registered charity started in 2013, Pipe Band Aid hit the pubs of Edinburgh and ended up raising £5,000 for Edinburgh Children’s Hospital, the latest charity to benefit from the efforts of volunteer pipers and drummers. Members of the group spread out across Scotland’s […]
Penticton, British Columbia – July 1, 2023 – On Canada Day, King’s Park was the site of the 2023 Penticton Scottish Festival, where British Columbia’s Vale United prevailed to take the overall in Grade 3 and Craig Sutherland of Perth, Scotland, was the aggregate winner in the Open solo piping, […]
The BBC will once again stream live on the internet the Grade 1 events on the Saturday of the World Pipe Band Championships, according to sources close to the event. Neither BBC Scotland, the RSPBA nor Glasgow Life has made an official announcement about the matter, but it is believed […]
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“Strength and endurance” is the motto of the Caledonian Piping Club of Saltcoats, Scotland, and the venerable organization is hoping to stage a strong, expanded solo piping competition at their annual Festival of Juvenile Solo Piping and is searching for former winners of the MSR championship. If their vision takes […]
In pre-internet days, only those who heard the contest live were aware of the insidious dues-paying system of judging. Those days are thankfully gone.
We continue Jeannie Campbell MBE’s multi-part series, “From Aboyne to Zorra,” in which she researches piping, drumming and pipe band competitions from around the world. These are fascinating pieces that revisit piping and drumming competitions of the past in the United States, Canada and, of course, Scotland, bringing back into to light the competitors and […]
The Northern Ireland branch of the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association put on the annual All-Ireland Pipe Band Championships on the grounds of Ballymena Academy, and ultimately it was Field Marshal Montgomery that took the title with eight out of eight firsts across the Medley and MSR events. FMM won the drumming again, continuing undefeated so far in the 2023 season. Northern Ireland’s Ravara won the Grade 2 competition.
On Canada Day 2023, we’re pleased to bring our readers and viewers what we think is the perfect story that reflects the welcoming values of modern Canada, and every country that embraces all cultures and traditions. Now with a population of more than 40-million, thanks to welcoming immigrants beyond the […]
None of the bids for the 2,500-acre Husabost Estate on the Isle of Skye submitted at the June 29th closing date are connected with piping, but there’s no threat to the hallowed MacCrimmon Cairn at Borreraig, which is part of the property. Skye resident and Highland Society of London Gold […]
If there were ever an example of doing good for the piping and drumming world, the local community, and a deserving charity, it’s the annual Livi Invitational Freestyle Solo Drumming Competition in Livingston, Scotland. This year, despite significant challenges, the venerable contest will take place on Saturday, November 18th, at […]
Five years after the National Piping Centre rescued the Silver Chanter invitational piobaireachd competition, oversight of the event is being moved to the Piobaireachd Society. There will be no competition this year, but will return in 2024. The contest is to be sponsored by Mossburn Distillers/Torabhaig Distillery and Sabhal Mòr […]