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Seven Shedden of Melbourne, Australia, was the winner of the RSPBA’s European Solo Drumming Championship held at Lochgelly High School as the latest qualifying event for the semi-final of the 2023 World Solo Drumming Championship this October.
The piping and drumming world was saddened and shocked to learn of the passing of John Elliott of Kirkcaldy, Scotland, on April 20, 2023. Elliott was known globally as the founder and owner of G1 Reeds, a business he started in 2010 and that he built into being one of […]
The Kincardine Scottish Festival held every July in the picturesque Lake Huron-side town of Kincardine, Ontario, since 1998 has been one of the most popular events on the Ontario piping and drumming circuit. But, citing complications due to roadwork, the Pipers & Pipe Band Society of Ontario, which has always […]
For more than three decades, pipes|drums has consistently worked to highlight the contributions by, pioneering work of, and, sadly, inequitable conditions for women in piping and drumming, including feature pieces, interviews and advocacy campaigns to bring better participation by and equality for females in the art. Back in the 2000s, […]
The Standards & Grading Group of the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association’s Music Board has approved Glasgow Skye Association’s application to move from Grade 1 to Grade 2 for the 2023 season. The move brings the total number of actively competing Grade 1 bands worldwide to 23, with seven based […]
After a long five-year wait, the Grade 2 City of Edinburgh Pipe Band’s Pipe-Major’s Wheel of Fortune Invitational Solo Piping Competition is back on April 29th at the Danderhall Miners’ Club near Edinburgh with as much fun and creativity as ever. First held in 2006, the contest requires eight top-tier […]
Charleston, South Carolina – April 15, 2023 – Playing “Queen Anne’s Lament,” Andrew Donlon of Washington, DC, was the winner of the Joseph MacDonald Memorial Prize for Piobaireachd, sponsored by the Clan Donald Trust and Robert Burns Society of Charleston as part of the Scottish Performing Arts Classic at Saint […]
MacLean, New South Wales, Australia – April 7-8, 2023 – Brisbane’s Craig Sked was the big solo piping winner at the 118th MacLean Highland Gathering, held in the little town in northern New South Wales with a strong Scottish community that is famous for the competition and hundreds of tartan telephone […]
When the Toronto Indoor Games, originally tentatively scheduled April 8th, had to be cancelled due to a problem with the venue, the Ontario piping and drumming scene was collectively disappointed that the event wouldn’t return for the first time in three years. But rather than moping, the three bands of […]
The annual Captain John A. MacLellan MBE Memorial Dinner-Recital-Competition has confirmed the performers for this year’s event on Saturday August 26th, and for the first time in the 12-year history of the event an American will be in the mix. 2022 Northern Meeting Highland Society of London Gold Medallist Nick […]
Nova Scotia’s Bruce and Alex Gandy are famous in the piping and drumming world, and almost certainly the most successful father and son in competitive piping history. Bruce Gandy has won just about every big solo piping prize, including both Highland Society of London Gold Medals, the Bratach Gorm at […]
Hastings, New Zealand – April 8, 2023 – The annual Hastings Easter Highland Games held the Comunn Na Piobaireachd Clasp, Gold Medal, Silver Medal and Bronze solo piping competitions in which Brendon Eade won both the Clasp and the overall across the A-Grade events. Jono Quay of Melbourne won the […]
Delta, British Columbia – April 7-8, 2023 – Jack Lee of Surrey, British Columbia, won his record fifteenth Cairn Piobaireachd and Cameron Bonar, also of Surrey, won everything in the Amateur Grade 1 solo piping at the British Columbia Pipers’ Association’s Annual Gathering, the biggest competition on the Pacific Northwest’s […]
Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Scotland – April 7, 2023 – The 2023 Pipe-Major Donald MacLeod Memorial Invitational Solo Piping Competition was won by Callum Beaumont of St. Andrews, Scotland, taking both the Piobaireachd and the March, Strathspey & Reel events (which decide the overall prize), and a third in the […]
The hundredth anniversary of Northern Ireland’s Tullylagan Pipe Band will be celebrated on April 15th with a concert on April 15th at the Burnavon Theatre in Cookstown, Northern Ireland, featuring the Tullylagan Grade 3A and Grade 4B bands, Grade 3B Cullybackey and Grade 1 Closkelt, as well as the launch […]
Eight Grade 2 and Grade 3 bands have entered so far for the annual American Pipe Band Championships at Scope Plaza in Norfolk, Virginia on April 22, the competition that started in 2016 as part of the Virginia International Tattoo. Grade 2 City of Chicago MacMillan Ottawa Police Service Ulster […]