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Hot on the heels of being appointed the next leading-drummer of the storied Grade 1 Shotts & Dykehead Caledonia, Grant Cassidy scored another great position after being appointed Senior Drumming Tutor of the National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland’s 2023-’24 Program. The perennial contender in the World Solo Drumming Championship […]
By winning the Dunvegan Medal, Fred Morrison of Bishopton, Scotland, won one of the few major solo piping prizes that had until now eluded him, while Derek Midgley of Tinton Falls, New Jersey, won the Colonel Jock MacDonald Clasp for those who had already won the Dunvegan Medal. More than 30 pipers competed in the senior events. Edinburgh’s Ben Duncan won both the Marches and the Strathspey & Reel, enjoying probably the best overall day in terms of results.
Ballater, Scotland – August 10, 2023 – The first prizes went to three separate players at the annual Ballater Highland Games, which attracted about 20 pipers to the Senior competitions. Andrew Donlon, Washington, DC; Craig Muirhead, Stirling, Scotland; and Fred Morrison, Bishopton, Scotland, won the Piobaireachd, March and Strathspey & […]
Lorient, Brittany – August 8, 2023 – With first placings from six of the six judges across all three events, Stuart Liddell of Inveraray, Scotland, won the MacCrimmon Trophy at the Inter-Celtic Music Festival in the Breton village of Lorient. The competition started in 1982 as a celebration of Celtic […]
With the king and queen of Warri, Nigeria, looking on, John Mulhearn of Glasgow won three of the four Senior solo piping events at the annual Aboyne Highland Games in Scotland’s Royal Deeside. The annual games have been held with few breaks on the first Saturday of August since 1867. The weather was gie dreich.
pipes|drums is pleased to bring all pipe band members, friends and enthusiasts in Scotland for Piping Live! and the World Championships our nineteenth Guide to Grade 1 Band Practices and Appearances! We’ve reached out to all 16 top-grade bands entered for the World’s with a request to share their information, […]
Goodness knows how much a bottle of 50-year-old Glenfiddich would cost a devoted whisky fan, but connoisseurs of great solo piping can enjoy the music of the world’s 10 best players at the 50th-anniversary edition of the Glenfiddich Solo Piping Championship on October 28th for £20 in-person or £15 online […]
We’re pleased to bring everyone all 10 performances from the five-band Grade 2 competition at the 2023 North American Pipe Band Championships at the Glengarry Highland Games at Maxville, Ontario. Conditions were picture-perfect, and the main arena was buzzing with excitement as the organizers, for possibly the first time ever, […]
pipes|drums is pleased to bring readers, viewers and listeners 4K videos of all six Grade 1 performances at the 2023 North American Pipe Band Championships at the Glengarry Highland Games in Maxville, Ontario. Held in perfect sunny and relatively cool weather, the event drew a capacity crowd, and entries across […]
Edinburgh’s Ben Duncan scored a perfect day by winning all four senior solo piping events at the annual Newtonmore Highland Games in Scotland’s Highland region. The weather was mostly horrific, featuring horizontal rain and only a few dry spells.
On a warm and sunny day at the Glengarry Highland Games, the 78th Fraser Highlanders won the North American Pipe Band Championship against two other Grade 1 bands.
At a warm St. Michael & All Angels Anglican Church, Daniel Carr of Collingwood, Ontario, won the Piobaireachd Society Gold Medal (Canada) against a field of 14 other contestants. The Bar to the Medal competition for previous winners of the Gold Medal saw 11 compete, and ultimately Ian K. MacDonald was the winner.
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 […]
It is no small feat to publish a decent collection of pipe music. To do so on such a large scale and while limiting the collection to tunes and composers with RCMP ties makes it even harder.
The Eagle Pipers Society of Edinburgh has advised that there are only about 14 days left to get tickets for the Captain John A. MacLellan Memorial Dinner-Recital competition at the swank Waldorf-Astoria Caledonian Hotel on Saturday, August 26th in Edinburgh. Ticket sales will close as 23:00 BST on Friday, August […]
At the Scottish Pipe Band Championships on Saturday, the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association announced that Field Marshal Montgomery had won the Grade 1 drumming title. Some 36 hours later, it was revealed that Inveraray & District was actually the winner, the association mistakenly reading the drumming result from ensemble […]