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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 […]
Livingston, Scotland – April 1, 2023 – Peoples Ford Boghall & Bathgate Caledonia Leading-Drummer Kerr McQuillan emerged victorious at the 2023 Scottish Solo Drumming Championship held at James Young High School and put on by the Lothian & Borders Branch of the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association as one of […]
Chris Anderson, a seminal figure in Canadian piping and drumming, died on April 1, 2023, at the age of 94. Anderson was the pipe-major of the Grade 1 City of Toronto Pipe Band in the 1950s, ’60s and early ’70s, making history as the first non-UK/Ireland band to receive a […]
Northern Ireland’s Field Marshal Montgomery and McNeillstown and special guests will band together to literally sing the praises of the late pipe band legend, Frank Andrews, on Friday, April 28th at the Tullyglass House Hotel in Ballymena, Northern Ireland. A key non-playing member as the drone technician for 13-time World […]
Before the Celtic Connections Festival this year, my only experience listening to the National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland, or the NYPB, had been various YouTube and social media clips. I cannot quite believe that this concert, named 20 Years Young, has come around so soon, celebrating a significant milestone in the project’s journey.
The Piobaireachd Society has announced the recommended requirements for the Gold and Silver medals at the major gatherings in 2024, with a decided return to a variety of mostly well-kent music. True to the organization’s announcement in 2022, those eligible to compete in the “Senior” events – primarily the Clasp […]
As expected, BBC Radio Scotland has now formally announced that a replacement program for the long-running “Pipeline” program will start on the night of April 8th at the exact same 9-10pm GMT slot that its predecessor held. “Piping Sounds” will be hosted initially by Micheal Steele, with additional hosts coming […]
We continue with the second and final part of our exclusive discussion with Gary West of Edinburgh, who, on April 1st, will host the final broadcast of Pipeline, the weekly BBC Radio Scotland show dedicated to piping that has been a staple in various forms for more than a century. […]