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Two ambitious one-day piping and drumming workshops within 50 kilometres of one another in Ontario this spring have worked hard . . .

Under new direction the Cobourg Highland Games returned in 2013 to the Ontario competition circuit in a big way by flying . . .

One of the world’s most creative solo piping competitions returns bigger and better for the Scottish off-season with the 2014 edition of the Pipe-Majors Wheel of Fortune . . .

The Red Hot Chilli Pipers are used to enjoying success and popularity, but a video of the band covering Avicii’s hit, “Wake Me Up,” . . .

The 2014 Metro Cup Piping Competition will be the latest international event that Scotland’s National Piping Centre will stream live on the Internet in a pay-per-view format, pipes|drums has . . .

After a collective 30 years as leader of the Pleasanton / Santa Rosa games in California, Bill Merriman has retired, handing over the job . . .

In an attempt to deal with large entries and time constraints for its Professional Piobaireachd competitions, the Pipers & Pipe Band Society . . .

A three-way movement of bass drummers between the Grade 1 Simon Fraser University of Vancouver and Los Angeles Scots and the Grade 2 . . .

Highland piper Xavier Boderiou of Brittany has made a name for himself with bands, solo competition, chanter manufacturing and reedmaking, and now he’s …

George “Geordie” Pryde, the long-time Leading-Drum …

In the 20 years since the annual January Celtic Connections festival in Glasgow launched, Highland piping has generally been in the background, especially when . . .

The ball has dropped on the year that was 2013 in piping and drumming, and the standard we saw in the last 12 months was, without doubt, the greatest ever, so again . . .

Only 13 bands in history have been official World Pipe Band Champions, and the future of one of them, Dysart & Dundonald, is in jeopardy after announcing cancellation of its . . .

The Grade 1 Vale of Atholl Pipe Band has made another leadership change, this time very much planned, with the appointment of Alistair “Bongo” McNab to the role of . . .

The amateur solo piping competitions introduced to the Newark, New Jersey, Metro Express workshops last year by Scotland’s National . . .