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pipes|drums has learned from two separate inside sources that the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association will reportedly announce plans to make the World Pipe Band Championships a two-day competition, beginning in 2013 . . .

While he’s a prominent light music composer with two collections published so far and scores of arrangements for pipe bands over his . . .

In 1998 Jim McGillivray’s Rhythmic Fingerwork defined a new approach to developing light music technique, and now the Aurora, Ontario-based piper will unveil Piobaireachd Fingerwork, a 120-page, 10-chapter guide . . .

The newest American Grade 1 band is the latest to sign a sponsorship agreement with Premier Percussion to play the English manufacturer’s instruments “for the foreseeable future,” according to City of Chicago Pipe Band . . .

For at least a weekend in January, Kansas becomes famous for something more than barbecue, fountains and a customarily poor baseball team, as the 2012 iteration . . .

One of the most powerful newspapers in the world, The New York Times, this week featured piping on its front page when Jori . . .

The annual “Piping Concert” at the Celtic Connections festival in Glasgow next week features two bands that will make their first appearances in a full-length show, when the Spirit of Scotland . . .

As one of the pipe band world’s oldest franchises, the Lothian & Borders Police have more than a century of tradition to look back upon . . .

The Grade 2 Penetangore Pipe Band of Kincardine, Ontario, has appointed Jamie Connolly as its new pipe-major after the previous leader emigrated from Canada to settle in Europe. Connolly has a long history of leadership experience in the top grades. He was previously pipe-major of the Toronto . . .

Despite the potential of a full tuition scholarship worth upwards of $30,000 annually in tuition fees, Monmouth College reports that inquiries from pipers and drummers have been few . . .

It is with a heavy heart that we inform you of the …

pipes|drums Magazine once again assembles a panel of experts to choose which piper, drummer, band, event and product are awarded our coveted New Year’s Honours.

Call it Grey marketing. Michael Grey, one of the piping world’s most prolific composers, has made his 68-page fifth collection, Music for Everyone, available to all for free . . .

The general public’s interest in pipe band competitive drama continues with BBC2 Northern Ireland’s broadcast of “Pipe Dreamers,” . . .

Duncan MacRae of London, Ontario, was elected to a two-year term as President of the Pipers & Pipe Band Society of Ontario by . . .