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As part of pipes|drums Magazine’s sponsorship of the Street Caf¨¦ marquee tent at the National Piping Centre at 1:15 pm on Wednesday, August 10th . . .

The largest North American Championships in recent memory in terms of band and solo piping and drumming entries is set for July 29-30 . . .

Not many civilian pipe bands these days reach a half-century, but the Glengarry Pipe Band of Maxville, Ontario, will do exactly that . . .

The Grade 1 event at the 2011 European Pipe Band Championships will be streamed live over the Internet, the RSPBA’s Northern Ireland branch has confirmed. The event will take place in Belfast on Saturday, July 30th, with the broadcast starting at 2 pm . . .

The practice chanter that Pipe-Major Donald MacLeod MBE said belonged to the legendary Angus MacKay will be returned to . . .

Ottawa’s Sons of Scotland, Canada’s oldest civilian pipe band, will perform for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge ¨C William and Kate ¨C when the newly . . .

The prestigious MacCrimmon Trophy at the Festival Interceltique de Lorient in Lorient, Brittany, is the latest piping competition . . .

After teaching piping in the Christchurch area for more than three decades, winning dozens of top solo piping awards and leading a . . .

The 50 tunes that were originally published in 1826 by Donald MacDonald have been painstakingly collected and analyzed in a new publication from the Piobaireachd . . .

Despite being Scotland’s second-largest city and the country’s capital, 15 years have passed since Edinburgh has hosted an outdoor pipe band competition, but the July 24th Edinburgh Pipe Band Championships . . .

Ian Conn was born in Edinburgh, raised in Galashie …

A giant of the pipe band world passes away at age 75.

With most schools it’s a championship sports team that students rally around and, while Dollar Academy also loves its athletics, it’s the championship pipe band that is . . .

A pioneer of pipe band bass drumming, a legendary member of the Boghall & Bathgate Caledonia Pipe Band, and the man for which ‘The Big Road Brusher’ was named, passes away at age 75.

As part of its sponsorship of the Street Caf¨¦ at Piping Live!, pipes|drums Magazine has announced that it will bring four of the world’s greatest Pipe-Major and Leading-Drummer combinations in a free one-hour “ipes+Drums” concert beginning at 2 pm sharp on Wednesday, August 10th outside of the National Piping Centre . . .i