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For the second straight year, pipes|drums will stage a piping and drumming “Pub Quiz” at Piping Live!, with this year’s event scheduled for 2 pm on Thursday, August 13th . . .

The UK’s Sunday Times newspaper has reported on the long-running legal issue of performers’ rights and legal rulings pertaining to the capture . . .

The National Piping Centre is still based in Glasgow, but it will hold special piping events in Edinburgh as part of The Gathering 2009 festival . . .

As part of its effort to increase participation in solo snare drumming competitions, the “duty piper” that the Pipers & Pipe Band Society of Ontario offers to Grade 5 . . .

The original 1987 collection by Ian and Gordon Duncan, A Few Tunes for the Highland Bagpipe, is being . . .

Highland Games returned to the city of Oshawa, Ontario, for the first time in more than 30 years, but bad weather put a dark cloud . . .

Whenever Sir Paul McCartney includes his 1977 hit “Mull of Kintyre” in a concert play list he engages a top local pipe band, so when he . . .

The third annual “Drumming for Drinks” competition at the University of Strahclyde’s Lord Todd Bar on Wednesday, August 12th, will expand to include . . .

The Haddington Pipe Band of East Lothian, Scotland, has been nominated twice in the Scottish Event Awards competition, which honours . . .

The last and only time that all of the tickets were sold for the annual pipe band concert at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall before the World . . .

Just a few days after pipes|drums reported that only about 300 tickets were left for the 2008 World Champion Simon Fraser University Pipe Band’s August 12th . . .

With two Canadian astronauts aboard the International Space Station for the first time in history, all three bands of the Hamilton Police Pipe Band organization . . .

The UK-based bands that pre-qualified from results of the previous three major championships . . .

The Saul Bass & Tenor Drum Tuner, a follow-on to the Saul Bagpipe Tuner launched last year, will make its debut at the 2009 Piping Live! Glasgow Festival . . .

With the Seattle Highland Games being the final competition of the 2009 British Columbia Pipers Association season, the organization . . .