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Reminiscent of the approach that the Spirit of Scotland Pipe Band took in early 2008, the “North American Pipe Band” has been formed in California from players . . .

An invitation to perform at the 10-day-long 2009 Festival Interceltique in Lorient, Brittany, in August was too much for the Grade 1 Toronto Police Pipe Band to resist . . .

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After the RSPBA’s March 2008 decision to drop the Best Bass-Section awards from the three major championships at which they were offered, the decades-long tradition . . .

No fewer than seven piping and drumming events and artists have been nominated for this year’s Trad Music Awards, a people’s choice contest . . .

Prince Edward Island’s College of Piping is in the midst of one of probably the biggest fund-raising campaigns in the history of piping and drumming as it plans to . . .

The bass and tenor drummers of the 2008 World Champion Simon Fraser University Pipe Band have been chosen by readers of pipes|drums to receive the 2008 Hosbilt Cup . . .

The thirteenth annual George Sherriff Memorial Amateur Invitational Solo Piping Competition on Saturday, November 15th, in Hamilton, Ontario, will see 12 of . . .

Ian Swinton, a living legend in North American pipe band circles, has announced that he is retiring from competition after 34 years with . . .

John “Jackie” Fair, long-time bass-drummer with th …

In addition to the customary reports and executive elections, the annual general meeting of the Pipers & Pipe Band Society of Ontario on Saturday, November 22 . . .

Grade 1 bands from the United States actually competing head-to-head is an infrequent occurrence due to the country’s size and the fact . . .

The annual general meeting of the Pipers & Pipe Band Society of Ontario was attended by 63 people ¨C or about six per cent of the organization’s approximately 1100 . . .

It was standing-room only for a musical tribute in Hamilton, Ontario, for the late Scott MacAulay, the well known piper and Director of the College of Piping . . .

Following the overwhelming success and popularity of the “people’s choice” format for awarding the 2008 Hosbilt Cup to the bass-section . . .