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

Ending weeks of rumours, the Grade 1 Dysart & Dundonald Pipe Band officially appointed George Shepherd as its new pipe-major. Shepherd replaces . . .

The Grade 1 Clan Gregor Society Pipe Band of Scotland has disbanded following a full band meeting several weeks . . .

John Moneagle has resigned as Lead-Drummer of the Grade 1 Tayside Police of Dundee, Scotland, and corps drummer Ian Tobin has taken over in a move that had apparently . . .

pipes|drums has learned that the RSPBA’s Music Board has recommended that Torphichen & Bathgate of Scotland and Bagad Cap Caval of Brittany . . .

David Clunie, leader of the Grade 1 Clan Gregor Society Pipe Band before its dissolution in early October, has been made . . .

The annual Metro Cup Solo Invitational Piping Championship will have its usual cast of premier pipers on February 21, 2009, but this year will . . .

It’s difficult for those living in most other countries to understand, but, during the NHL hockey season, “Hockey Night in Canada” is the . . .

In preparation for the band’s planned trip to Scotland to compete in Grade 1 at the 2009 World Pipe Band Championships, New Zealand’s . . .

The Chatham Highland Games, a staple on the Ontario circuit since the early-1990s and a designated . . .

The 100-plus-years tradition of the Royal Scottish Pipers’ Society to exclude women from joining will continue, after a proposal to abolish the gender discrimination . . .

The biggest day for competing solo pipers and drummers rolls around again on Saturday, October 25th, when the Glenfiddich Invitational Solo Piping Championship and the World Solo Drumming . . .

After six years of service that included helping to start the project itself, Paul Warren has resigned as Director of The National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland, a band organized by the National Piping . . .

The famous piper and Gaelic singer Finlay MacNeill …

In the wake of worldwide discussion of the Royal Scottish Pipers’ Society’s recent decision to keep its membership males-only, Scotland’s Competing Pipers Association . . .