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Colin MacLellan of Edinburgh is sharing his knowledge of piobaireachd by making recordings of his playing and lessons on the 2008 Silver Medal tunes set by the . . .

Robert Wiseman Dairies-Vale of Atholl is a band that is never afraid to try something new and the Scottish Pipe Band Championships . . .

Scotland’s Competition League of Amateur Solo Pipers (CLASP) has formed a new relationship with the Scottish Piping Society of London’s annual competitions and will for the first time offer events in November . . .

The world’s community of tenor-drummers plans to boycott the entire 2008 competition season, if everything goes to the plan devised by two tenor-players . . .

For the last 12 years “Pipefest” has held events in various parts of the Scotland and the United States to raise money for cancer charities, but in 2010 the organization will attempt to unify . . .

The Pipes & Drums of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards’ CD, Spirit of the Glen, has been nominated for Album of the Year in the . . .

The 2008 World Pipe Band Championships will be without the reigning New Zealand Champions after the Manawatu Scottish has had to cancel its plans to make . . .

The Pacific Northwest-based Mastery of Scottish Arts, which organizes an annual star-studded school of piping and drumming and concert, has merged with the Washington-based Celtic Arts Foundation to form a much larger registered . . .

The Windsor Police Pipe Band of Windsor, Ontario, is the latest non-UK Grade 1 band to cancel plans to travel to Scotland to compete at the 2008 World . . .

The recently announced Innovation London 2008 workshop for pipe band drummers will also include a new . . .

Scotland’s First Minister Alex Salmond surprised the Red Hot Chilli Pipers last week with a presentation of the band’s first platinum disc as the group . . .

For one of the few times in RSPBA history a new band has been assigned to Grade 1, with the Spirit of Scotland Pipe Band to . . .

The Grade 1 City of Washington Pipe Band of Washington, DC, is preparing for the 2008 competition season with the most change the band has seen . . .

Pipe band will soon be able to more easily customize their ensemble sound with Premier Music International of England and Hosbilt of Tiverton, Ontario, extended their . . .

Some 33 accredited piping and drumming adjudicators attended the Pipers & Pipe Band Society of Ontario’s 2008 Judges’ Seminar in Milton, Ontario, as part of the organization’s ongoing . . .