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The organizers of the Midwest Highland Arts Fund’s 2008 Winter Storm weekend are set for record attendance at the event, running from January 11th to 13th in Kansas City, Missouri. Now in its seventh year . . .

After a year in Grade 1, the Fredericton Society of St. Andrew Pipe Band has formally asked the Atlantic Pipe Band Association to assign it to Grade 2. In a statement to pipes|drums, the band cited . . .

Only two full days after the Grade 1 Fredericton Society of St. Andrew Pipe Band voted as a band to submit a formal request to the Grading Committee of the Atlantic Canada Pipe Band Association, the band . . .

A band of all-star pipers and drummers has been formed, with Roddy MacLeod as pipe-major and John Fisher as leading-drummer, featuring a roster that reads like a who’s who . . .

Glasgow’s Celtic Connections music festival, the annual winter music celebration in Scotland’s biggest city, begins its 10-day piping program on . . .

The Grade 2 St. Andrews Society of Winnipeg Pipe Band completed two concerts in their home town at the Jubilee Theatre to large houses on January . . .

Innovation Promotions, a new business launched in early January by Jim Kilpatrick, Tyler Fry and Scott Currie, has secured its first event, a weekend of drumming instruction followed by a competition in London, Ontario. The May 3-4, 2008, event is being p

When the Boghall & Bathgate Caledonia Pipe Band takes the stage of the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall on Saturday afternoon as part of Celtic Connections’ annual pipe band concert, the . . .

With a January 24th performance at Robert Redford’s Sundance Film Festival under its belt, Lorne Cousin’s new “bagpipe supergroup,” DRAM!, is setting out to change the way the . . .

The eighth Set Tunes Series by Dr. William Donaldson of Aberdeen, Scotland, will feature detailed and ground-breaking analysis of 16 piobaireachds set by the Piobaireachd Society for this year’s Gold and Silver Medal competitions. As with the previous sev

The Phoenix Honda Glasgow Skye Pipe Band plans to mark its fortieth anniversary year in style by feting all current and former members and supporters at a celebration party at the Glasgow Marriott Hotel on April 19th. The band promises . . .

The Eastern United States Pipe Band Association (EUSPBA) has announced its regradings for the 2008 season and, along with five other bands in the lower grades moving up, the Oran Mor Pipe Band of Albany, New York, has been upgraded to . . .

At the annual Scots Trad Music Awards on December 1st in Fort William, Scotland, the Red Hot Chilli Pipers were named Live Act of the Year, after being nominated with the established Celtic folk groups . . .

The Pipes & Drums of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards have found themselves sandwiched between the unlikely combination of Celine Dion and Michael Buble at number 17 on the UK Pop Music Charts after the debut of the band’s CD, ‘Spirit of the Glen’ on the Un

The Toronto Branch of the Pipers & Pipe Band Society of Ontario (PPBSO) is planning to hold a new piping competition for “the top Grade 1 solo players in the province of Ontario.” The annual event is to be held in February . . .