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Seven of the world’s top drummers, including three World Solo Champions, will offer their talents to charity when they take part in the second annual Charity Piping & Drumming Nite at the Royal . . .

The Grade 2 Dartmouth & District Pipe Band of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, has secured Jeremy White as its new Leading-Drummer. White was most recently head of the . . .

Roddy MacLeod’s piobaireachd website, Roddy MacLeod Piobaireachd, has gone live after four months of planning and preparation. The site complements . . .

Possibly for the first time ever, two piping-related albums reached the UK’s official top 100 chart for sales, with the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards ‘Spirit of the Glen’ and the Red Hot Chilli Pipers’ ‘Bagrock for the Masses’ hitting . . .

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At a special meeting called on December 30th, the Board of Directors of the British Columbia Pipers Association (BCPA) unanimously approved the promotion of the Triumph Street Pipe Band to Grade 1. The upgrade came after several months of the association

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Bob Allen, who served as President of the Pipers & Pipe Band Society of Ontario from 1997 to 2005, was again elected to the position at the organization’s annual general meeting in Acton, Ontario. Allen won the post in an election against incumbent . . .

The Scottish Pipers Society of London competitions on November 3, 2007, were the last events in the long and storied career of Colin MacLellan, one of this era’s . . .

The well known piper, composer and teacher Bruce Gandy of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, lost untold original tunes, seminar notes and recordings from the last six years when his . . .

The Grade 1 Toronto Police Pipe Band has appointed the well known composer Michael Grey as its Pipe-Sergeant, as it continues to expand its ranks with addition of several new pipers . . .

The paparazzi, the limos, the autograph-hounds: it’s not easy being a military pipe band these days. And balance that with the Grade 2 Pipes & Drums of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards serving in active duty in Iraq . . .

The Northern Meeting Piping Competitions ¨C generally referred to by pipers as “nverness” ¨C will return to Eden Court Theatre in Inverness after residing in Aviemore for the last three years while the theatre . . ..

The 9 million or so people who populate the area around the city of Toronto have a rare opportunity to choose from two major piping and drumming events occurring . . .

Top-tier solo pipers Jack Lee and Willie McCallum have confirmed that they will travel to compete at the annual Metro Cup Solo Piping Championship February 16 . . .