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The Uist & Barra Piping Competitions are one of Scotland’s longest running solo events, usually marking the start of the year’s contest season. But the 2007 competition . . .

A new Toronto Branch Championship Solo Piping Competition will be held as part of the Toronto Indoor Games on . . .

The Grade 2 Marlacoo Pipe Band of Northern Ireland has announced that it will host the 2006 World Champions Field Marshal Montgomery . . .

2006 World Pipe Band Champions Field Marshal Montgomery has officially struck a deal with Premier Percussion . . .

James MacHattie will return to British Columbia in the fall of 2007 and has handed back the pipe-majorship of the Grade 1 Toronto Police . . .

The popular side-drummer Jim Agnew died on February 11, 2007, at his home in the Niagara region of Ontario . . .

pipes|drums has received from reliable sources the preliminary allocations for the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association’s 2007 major championships . . .

The Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association has asked bands that have competed in recent World Pipe Band Championships . . .

The world’s non-UK Grade 1 bands are making their travel plans for the northern hemisphere’s competition season and a few familiar names have already decided . . .

ScottishPower is the latest top-tier Grade 1 band to make a drumming hardware change, announcing that they have completed a sponsorship deal with Pearl Percussion that will see the band perform and compete with . . .

Norman Gillies, one of the best pipers of his generation, died peacefully on February 25 at his home in Ullapool, Scotland.

2006 World Pipe Band Champions Field Marshal Montgomery of Belfast have revealed that its deal with Premier Percussion announced in early February will last at least three years. The endorsement contract started . . .

Glasgow National Piping Centre is further expanding its network of piping and drumming summer schools with the addition of a Winter School . . .

The remaining members of the dissolved Robert Malcolm Memorial II Pipe Band (RMM2) have joined with the members of the Triumph Street Pipe Band of Vancouver to re-launch Triumph Street . . .

Scotland’s Competition League for Amateur Solo Pipers (CLASP) has announced that it has expanded once again with the Northern Meeting Piping Competitions . . .