The contestants and dates of the next Scots Guards Association’s popular Knockout series have been announced. The pipers are required to perform a set lasting 30 minutes. The set needs to contain one March, Strathspey and Reel and the ground of a piobaireachd. An audience vote decides the winner of […]
• PART 17 • BY JEANNIE CAMPBELL MBE. The Highland Gathering 1905 On Whit Monday, June 12, 1905 the eleventh L.H.A.C. Highland Gathering took place at the new Stamford Bridge grounds with 6000 spectators. The weather was dull but the threatening showers kept off until the programme was almost completed. […]
Harmony Writing Part Eight. By TIM CUMMINGS. Piping Today #92, 2018. We have arrived at the eighth and last article on writing harmonies for pipe bands and other pipe ensembles — for the time being, at least. In the previous seven articles, we explored a progression of approaches to crafting […]
Four weeks ago, on Monday, August 14 at Piping Live! 2023, the Masters Solo Piping Competition was in full swing in The National Piping Centre Auditorium. The piobaireachd event was held throughout the day with 20 competitors and was won by Bruce Gandy, which gave him the overall Masters title for 2023 […]
The Springbank Invitational took place at the Argyll Arms Hotel, Campbeltown, Argyllshire, on Saturday, September 16, 2023. Fred Morrison was winner of the Piobaireachd competition and Stuart Liddell was the overall winner with a first place in the MSR and a second in the Piobaireachd. The full list of competitors […]
by Fergus Muirhead, at the Glenfiddich Piping Championship 2019 One of the biggest decisions a competitor has to make during his or her preparation for a competition is the tunes they are going to submit. In some events they have a free choice of music while in others they have […]
GREY’S NOTES by Michael Grey. Piping Today #83, 2016. When I first starting competing in Scotland and going around the competitions, there was no shortage of fun to go along with the games. Like today, only it seems to me that then there were more eccentric, larger-than-life types around the […]
Harmony Writing Part Eight. By TIM CUMMINGS. Piping Today #92, 2018. We have arrived at the eighth and last article on writing harmonies for pipe bands and other pipe ensembles — for the time being, at least. In the previous seven articles, we explored a progression of approaches to crafting […]
Four weeks ago, on Monday, August 14 at Piping Live! 2023, the Masters Solo Piping Competition was in full swing in The National Piping Centre Auditorium. The piobaireachd event was held throughout the day with 20 competitors and was won by Bruce Gandy, which gave him the overall Masters title for 2023 […]
Bagpipe News reporter investigates new footage of Donald Drone at Glasgow Green and reveals what really caused a delay for Grade 1 prizes at the Worlds this year!
Information about Ardrossan Castle can be found on the North Ayrshire Heritage website here.
The 78th Fraser Highlanders Pipe Band have announced Michael Grey as their new Pipe Major. Mike is a well known figure throughout every facet of the piping world, whether it be solo piping, pipe bands, piping albums and recordings, pipe tune compositions and tune books, piping adjudication, piping tuition, or […]
Eight of the world’s best pipers will be competing at The Springbank Invitational Competition, held at the Argyll Arms Hotel, Campbeltown, Argyllshire, on Saturday, September 16 commencing 10am. The competition was initiated in 2000 by the Kintyre Piping Society and has been sponsored by the local Springbank Distillery since its […]
The amateur solo piping competitions of Chatsworth Country Fair were held on September 2 in the grounds of Chatsworth House in the Derbyshire Dales, England’s Peak District. The overall champion of Senior competition on September 3 was Callum Beaumont and the full results can be viewed here. The Competition League […]
