By JEANNIE CAMPBELL MBE • PART 1 • JANUARY In 1924 many of the news items might have been familiar to us today, while other events were historical firsts. There were concerns over rail strikes which disrupted travel and some serious troubles on the political scene were reported. Poverty was […]
Alistair G Hanning was born on 17 March, 1962, in Wellington, New Zealand into the famous Hanning piping family. After a long hard-fought battle with cancer Alistair passed on 9 April, 2024, aged 62. Taught by his father, Oban Gold medallist John, he showed prodigious talent from an early age […]
By STUART MILNE. What do you get when a Highland piper gatecrashes a Tongan wedding? That’s a question that can only be answered in Auckland – home to the world’s largest Pacific Islander population and host of the 2024 New Zealand Pipe Band Championships on 15-16 March. As New Zealand’s […]
Today’s member of the Competition League for Amateur Solo Pipers to be featured is Ted Hales who is originally from Santa Barbara in California. CLASP is the National Piping Centre’s circuit of graded solo piping competitions for adult amateur pipers. More information can be found on the CLASP website here. […]
By JEANNIE CAMPBELL MBE • PART 1 • JAN to MARCH 1824 Looking back 200 years to 1824 we find that although the bagpipe and the piper are easily recognisable, the world around them was very different. The Jacobites were no longer considered a threat to the establishment and the Act […]
GREY’S NOTES by Michael Grey. Piping Today #87 • 2017. Every June in the town where I live there’s something called Buskerfest. It’s pretty much what you’d expect: a festival of street performers. The whole of the main drag in town is taken over by a good cross-section of the […]
Today’s member of the Competition League for Amateur Solo Pipers to be featured is Con Houlihan from North Cork in the famous Sliabh Luachra area of Ireland. CLASP is the National Piping Centre’s circuit of graded solo piping competitions for adult amateur pipers. More information can be found on the […]
Forty-eight piobaireachd enthusiasts from fourteen different U.S. states and two Canadian provinces flocked to Pittsburgh On February 9-11 for the second annual Jimmy McIntosh MBE Piobaireachd Workshop held at Carnegie Mellon University. Students came from as far away as Albuquerque, New Mexico; San Diego, California; and Calgary, Alberta. The action-packed […]
• PART 54 • BY JEANNIE CAMPBELL MBE. In 1989 the Argyllshire Gathering reverted to two days, August 23 and 24. Entry to the Gold Medal had been expanded to include those selected on merit by the Joint Committee of the Argyllshire Gathering and Northern Meeting so the number of […]
GREY’S NOTES by Michael Grey. Piping Today #86 • 2017. To be clear and direct in communicating – getting across what you really feel to your fellow person – must surely be one of the rarest of human traits. In my experience, it’s the norm for people to often do […]
