GREY’S NOTES by Michael Grey. Piping Today #71, 2014. You know you’re a seriously regular visitor to Glasgow when someone stops you on the street, asks for directions and you can help – and with mostly reliable info. It’s the last Friday of the Commonwealth Games and thanks to years […]
NINE NOTES AND MORE… by Stuart Robertson. Piping Today #41 2009. Chris Djuritschek is a piper and composer many of you will not be aware of. Originally from Motherwell in Lanarkshire, he was taught by local piper Alex Martin. Chris took up the pipes aged 10 and quickly set forth […]
1884/85 BY JEANNIE CAMPBELL MBE In March 1884 there was an announcement that the Scottish Gathering would change dates that year: “The annual Scottish Gathering, the proceeds of which are given to the Scottish charities in London, has been fixed to take place on Saturday 21st June at Stamford Bridge […]
PIOBAIREACHD TUITION by Bill Livingstone Piping Today #98, 2019. I once was judging a piobaireachd competition with the great John MacDougall and a piper performing before us had finished his tune. It had no errors, the pipe was fine, technique fine, but John turned to me and said: “Bill, I’m […]
When you put on a kilt you are making a statement: creating an identity for yourself, or at the very least – like to believe you look smart in it no matter what age you are. I interviewed Scotland’s most radical kilt designer, Howie Nicholsby, to get his take on […]
Jackie Bogan is now a young 90-year-old, and still playing regularly with the Northampton Pipe Band. Chatting with him was like catching a glimpse of history, with names of piping legends and a time when life was very different to the one we live today. Born in Greenock in 1931, […]
1975 BY JEANNIE CAMPBELL MBE Competitors in the Open and Clasp competitions in 1975 were required to submit four tunes from this list of six: The Battle of Glensheil, The Sister’s Lament, Nameless, Hihio-tro tro, The Park Piobaireachd No. 1, The Old Woman’s Lullaby and Salute on the Birth of Rory Mor. For […]
Bagpipe.news was recently contacted by Clive Douglas after reading our article written by Alan Forbes on Royal Scottish Pipers’ Society, which can be found here. Clive spotted the name of Somerled MacDonald in the article, and he thought he should share photos of a prize chanter which he owns which […]
GREY’S NOTES by Michael Grey. Piping Today #70, 2014. One of the people I teach, a young guy, about 17, is mad as hell about piping. He eats it up. Loves the tunes, loves to play. He’s crazy about piping — a lot like you maybe. I can tell you […]
These photos are some of the pipers from the Duncan Johnstone Memorial C Grade Jig competition in The National Piping Centre Auditorium on Saturday, March 12. Kyle Shead won the C Grade Jig and the new trophy – The Roddy MacLeod Trophy for Jig Playing. This was the first year […]
