Sign up to the National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland’s free music workshop, being held on Sunday, June 18 at The National Piping Centre. This workshop brings together young music-makers in Glasgow to look at Mackay’s Memoirs by Martyn Bennett. Martyn wrote this piece originally for young people to play, […]
The final entry date for the Masters Solo Piping Competition is June 26 and entry forms are available from the download link here: Entry forms to be submitted by email to: themasters@thepipingcentre.co.uk The competition will take place at Piping Live! on August 14 2023 and audience tickets are available here. […]
Brian Spalding has taken over from James Beaton as Piping Secretary at the Inveraray Highland Games, and he contacted bagpipe.news recently with the information below for this year’s solo piping entries. The Inveraray Highland Games takes place in the grounds of Inveraray Castle on Tuesday, July 18, 2023. Solo piping […]
Belfast TradFest has world-class traditional music concerts, fiery pub sessions and a growing summer school of traditional music. It is set to celebrate its 5th edition this July across Belfast UNESCO City of Music. The festival marks this milestone with an ambitious programme of music, that will be held between […]
Jeannie Campbell MBE will be well-known to bagpipe.news readers as the author of the History of the Argyllshire Gathering and Piping In London series. In 2021 Jeannie published a book titled, Pipe Bands, which was very popular and quickly sold out. Jeannie has just informed bagpipe.news that the book has […]
The World Amateur Champion of Champions Solo Piping Competition will be held on 27th April 2024 The Competition League for Amateur Solo Pipers (The CLASP) was set up by The National Piping Centre in 2003 to give adult amateur pipers a competition platform to compete on, through a series of […]
By Derek Doyle, Learning Development Officer The need for the Education Scotland inspection of The National Piping Centre was two-fold. First, in order to allow TNPC to recruit non-UK students for certificated programmes of more than six months, we are required to have educational oversight. So, it was the first hurdle […]
A study into the underrepresentation of women in Scotland’s piping and drumming scene has been launched by The National Piping Centre, in collaboration with the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Entitled Women in Piping and Drumming: Equality, Inclusivity, and Diversity, the six-month study is launching an online survey, designed to gain […]
There are only 24 hours left for Junior piping entries to the Carrick Lowland Gathering at Girvan, which which will be held on June 4 in the South Ayrshire town. The Juvenile Solo Piping Competition is organised by Girvan Attractions and the contest starts at 12 noon. Entries close on […]
Piper, composer and Donald Drone cartoonist Iain Bell, from Dumfriesshire, has had four tunes published in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police 150th collection tune book. It all came about by happy coincidence, which demonstrates the fellowship and common bond between pipers and drummers worldwide. Former RCMP C/Supt. and piper Rod […]
