The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Pipe Music Collection volume 1 was launched at Piping Live! in 2017. The tune book has been such a success, that it has allowed Volume 2 to be compiled using many of the high quality, unpublished tunes that could not been included in the first […]
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Big entry for the Dunvegan Medal at the Skye Games
The Dunvegan Medal will take place next week on Tuesday, August 2, and Piping Convenor Cameron MacFadyen told bagpipe.news that the competition has attracted a bumper entry of 26 competitors. The competition will take place in the Skye Gathering Hall, Portree, and starts at 8.30am. The list of Dunvegan Medal […]
Groundbreaking PPBSO Ottawa and Piping Live! tie-up for livestream
If you live in Ottawa and can’t be in Glasgow for Piping Live! this year, then you can still soak up some Piping Live! atmosphere in your home city. The PPBSO Ottawa Branch will be streaming three events at Vimy’s Brewing, Ottawa, as part of Piping Live! and the official […]
The 40th Nicol-Brown Amateur Invitational on hold till 2023
The Nicol-Brown Amateur Invitational which was due to be held on October 8 this year has been put on hold till 2023. The competition features the 10 best amateur pipers in North America and is dedicated to the memory of the ‘Bobs of Balmoral’ – Robert B. Nicol and Robert […]
Two days to enter the Heart o’ Down Championships on August 6, 2022
The Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association Northern Ireland Branch (RSPBANI) and Newry, Mourne and Down District Council are pleased to announce the launch of the Heart o’ Down Pipe Band Championships for 2022. This year’s event will be held in the familiar surroundings of Donard Park in Newcastle which played […]
Solo piping results from the Tomintoul Highland Games
The 179th Tomintoul Highland Games took place yesterday, July 16. It was a good day for playing with warm with light cloud cover. Twelve adults played, with eight in the junior Piobaireachd. There was a touching tribute paid to Patricia Grant who died last year. Patricia had been games secretary […]
Results from the Antigonish Highland Games and the Nova Scotia Pipe Band Championships
by IAIN BOYD. The 157th Antigonish Highland Games were held on Saturday, July 9 and Sunday, July 10 under warm and sunny conditions. A large crowd attended both days following a two-year hiatus brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic. Nine pipe bands competed for the Nova Scotia Pipe Band Championships on […]
Roddy MacLeod, Andrew Carlisle and Terry Tully in free online concert this Sunday from Balmoral School of Piping
The instructors for the Balmoral School’s 2022 Summer Piping & Drumming Camp are performing in concert in Edinboro, Pennsylvania, this coming Sunday, July 17 at 2:00pm (EDT). If watching from the UK, the concert will begin at 7pm on Sunday evening. The concert will be live streamed on bagpiping.org here […]
The Northern Meeting announces livestream for this year’s competition
The Northern Meeting Piping Competition, held at Eden Court in Inverness and renowned as one of the most prestigious piping competition in the world, will be live-streamed for the first time ever on Thursday, September 1 this year. Several of the events from world’s greatest non-invitational indoor solo piping competition […]
Glenfiddich Piping Championship 2022 tickets on sale now!
The National Piping Centre and William Grant Foundation are delighted to announce that the Glenfiddich Piping Championship 2022 will return for its 49th edition with in person and online audiences from 10am on Saturday, October 29, 2022. The Glenfiddich Piping Championship was established in 1974 to inspire the world’s finest […]