Pipe Major Iain Grant of Barrhead & District Pipe Band is seeking pipers for Grade 4b. If you have played Grade 3, Grade 4 or Juvenile and are now looking to get back into competing again (along with other events), then please email Iain. The band practice on Tuesdays and […]
Piper Eve Muirhead has won the gold medal – but not at Oban or Inverness. The talented player, who launched the Piping Live! programme in 2010, triumphed in the Beijing Winter Olympics as skip of the women’s Team GB curling team. Congratulations!
The green shoots of covid recovery are emerging with the Cowal Gathering announcing on February 14 that it will return to Dunoon Stadium in 2022. This follows on from the welcome announcements from the RSPBA and PPBSO over the past few weeks that planning is well underway for a full […]
The Bagpipe Shop, based within The National Piping Centre, is looking to recruit a new assistant. They are looking for someone dynamic and friendly to join a small team to assist the current staff in the day to day running of the retail operation. This is an exciting opportunity to […]
Where are you from and how did you get into piping?I live in Austria, in a village called Zurndorf. Before I started on the pipes, my brother already played the snare drum and one of his friends was playing the pipes. When I was 19 years old, they just decided […]
Piper, multi-instrumentalist and composer Kenneth I MacKenzie released Glendrian, his Scottish traditional music album yesterday, February 11, 2022. The album’s title track is played on Highland pipes and takes its name from a depopulated settlement in Ardnamurchan – a peninsula in Lochaber and area with family connections for Kenny. Elsewhere, […]
Dr Masami Yamane, who founded the Tokyo Pipe Band in 1975, and is credited as being the first piper in Japan, died in February 2022 aged 91.
The ‘new normal’ way for pipers to compete and consume piping will undoubtedly include online competitions and concerts live streamed to every corner of the world. The online offering brings a lot of positives. However, everyone wants the ‘old normal’ to be reinstated ASAP. Children have been playing organised football […]
Days four and five of the February Piping Challenge were presented by Dan Nevans. Day four focused on dreaming big when setting your short and long term piping goals, and can be watched here on The National Piping Centre’s Facebook page. Day five was all about learning tunes, and using […]
On day three of the Challenge Steven Blake, Director of The National Youth Pipe Band, spoke about hand changing and note changing cleanly without any crossing noises.
