The Weekend Piping Club is a fantastic learning place for new players and those that already play. Aimed at young learners, aged 6-17, classes are taught in small groups at The National Piping Centre in McPhater Street. The Weekend Piping Club takes place on Saturdays, and there are six levels […]
The National Piping Centre is inviting more women to contribute to their survey on the experiences of women in the piping and drumming community in Scotland, after a fantastic initial response that saw hundreds of women come forward to share their views. The extension of the survey comes as The […]
Bagpipe.news has been contacted by a reader looking to sell a set of full silver Highland Pipes made by Alastair Fletcher of Glasgow. The blueprint for the pipes was taken from the late P/M Angus MacDonald’s set of Henderson pipes. The pipes are made from African Blackwood and feature hallmarked […]
Entries are open for the 2024 New Zealand Pipe Band Championships in New Zealand’s largest city, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. Royal New Zealand Pipe Bands Association President Iain Blakeley said: “The 2024 ‘Nationals’ provides bands from across New Zealand, Australia, and from around the world the perfect opportunity to enjoy first-rate pipe band music in our […]
Lonach Games have announced that competitors will be asked to submit six piobaireachd at the games tomorrow, August 26. Online entries closed on August 13, but entries will be accepted on the field. The competition starts at 10.30am. Entries will not be accepted after the start of the competition. […]
Piping Live! on a Sunday has a chilled vibe which is most welcome at the end of a busy week and following an exciting day at the World Pipe Band Championships on the Saturday. The events get underway on Sunday afternoon and a packed NPC auditorium watched Anna Smart, Alastair […]
The majority of the piping world had their eyes on the Grade 1 competition at Glasgow Green on Friday, August 18, and would have missed the public debut of the music of Magnus and Flora Stone from the US. The audience in the Street Cafe were treated to new music […]
Stuart Liddell was the winner of the Pipe Major Alasdair Gillies Memorial Recital for 2023. Stuart played first and his piping and entertaining showmanship received a rapturous response from the large audience. Earlier in the evening, 15-year-old Cameron Bonar from Canada won the final of Pipe Idol receiving a set […]
A special limited edition tune book was launched yesterday at Piping Live! The National Piping Centre have marked their 25th anniversary by publishing a beautiful, hard bound book containing compositions from pipers who have had connections to the Centre over the last 25 years. There are only 250 copies of […]
Busy, busy, busy – or packed out – seemed to be the recurring theme at every Piping Live! venue yesterday. Whether in the bustling Street Cafe, the NPC auditorium, or the sold-out Strathclyde suite, the audiences were out supporting and enjoying the live music.
