It’s been 22 months since we set off for Ascension. In two more, all things being equal, we’ll arrive back in Scotland. It’s also eight months since I last wrote a ‘Piping on another planet’ blog for Bagpipe.News so now seems like a good time to round up our adventures […]
John Dew of Crieff, Scotland was the overall ‘Champion Piper’ at the 2021 online Atholl Gathering. Dew notched two firsts: in the Open MSR and the Hornpipe & Jig. In the big music, Ben McClamrock scooped the A Grade, Scott Armstron the B Grade and Kyle Howie the C Grade. […]
The piping scene in Northern Ireland is looking forward to a short festival of events this summer. The Northern Ireland branch of the RSPBA has confirmed dates and venues for three events: August 7 in Antrim – Pipe bands, Drum Majors and Highland dancers. August 21 in Cookstown – Solo […]
The next member of the Competition League for Amateur Solo Pipers (CLASP) to be profiled is Gill Cairns, who is currently domiciled in Malta. • Where are you from and how did you get into piping?I’m originally from Inverness, Scotland. I’ve lived around the world, most recently in Singapore, Madrid […]
The National Piping Centre’s (NPC) extended target to raise funds in order to digitise the archives of the Piping Times, Piping Today and International Piper has closed with just over £34,000 donated. The project also includes the production of the first new bumper edition Piping Times annual, which will be […]
By Keith Sanger I first subscribed to the Piping Times in 1969 so it is possible to look back at the last half century of its publication, first as a reader and then as an occasional contributor. At the time I first subscribed, the attraction of the ‘PT’ was that […]
1921-1922 By Jeannie Campbell In July 1921 the regatta was revived. Though the gathering was resumed in 1919, the Royal Highland Yacht Club did not resume because Royal Highland Yacht Club maintained that September was so far on in the year that yacht owners found it “inconvenient to sail their yachts […]
Colin Campbell died in Trianaid Care Home on Benbecula on Sunday. He was 87. His funeral will take place 11:00 on Thursday (27th) at the island’s Nunton Cemetery. Restrictions are still in place. Born in Norfolk, England, John Colin Fincastle Campbell of Kinloch was commissioned into The Black Watch as […]
I think it’s safe to say that ceòl mòr is enjoying its perhaps fourth revival. The post Jacobean/Ossianic era produced much interest and began the culture of competitive piobaireachd as we know it. Queen Victoria’s Scottish obsession spawned much of the fundament of piobaireachd recording and performance we have today […]
The Eilidh MacLeod Memorial Trust has launched a new funding scheme to support youth music groups across Scotland as the nation prepares to open up following the COVID-19 pandemic. The funding was launched just ahead of the fourth anniversary of the Manchester Arena terrorist attack that took 14-year-old Eilidh’s life […]
