The attention of the solo piping world will head south at the end of this week when the Scottish Piping Society of London hold the prestigious Bratach Gorm. The competition is on Friday, November 3 in the Caledonian Club in London, with other professional events and competitions for A, B […]
The overall winner of the prestigious Glenfiddich Piping Championship 2023 has been named as Callum Beaumont, as the event celebrates five decades of sensational piping. The prestigious Championship, which was first held in 1974, was founded by Sandy Grant Gordon of William Grant and Sons, and Seumas MacNeill who was […]
The 27th Annual George Sherriff Memorial Invitational will held on on Saturday, November 18 at St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church in Hamilton, Ontario. The competition is organised by the ubiquitous Bob Worrall, who is currently travelling to Scotland to judge at the 50th Glenfiddich Piping Championship this weekend. The George Sherriff Memorial […]
The Argyllshire Gathering Trust’s Lochnell Intermediate Piping Championship will take place tomorrow, Saturday, October 21. The venue is the chapel at Lochnell Castle, near Benderloch, PA37 1QT, by kind permission of the Earl of Dundonald and hosted by his son Lord Archie Cochran. The competition is by invitation only and […]
This CLASP competition will run on Saturday, November 11, 2023 via the Zoom platform. The closing date for this competition is Sunday, October 22 at midnight (UK Time). Events will be offered to adult amateur pipers graded 1, 2, 3, 4/5 and both Light Music and Piobaireachd events will be […]
Aberdeenshire pupils are on the road to a life-time of piping, thanks to an award of bagpipes, on loan from the Scottish Schools Pipes and Drums Trust. Ten pupils from Alford Academy and associated primary schools Alford Primary, Cluny School, Midmar School, and Dunecht School will benefit from the award. […]
Police Scotland Fife Pipe Band are delighted to announce the appointment of Greig Canning as Pipe Sergeant. Greig is current Pipe Major of Lochgelly High School Pipe Band and joins as a multiple World Pipe Band Champion with Inveraray and District Pipe Band as well as being a former Pipe […]
Banbury and District Caledonian Pipe Band was formed in 1961 by John ‘Jock’ Laidlaw, an ex-piper of The Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders, and holder of the Burma Star medal. John is documented as the last piper of World War II to play into action in the Burma campaign. John was […]
After a late summer hiatus, The National Piping Centre has published new content on its ever growing YouTube channel. The three videos uploaded last week were: an interview with Big Rab and Dan Nevans at Piping Live! for The Piping Show, a new series with Andrew Bova titled Piping History, […]
Celtic Connections launched their 2024 concert programme today, October 10, and announced an exciting concert collaboration between the current Grade 1 World Champions, Peoples Ford Boghall and Bathgate Pipe Band and The National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland. The concert takes the usual Celtic Connections Saturday afternoon piping gig start […]
