Bruce Gandy was the winner of the Masters Solo Piping Competition on Monday, August 14 at Piping Live! 2023, winning on a piobaireachd preference. The win gives Bruce Gandy a place in this year’s Glenfiddich Piping Championship, and Alasdair Henderson wins the invite with flights and accommodation to the Sunbelt Invitational in […]
Sunday, August 20 is the day after the World Pipe Band Championships – but the piping doesn’t stop. The Gordon Duncan Memorial Piping Competition takes place on Sunday afternoon, then we have a trad music session with Tarran in Waxy O’Connors in the early evening, which fills the time nicely […]
The North Berwick Highland games took place yesterday, August 12, and it had a strong turn out of bands with just one week to go till the World Pipe Band Championships. The Grade 1 events were shared between Inveraray & District and Peoples Ford Boghall & Bathgate Caledonia, but Inveraray […]
by PETE GRANT, Piping Convenor. The Abernethy Highland Games took place at Nethy Bridge yesterday, August 12. This year we were delighted to welcome back Duncan Watson and Dr. Jack Taylor as our adjudicating team in the Senior competition, and to welcome Lewis Barclay to judge our Juniors for the […]
Piping Live! is set to commence in on Monday. If you’re planning to be there for the entire week, get ready for an intense musical experience. The schedule for Monday is jam-packed: featuring world-class solo piping in the Masters competition, a seven-hour-long music extravaganza at the Piping Live! Street Cafe, […]
Friday at Piping Live! 2023 brings the opportunity to complete your Pibroch Network Conversation, and be part of the Piping Live! Street Cafe Big Session. Last year’s Big Session was a cracker, so bring your bellows pipes, whistles, fiddles, guitars, bouzoukis, mandolins… whatever, and session in the Street Cafe from […]
Piping Live! Thursdays are always very busy around the The National Piping Centre and Street Cafe. Heat four of Pipe Idol, and the final, take place on Thursday and no doubt the Street Cafe and NPC auditorium will be packed for both. Get your tickets for the final early, or […]
Fred Morrison was the winner of the Dunvegan Medal at the Skye Gathering, held on August 8 and 9 in Portree. There was initially a tie for the overall winner prize between Fred and Ben Duncan, but it was settled by the rule book which states that Piobaireachd weighting is […]
Next Wednesday at Piping Live! is another day of wall to wall pipe music with something to suit every taste. There are five pipe band performances on Buchanan Street, including the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo Pipes & Drums visiting Glasgow for the day, and a Grade 1 pipe band practice […]
This time next week Glasgow will be full of pipers and drummers and Piping Live! has a full day of events planned to keep them entertained. See the listings below for daytime events and take your pick from pipe band performances, CLASP Grade 2 solo piping competition, a recital with […]
