A record number entries were received in the latest video submission competition organised by the the National Piping Centre’s Competition League for Amateur Solo Pipers (CLASP). Results: Overall: Grade 1 – Trevor DeMass; Grade 2 – Hans Grothusen; Grade 3 – Alasdair Beaton. Grade 1Piobaireachd – 1. Charles David Mitchell (Massacre […]
This year’s Glasgow International Piping Festival – Piping Live! will go ahead from August 7-15. With the success of the reduced programme last year, this year will see the livestreaming and premiering of as many events as possible across the nine days of the festival. However, with the Scottish Government […]
Jock Duncan, a true Scottish legend in every sense of the word, died yesterday in Ninewells Hospital, Dundee. He was 95. Jock, one of Scotland’s finest traditional singers, was born on the farm of Gelliebrae by New Deer in rural Aberdeenshire and grew up in the farming life at a […]
Author, Richard H. Crawford from New York, USA has published a valuable record of the many pipers of Scottish and Irish regiments who were killed in the First World War. The book, Piper Casualties in the Great War, 1914-1918, is fascinating record, the result of a considerable amount of research. […]
A new event to celebrate the life and works of Duncan Johnstone, the influential piper, teacher and composer, took place in early March at the National Piping Centre (NPC) in Glasgow, Scotland. The event was recorded at the National Piping Centre in strict adherence to all Scottish Government social distancing […]
The RSPBA’s Music Board has eased the playing criteria for the two remaining championships for the 2021 season. The revision is as a result of ongoing COVID-19 situation and an appreciation that preparation time will be dramatically reduced to participate at these Championships – should they go ahead. The organisation […]
Since the first lockdown in March 2020, pipe band practices have been taking place online with a varying degree of regularity. We are aware of some bands meeting weekly, some monthly and some that have hardly met at all. With the COVID-19 situation in France evolving rapidly – a month-long […]
Today is World Poetry Day. It is a day first declared by UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) in 1999 and its purpose is to promote the reading, writing, publishing and teaching of poetry throughout the world. It was formerly marked in October but was moved to […]
After our post last week on Henry Forsyth, we received this interesting newspaper cutting. It is from the Daily Mirror and is dated February 14, 1913. The caption states: “By his own desire, the Prince of Wales is learning to play the bagpipes, and is making good progress with what […]
James Carnegie is the latest member of the Competition League for Amateur Solo Pipers (CLASP) to be profiled: • Where are you from and how did you get into piping?Edinburgh (although I now live in Cambridge). My uncle plays and from an early age I wanted to learn the pipes. […]
