The Lowland & Border Pipers’ Society (LBPS) has launched a composing competition to mark its 40th anniversary. The winner will receive a cash prize of £400. The LBPS was founded in 1983 at the College of Piping in Glasgow with the twin aims of reviving the music and bagpipes of […]
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Treacherous Orchestra rock the Fruitmarket at Celtic Connections 2023
Last night, Saturday, January 21 the Treacherous Orchestra played to a packed audience in Glasgow’s Old Fruitmarket as part of Celtic Connections 2023. Their high energy show was driven by the Highland pipes of Ross Ainslie and Ali Hutton, and it got the crowd bouncing. There is plenty more pipes […]
Steven Blake discusses the NYPBS on the Piping Show
The Director of The National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland, Steven Blake, is interviewed by Dr Andrew Bova in the first Piping Show of 2023. Steven is also a member of trad band Rura, and brings a wealth of piping and performance experience from his time travelling and gigging with […]
Memorial Challenge Cup in honour of Skye K. Richendrfer
The Minnesota Piobaireachd Society is co-sponsoring a piobaireachd competition named in honour of Skye Richendrfer, who passed away on November 20, 2022. Skye, well known in the piping community in the Pacific Northwest and elsewhere, was a cofounder of the society, and a one time Pipe Major of the Macalester […]
Lorne MacDougall and Iain MacInnes discuss the CC23 pipe band concert
The preparations for the annual piping concert on February 4 are really cranking up with the various strands of musicians coming together in rehearsals. In the two youtube videos below, Lorne MacDougall and Iain MacInnes discuss the tribute to Pipe Major Ian Duncan, the significance of the Names and Places […]
Winter Storm concert free to view on Facebook
The Winter Storm weekend came to a conclusion on Saturday, January 14, with a spectacular concert line-up of top class piping and drumming performers. The concert programme lists them as: Alastair Lee; Roddy MacLeod; Callum Beaumont; Dollar Academy Pipe Band; Craig Muirhead; Matt MacIsaac; Stephen Creighton; Jake Jørgensen; Reid Maxwell; […]
See Treacherous Orchestra at CC23 on Saturday, January 21
The piping and music of Ross Ainslie and Ali Hutton needs no introduction as they have been around the Scottish music scene in multiple musical collaborations for well over a decade. Their Highland pipes and whistles are a big part of the Treacherous Orchestra powerhouse – a supergroup of musicians […]
See Project Smok at CC23 on Friday, January 20
Project Smok are a trio who push the boundaries of traditional music, and are led by the pipes and whistles of the 2020 BBC Young Traditional Musician of the Year, Ali Levack. The other two members are Ewan Baird on bodhran and Pablo Lafuente on guitars. Since their formation in […]
Results from the first in-person CLASP for 2023
The first CLASP in-person competition of the year took place today, January 14, at The National Piping Centre’s Otago Street venue in Glasgow’s west end. The full results were as follows: Overall Winners Grade 1 – Eddie BolandGrade 2 – Jamie GallagherGrade 3 – Grant Walker Grade 1 Piobaireachd March […]
Solo piping and drumming results from Winter Storm 2023
The Midwest Highland Arts Fund Winter Storm competitions came to a conclusion yesterday, Friday 13, and the results ceremony was live streamed on Facebook at 2.30am (GMT). The awards ceremony and piping and drumming competitions can watched again on The Piper’s Dojo facebook page here. You can find out more […]