By JOHN SLAVIN. David Colvin’s critically acclaimed and award-winning play about Gordon Duncan, Thunderstruck, returns to The National Piping Centre on Thursday and Friday of this week, October 13 and 14 with tickets available here. I was lucky enough to be there when it first came to Glasgow at Piping […]
The Celtic Connections programme for 2023 has been announced today and pipers will be keen to hear that the Annual Pipe Band Concert makes a return on Saturday, February 4, with the usual early afternoon 12.30pm start. “A unique opportunity to hear classics of the Pipe Band repertoire played many […]
Finlay MacDonald is the Director of Piping at The National Piping Centre and comes from a family with strong piping connections. He grew up within a pipe band culture that involved his parents and many relations, and that led to playing smallpipes, playing in sessions and writing music at a […]
The 49th Glenfiddich Piping Championship will take place on Saturday, October 29, 2022. The event is held annually at Blair Castle in Blair Atholl, Perthshire, and is organised by The National Piping Centre and funded through the William Grant Foundation. The 2022 competitors have been chosen from the list of […]
The Captain John A. MacLellan MBE Solo Piping Competition was held on Saturday, October 1, at the Army School of Bagpipe Music and Highland Drumming at Inchdrewer House, Edinburgh. Iain Speirs was the overall winner of the Premier Grade, Sarah Muir won the A Grade Piobaireachd and was the A […]
The City of Sheffield Pipe Band is hosting a masterclass with Neil Clark of Falkirk Piping in Sheffield on Friday, October 14 from 7-9pm. There are five places available in the masterclass, and if you would like one of the places please email a short biography and recent audio recording to mail@dabmusic.online. […]
Willie McCallum is the special guest on this week’s episode of The Piping Show. John Mulhearn interviews Willie and asks for his thoughts on the big competitions in Oban, Inverness and at Blair Castle. Willie talks about his family connections with these competitions, what they mean to him, what motivates […]
The United States National World War 1 Museum in Kansas City, MO – www.theworldwar.org – is in search of a set of vintage bagpipes that have WWI provenance, being used, played, or owned by someone who fought in that war. The pipes will be added to the museum’s permanent collection […]
The National Piping Centre’s successful new workshop and teaching week for young pipers, the Junior Gathering, returns during the October school holidays from Monday 17 to Thursday 20. This Autumn Junior Gathering will be held at the NPC’s Otago Street venue in Glasgow’s West End, and features a wide range […]
On Saturday, September 24, the Ottawa Branch of the Pipers’ and Pipe Band Society of Ontario held the Glengarry Cup. This event marked the first in person event for the association since February 2020 and drew a crowd of almost 100, filling the room at the Army Officers’ Mess, in […]
