The Dunvegan Medal took place today Tuesday, August 2, in the Skye Gathering Hall, Portree. The results were as follows: The Dunvegan Medal James MacKenzie Darach Urquhart Greig Canning Steven Leask Andrea Boyd Hornpipe and Jig Callum Beaumont Finlay Cameron Derek Midgley Roddy MacLeod Gordon McCready March Finlay Cameron Willie […]
In one week’s time Piping Live! will be well underway, and Tuesday’s programme of events is extensive and offers something to suit the taste of every piper. If you are able to spend the day in Glasgow you can fill your Tuesday with bagpipes from 9.30am and keep going into […]
St Columba’s School, Kilmacolm, invites applications from enthusiastic and committed teachers of Bagpipes to work as the second piping instructor with the School’s highly popular Piping and Drumming Programme. Applicants will require a minimum qualification of a Diploma in a recognised music course or an equivalent piping qualification. The successful candidate […]
The Scottish Pipe Band Championships were held today, Saturday July 30, at Levengrove Park in Dumbarton. The weather was overcast but warmish with occasional periods of sunshine. There was a new layout of the fields, and it didn’t feel like an improvement as it lost the iconic backdrop of the […]
The National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland are launching a new trainee tutor programme aimed at young people aged 18-25. This structured training and work experience would be targeted towards recent music graduates, current music students or those with a strong foundation in music and ability to play and an […]
Less than two weeks to go to Piping Live! and The National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland are preparing to present their concert titled Emerging Composers: 20 Years Young in the City Halls on the first evening of the festival, Monday, August 8 at 7.30pm. Ten new pieces that have […]
The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Pipe Music Collection volume 1 was launched at Piping Live! in 2017. The tune book has been such a success, that it has allowed Volume 2 to be compiled using many of the high quality, unpublished tunes that could not been included in the first […]
The Dunvegan Medal will take place next week on Tuesday, August 2, and Piping Convenor Cameron MacFadyen told bagpipe.news that the competition has attracted a bumper entry of 26 competitors. The competition will take place in the Skye Gathering Hall, Portree, and starts at 8.30am. The list of Dunvegan Medal […]
Braemar Junior Games was held on Saturday, July 23. It is the “young” version of possibly the world’s best known Highland Gathering. Held in the same King George V Park, it really puts the fun into the games, surely meeting the organiser’s aim of giving the next generation a taste […]
The 71st Ulster Pipe Band Championships took place today, July 23, 2022 at Ballymena Academy. The results were as follows: Grade 4B Best Drum Corps – Syerla & District Syerla & District McDonald Academy Hollymount Altnaveigh Memorial Grade 4A Best Drum Corps – Kildoag Kildoag Cloughfin William Kerr Memorial Raphoe Ulster-Scots Grade […]
