Renfrew’s Robertson Park will welcome pipe bands to the Royal Burgh this month on Saturday, July 23. Bands and Drum Majors who wish to attend the event need to have their applications with the contest secretary by tomorrow, Saturday, July 9. The application form can be downloaded here. Renfrew is […]
The Royal National Mòd, Gaeldom’s premiere musical and cultural event, returns to the fair city of Perth this year between October 14 – 22, for the first time in 18 years. Senior piping competitions at this year’s Royal National Mòd will be graded for the first time, replacing the former […]
by ALLAN J. MacKENZIE The Mallaig and Morar Highland Games, set by the Silver Sands of Morar, makes its return for the 2022 season on Sunday, August 7 this year. Lovat Field in Morar will again host a full slate of piping, Highland dancing, heavy events and track and field for […]
The Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association Northern Ireland Branch (RSPBANI) and Mid & East Antrim Borough Council have launched the 71st Ulster Pipe Band Championships and Highland Dancing contest for 2022. The event will take place on Saturday, July 23, from 10am. The venue will be Ballymena Academy, which played host to […]
Father James McTavish, 53, is a catholic priest working for Verbum Dei Missionary Community in Rome, and he has recently completed the Italian Spring School where he came face-to-face with piping tutors for his first time ever. The story of what got him to that stage is unique, and it’s […]
The All Ireland Pipe Band Championships took place today, July 2, in New Ross, Co. Wexford. Junior Drum Majors Carys Graham Mia Buckley Juvenile Drum Majors Kathy Hunter Louis Anderson Louise Smiton Ben Dickson Charlotte Ruddock Senior Drum Majors Kara Gilmour Emma Barr Jamie Cupples Jason Price Andrea Gibson Grade […]
The Caledonian Piping Club in Saltcoats, Ayrshire, have been running the Festival of Juvenile Solo Piping each October since 2003. The competition was established as a tribute to the Club’s co-founder, Colin McCallum, who died in October of 2002. This year would have been the 20th competition if Covid-19 had not forced […]
The Ceres Highland Games took place in the Kingdom of Fife yesterday, June 25. While most of the piping world would have been focussed on the European Pipe Band Championships in Inverness, solo pipers travelled to Ceres to play in the piping competitions. The weather was sunny all day, apart […]
The third major pipe band championships of 2022 took place today, Saturday, June 25, at Bught Park, Inverness. Kilbarchan Pipe Band in Grade 4B, led by Pipe Major Brian Knight, won their third major competition in a row, so 2022 is shaping up to be a very successful season for […]
It’s back. It’s live. It’s the best pipe bands in the world competing for glory. It doesn’t get bigger than this. Thousands of pipers and drummers are expected to head for Glasgow Green on Friday 12th and Saturday 13th August as the World Pipe Band Championships return after a 2 […]
