The Lochaber Piping Society Annual Piping Competition for youths, 18 years of age and under, will be held on Saturday, March 26 in Fort William. Entry forms to be returned by Friday, March 18 can be downloaded here. Competition organiser, Kenneth Cameron said: “Our 2020 competition was cancelled right at […]
Pipe Major Iain Grant of Barrhead & District Pipe Band is seeking pipers for Grade 4b. If you have played Grade 3, Grade 4 or Juvenile and are now looking to get back into competing again (along with other events), then please email Iain. The band practice on Tuesdays and […]
Piper Eve Muirhead has won the gold medal – but not at Oban or Inverness. The talented player, who launched the Piping Live! programme in 2010, triumphed in the Beijing Winter Olympics as skip of the women’s Team GB curling team. Congratulations!
The National Piping Centre’s Junior Competition was held today, Saturday, February 19, live and in person. It was fantastic to hear the building ringing and alive with music again. Thank you to all competitors for their attendance and congratulations to the winners. OVERALL WINNERSChanter Champion: Sam de VriesU15 Novice Champion: […]
With some normality on the horizon for the pipe band world, Grade 1 Lomond and Clyde Pipe Band are looking for experienced or aspirational players to strengthen all sections of the band. Their practices are now in full swing in Glasgow on Tuesday and Thursday evenings. Their snare section practice […]
The green shoots of covid recovery are emerging with the Cowal Gathering announcing on February 14 that it will return to Dunoon Stadium in 2022. This follows on from the welcome announcements from the RSPBA and PPBSO over the past few weeks that planning is well underway for a full […]
The Bagpipe Shop, based within The National Piping Centre, is looking to recruit a new assistant. They are looking for someone dynamic and friendly to join a small team to assist the current staff in the day to day running of the retail operation. This is an exciting opportunity to […]
Where are you from and how did you get into piping?I live in Austria, in a village called Zurndorf. Before I started on the pipes, my brother already played the snare drum and one of his friends was playing the pipes. When I was 19 years old, they just decided […]
Piper, multi-instrumentalist and composer Kenneth I MacKenzie released Glendrian, his Scottish traditional music album yesterday, February 11, 2022. The album’s title track is played on Highland pipes and takes its name from a depopulated settlement in Ardnamurchan – a peninsula in Lochaber and area with family connections for Kenny. Elsewhere, […]
Brìghde Chaimbeul and Ross Ainslie launched an Indiegogo fundraising campaign for their new recording project this week. Within only two days of the February 9 start date, it has already achieved over £5000 of their £10,000 target. The link to the project is here The recording is focusing on double […]
