You get together with a group of your pipe band friends for a ‘pipe band’ trivia night. First question: Which Grade 1 pipe band won the World Championship in 1955 at Stirling, but was disqualified for playing the wrong MSR? Shotts and Dykehead Caledonia is the correct answer, with John […]
It is Christmas morning here in Scotland. Everyone connected with Bagpipe.news and the National Piping Centre would like to wish you a Merry Christmas. We hope Santa has been good to you – but if he hasn’t been yet then we hope you’re about to get everything you wished for. […]
It’s Christmas Eve. On behalf of everyone at the National Piping Centre, we extend to all readers, contributors and advertisers our compliments of the season. Tomorrow, like Donald Drone here, our pipes will remain in the box for one day … but just the one day, mind.
An interesting collection of pipe tunes specifically set for duets of smallpipes and Border pipes has just been published. Airs for Piping Pairs has just been published by Matt Seattle, the well known Border piper from Hawick, Scotland. The book is pubilshed under his Dragonfly Music imprint. Matt is well […]
Youth music groups across Scotland have been awarded funding to support their safe return to teaching by the charity set up in memory of Manchester Arena victim, Eilidh MacLeod. Eight groups have been awarded financial support in recent weeks, specifically to help them return safely to in-person tuition, group lessons, […]
Scotland’s culture sector has been given £20 million of emergency funding. First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon announced the intervention as part of almost £100 million in Scottish Government relief for those sectors worst hit by the latest wave of the pandemic. Creative Scotland, the public body that supports the sector and […]
A museum specialising in bellows piping has been featured on a leading BBC radio programme. The Morpeth Chantry Bagpipe Museum, pictured, in the north east of England was featured in a segment on the BBC Radio 6 breakfast show. Presented by Lauren Laverne, the programme has been featuring some of […]
HRH The Prince of Wales, Duke of Rothesay, Patron of The National Piping Centre, has released this video message to all pipers and traditional musicians across the world:
Our post last Friday seeking information on Peter Sim, a Scottish piper and pipe maker who died in Aberdeen in 1915, has prompted a couple of leads. Peter may have had a son, Robert. Bob Mason, who lives in Arapahoe County, Colorado, tells us he was taught by Robert after […]
Western Isles piper, James Duncan MacKenzie, has published his first collection of pipe music. The 2019 Northern Meeting Silver Medallist’s book contains 70 new pieces. MacKenzie, from Lewis, started piping at the age of eight and was taught initially by Pipe Major Nick Gordon then the late Pipe Major Iain […]
