Pipe Major John ‘Jock’ McLellan DCM’s 150th anniversary is being celebrated in 2025 and his hometown of Dunoon in Argyll is currently formulating plans for a major event. Jock’s music is so widely known in the piping community that pipers around the world may want to celebrate the man and […]
The Weekend Piping Club at The National Piping Centre is aimed at young learners, aged 6-17, and is a fantastic learning place for new players and those that already play. The new term begins this Saturday, January 13, and that is also the final day for booking the 2024 winter […]
Callum Beaumont and Finlay Johnston will play the next Stirling Piping recital in the King Robert Hotel, Bannockburn, Stirling. The event is on Friday, March 1, 7.30pm and tickets are £10 and available on the door. Both of the recitalists picked up big prizes towards the end of 2023 solo […]
Young pipers and drummers in Perthshire, Angus and Fife are preparing to compete in the first junior competition of the year. The Vale of Atholl Pipe Band’s annual competition will take place on Saturday, January 20 at Pitlochry High School. This will be the 48th year of the popular contest. […]
A large gathering of bagpipers and drummers from the Southern Hemisphere is taking place at the five-day long RNZPBA Annual Summer School in Christchurch from January 10-14, 2024. Over 150 students from 10 years old to 65 and above will spend part of their summer at St Andrew’s College in Christchurch, honing their […]
The Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association posted a press release yesterday, December 22, which indicates there has been some progress in finding solutions to replace three Major Championships. Each Major Championship is a highlight on the calendar for many pipers, drummers, families and friends, and surely a big part of […]
The Glasgow Highland Club’s Annual Competitions for schools’ pipe bands and individual pipers and drummers will take place at Hutchesons’ Grammar School, G41 4NW on Sunday, February 25, 2024. Entries are encouraged: this is a good opportunity to get school bands and individuals out on the boards in an encouraging […]
The Argyllshire Gathering and Northern Meeting have clarified and updated the procedures for entering the competitions in 2024. The Argyllshire Gathering will take place in Oban on August 21 and 22, 2024 and the entry forms can be found here – https://www.pipingcompetition.com/enter The Northern Meeting will take place in Inverness […]
Manawatu Scottish Pipe Band were the Grade 1 winners at the the Jenny Mair Square Day on Saturday, December 9, in Palmerston North, New Zealand. The band retain the title that they also won in 2022. Also in Grade 1, Invercargill and Auckland finished on 20 points in the combined […]
The third and final week of piping-related concerts at Celtic Connections are listed below and includes concerts with Carlos Núñez, Kathryn Tickell and Falasgair, Peoples Ford Boghall & Bathgate Caledonia Pipe Band, National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland, John Mulhearn, Brìghde Chaimbeul, John Dew in the final of the BBC […]
