These photos are some of the pipers from the Duncan Johnstone Memorial C Grade Jig competition in The National Piping Centre Auditorium on Saturday, March 23, 2024. Kyle Shead won the C Grade Jig, taking home the The Roddy MacLeod Trophy for Jig Playing. The full result of the C Grade […]
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Happy International Bagpipe Day from Glasgow!
To mark International Bagpipe Day 2024 we look back at highlights from Glasgow’s International Piping Festival – Piping Live! – in 2022 and 2023. If you are piping anywhere in the world today, record your performance and tag @bagpipenews in your social media to let us see how you are […]
Photo of the month: Michael Grey at Ardrossan Castle
Information about Ardrossan Castle can be found on the North Ayrshire Heritage website here.
Photo of the month: Callum Wynd in the SPA Professional Competition 2023
Pipe Band retro pictorial: Scottish Pipe Band Championships 2012
It’s Hogmanay 2022, and this evening we look back ten years to photos from the Scottish Pipe Band Championships at Dumbarton on May 19, 2012. Field Marshal Montgomery won Grade 1, followed by ScottishPower, Inveraray, Strathclyde Police, St Laurence O’Toole and Boghall and Bathgate Caledonia. Glasgow Skye won Grade 2, […]
Faces from the SPA Former Winners’ MSR
PHOTO OF THE WEEK: John Dew was the winner of the Scottish Pipers’ Association Former Winners’ MSR in The National Piping Centre Auditorium on Saturday, April 30, 2022. The other competitors were: William Geddes, Calum Brown, Darach Urquhart, Ben Duncan, Steven Leask and are all pictured below. The results were:1. […]
The William Livingstone claret jug for professional piobaireachd
PHOTO OF THE WEEK: The PPBSO’s Board of Directors have approved the creation of perpetual trophies for their overall season winners, their “Championship Supreme” prize. The first trophy has been created, “The William Livingstone” claret jug, for the overall season-long champion in the performance of professional piobaireachd. Bill is pictured […]
Robert Malcolm Memorial Pipe Band on Buchanan Street at Piping Live! 2017
PHOTO OF THE WEEK: A ball-juggling street entertainer captured the attention of the Robert Malcolm Memorial Pipe Band before their Buchanan Street performance at Piping Live! in 2017.
Ticker tape celebrations for Field Marshal Montgomery in 2011
PHOTO OF THE WEEK: Kyle Warren and Field Marshal Montgomery celebrate their win at the World Pipe Band Championships in 2011. This win was part of a Grand Slam, with the band winning every major championship that season. Kyle recently launched a Crowdfunder campaign for his recording projects in 2022, […]
St Laurence O’Toole drum up success in the rain
PHOTO OF THE WEEK: Stephen Creighton leads the St Laurence O’Toole drum corps at the Scottish Pipe Band Championships on May 21, 2011. The band placed first in drumming and second overall.