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 […]
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Faces from the Masters Solo Piping Competition 2023
Four weeks ago, on Monday, August 14 at Piping Live! 2023, the Masters Solo Piping Competition was in full swing in The National Piping Centre Auditorium. The piobaireachd event was held throughout the day with 20 competitors and was won by Bruce Gandy, which gave him the overall Masters title for 2023 […]
Pipe Major Iain McLeod and the Edinburgh City Police Pipe Band
In 2016 Greentrax Recordings released an album called Edinburgh City Police Pipe Band – Revisited [CDTRAX389]. The tracks were chosen by Pipe Major Iain McLeod as his favourite tunes the band recorded during their heyday. Shortly before the release Andrew Bova visited Iain to conduct an interview for Piping Today […]
Faces from the Duncan Johnstone 2023
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 11, 2023. Calum Dunbar won the C Grade Jig, taking home the The Roddy MacLeod Trophy for Jig Playing. The full result of the C Grade […]
Faces from The National Piping Centre U18 MSR and Jig competitions
The National Piping Centre Junior competition was held on February 18 in both of the NPC venues. The final event of the afternoon was the U18 MSR and Jig competitions, and the photos below are taken from competitor 17, Katie Robertson, through to the last competitor in the event. Both […]
Photos from Celtic Connections Pipe Band Concert 2023
One week ago, on February 4, the Annual Pipe Band Concert took place in Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. The concert was a tribute to the work of Pipe Major Ian Duncan, with the second half of the concert recreating the Vale of Atholl Names and Places album from 1990. The […]
Pipe Band retro pictorial: World Pipe Band Championships 2012
Happy New Year and all the best for 2023 to the piping community all over the World! Today we look back to photos from the World Pipe Band Championships at Glasgow Green on August 11, 2012. Field Marshal Montgomery won Grade 1, followed by ScottishPower, Simon Fraser University, Boghall and Bathgate […]
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, […]
Donald Drone’s wife puts straight his creative bent
Donald Drone is struggling to find the elusive wee hook to inspire his composing, and all he receives is barbed comments from his better half. Thanks to the cartoon creator, Iain Bell, for his work and permission to publish the cartoon.
Donal Drone’s wife should’ve gone to Specsavers
Donald Drone’s pipe maintenance session in the kitchen leads to some culinary confusion. Thanks to the cartoon creator, Iain Bell, for his work and permission to publish the cartoon.