Return is a piece for four speaking voices, a string quartet, two pipers and two drummers. It’s an exploration into where long poem, ritual theatre and ceremony meet. It weaves together and layers up text, music and performance as a celebration of the wheel of the year, of emerging and receding, and the common ground of […]
Join the NPC Adult Gatherings in 2023 The National Piping Centre is bringing you a series of Adult Gatherings in 2023 for pipers aged 18+, which have been designed to give a fantastic social learning experience. This year we will be running in person workshops as well as online events. The dates for our 2023 […]
•Pierrick Monnier was the CLASP 'Live Online' Grade 3 overall winner in February 2022 The Grade 1 overall winner will qualify for The Champion of Champions CLASP competition in April 2024 This CLASP competition will run on Saturday 11th November 2023 via the platform, Zoom. The closing date for this competition is Sunday 22nd October […]
The other eight invites will go to the winners of: The Grade 1 events will take place on the morning of Saturday, November 11, 2023 at the Sheraton
Father and son piping recital with with Angus D. and Angus J. MacColl in the Caladh Inn, Stornoway, November 17, 7.30pm
The 27th Annual George Sherriff Memorial Invitational will held on on November 18 at St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church in Hamilton, Ontario. The adjudicators for this year’s competition will be Michael Grey, Margaret Houlihan and Willie McCallum. Our Master of Ceremonies for the day will be Peter Aumonier. The 6/8 March event will commence at 10am. The […]
The Ratae Pipe Band was formed in 2022 and are based in Leicester. They are planning a fundraising concert of solo piping with Stuart Samson and Ben Duncan on Saturday, November 18, in Syston, Leicester – see flyer below for details. The band are led by Pipe Major Bryon Brotherton MBE who is ex-Pipe Major […]
Nestled in the heart of Victoria's picturesque countryside, an hour and a half from Melbourne, Daylesford offers a warm and welcoming setting for this annual celebration, right in the heart of Victoria Park. This charming town, comes alive each year as the gathering takes center stage and showcases drum and pipebands in the morning street […]
This year's BMus Piping Degree Showcase concert will gather music from places across Scotland. Each year group has been assigned a locality of Scotland from which to draw their repertoire. Focusing on specific areas and their associated composers, challenges the students to research the links of music to the places of its origin, and delve […]
For pipe bands and solo piping. This is the second ‘unofficial’ major of the New Zealand pipe band season, and the first where all the Grade One bands compete against each other. The venue, Palmerston North Square is four acres of park in the centre of the city. It is always held on the second […]
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