Sandy Cameron and Christopher McLeish will compete in the third heat of the Scots Guards Club Knockout competition on Sunday, January 28, with a 4pm start. The pipers are required to perform a set lasting 30 minutes. The set needs to contain one March, Strathspey and Reel and the ground of a piobaireachd. An audience […]
Highlighting concerts at Celtic Connections 2024 featuring bagpipes or piping-related music. The Celtic Connection website says about the concert: "Three time winners of Scotland’s “Live Act of the Year” award, Skerryvore return to Celtic Connections energised by the release of their 7th studio album, Tempus. "With a heady mix of bagpipes, fiddles, accordions, and whistles, not to mention […]
•Leonard Barry playing at Piping Live! 2022. Photo: JohnSlavin@designfolk.com/Bagpipe.news Highlighting concerts at Celtic Connections 2024 featuring bagpipes or piping-related music. The Celtic Connection website says about the concert: "Uilleann piper Leonard Barry launches Littoral, his beautiful third solo album, ten years after the acclaimed New Road. The title reflects both Leonard's youth in the townland of Kilmoyley in North […]
•Carlos Núñez playing at Celtic Connections 2013. Photo: JohnSlavin@designfolk.com/Bagpipe.news Highlighting concerts at Celtic Connections 2024 featuring bagpipes or piping-related music. The Celtic Connection website says about the concert: "Carlos Nuñez is the poster boy of Galician music, but it's a title he has earned by both talent and hard work. With chops like on the local […]
•Falasgair Highlighting concerts at Celtic Connections 2024 featuring bagpipes or piping-related music. The Celtic Connection website says about the concert: "In this exciting performance at the Drygate Brewery, Kathryn Tickell & The Darkening explore the connecting threads of music, landscape and people over a period of almost 2,000 years. Named after the old Northumbrian word […]
BALMORAL WINTER WORKSHOP, FEB. 2-4, 2024 Instructors will be Robert Mathieson, Derek Midgley, and Andrew Carlisle Balmoral’s upcoming Winter Workshop will be a 3-day remote-learning session, held via Zoom. The cost is $275 USD. Students who refer new students to us will receive $50 off the price of the workshop for every new student referred. […]
Highlighting concerts at Celtic Connections 2024 featuring bagpipes or piping-related music. The Celtic Connection website says about the concert: "John Mulhearn is one of Highland piping's most singular voices, equally at home in the most traditional or experimental of contexts. His 2020 album, The Pipe Factory, released at the height of pandemic restrictions, is an […]
•Peoples Ford Boghall & Bathgate Caledonia Pipe Band celebrate their Grade 1 Worlds win in 2023. Photo: JohnSlavin@designfolk.com/Bagpipe.news Highlighting concerts at Celtic Connections 2024 featuring bagpipes or piping-related music. The Celtic Connection website says about the concert: "Peoples Ford Boghall & Bathgate Caledonia are the reigning RSPBA World Pipe Band Champions. One of the most […]
•Brìghde Chaimbeul playing at Piping Live! 2019. Photo: JohnSlavin@designfolk.com/Bagpipe.news Highlighting concerts at Celtic Connections 2024 featuring bagpipes or piping-related music. The Celtic Connection website says about the concert: "Brìghde Chaimbeul is a leading purveyor of experimental Celtic music and of the Scottish smallpipes; a bellows-powered set of bagpipes with a double-note drone. She has devised […]
The final of the BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the Year competition brings 6 of the country’s rising stars to the stage as they battle for this career-defining accolade. This year's finalists are: John Dew - Bagpipes (Perthshire) Calum McIlroy - Guitar, Mandolin & Voice (Aberdeenshire) Ruairidh Iain Gray - Voice (South Uist) […]
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