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) […]
Edmonds comes to life with the sounds of Scotland during this wonderful February evening of colorful and exciting music and dance. You’ll hear piping, drumming and fiddling performed by recognised masters of the instruments. Whether you have just arrived in Seattle from Glasgow or you aren’t the least bit Scottish, this performance has something […]
Saturday 24th - Sunday 25th February 2024 | 10:30am – 1:00pm | Ulster University, York Street, BT15 1ED Alana MacInnes is a prominent Scottish piper and traditional musician hailing from South Uist, an island in the Outer Hebrides. Playing from a young age, she has become a well-known performer and teacher in the traditional music scene, […]
The Belfast Tradfest Solo Piping Competition will see a selection of Ireland’s top Pipers compete for a place in the renowned MacCrimmon Trophy Competition 2024 that takes place annually as part of the Interceltique Festival de Lorient. Recent winners of the MacCrimmon Trophy competition include Andrew Carlisle (Ballygowan) and Robert Watt (Maghera). Each competitor will […]
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 piping calendar. Callum won the […]
Join Routes String Quartet as they debut their new film, and then will perform live at The National Piping Centre. "Routes: Concept, Creation & Capture" is a film by Paul Jennings that follows the unique creative process of Scotland’s Trad. String Quartet, The Routes Quartet as they create, develop and record their recent release, ‘Arche’ […]
The International Bagpipe Organisation warmly invites you to attend the Seventh International Bagpipe Conference (IBC) to mark International Bagpipe Day 2024 (10 March), a celebration of the world’s diverse bagpipes and bagpiping traditions. This year’s conference is organised in collaboration with the Bulgarian National Bagpipe Association and the Academy of Music, Dance, and Fine Art in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. We have […]
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