•Brìghde Chaimbeul, Ross Ainslie & Steven Byrnes ast Piping Live! 2022. Photo: JohnSlavin@designfolk.com/Bagpipe.news Highlighting concerts at Celtic Connections 2023 featuring bagpipes or piping-related music. The Celtic Connection website says about the Brìghde, Ross and Steve playing as a trio: "Brìghde Chaimbeul and Ross Ainslie started working on music around 4 years ago focusing on double […]
• David Shedden piping with Assynt at Piping Live! 2016. Photo: JohnSlavin@designfolk.com/Bagpipe.news Highlighting concerts at Celtic Connections 2023 featuring bagpipes or piping-related music. The Celtic Connection website says about the concert: “Glasgow based folk trio Assynt are former BBC Radio Scotland Young Musician of the Year finalists, Graham Mackenzie (fiddle) and David Shedden (pipes/whistles) alongside […]
•The weekly Trad in the Tryst music session pictured. Photo: JohnSlavin@designfolk.com/Bagpipe.news The National Piping Centre will be running The Pipers’ Tryst Sessions – four days of workshops, group lessons and sessions during the Celtic Connections festival from Thursday 26 - Sunday 29 January 2023. Taught by pipers in the folk scene, this event will focus […]
•Fred Morrison at Piping Live! 2022. Photo: JohnSlavin@designfolk.com/Bagpipe.news
•Malin Lewis playing in the Two Octaves concert at Celtic Connections 2020. Photo: JohnSlavin@designfolk.com/Bagpipe.news Highlighting concerts at Celtic Connections 2023 featuring bagpipes or piping-related music. The Celtic Connection website says about the concert: "Malin Lewis is an award-winning piper, fiddler, composer and instrument-maker from Ardnamurchan and Skye. They marry deep traditional roots with adventurous innovation […]
John Dew and Calum Brown will compete in the first semi-final of the Scots Guards Club Knockout competition on Sunday, January 29, with a 4pm start. Tickets are £5, pay at the door. Pies on sale at half time. The pipers will play 30 minutes of music each, and the audience votes for the winner. […]
•Allan MacDonald and Finlay MacDonald playing at Piping Live! 2022. Photo: JohnSlavin@designfolk.com/Bagpipe.news Highlighting concerts at Celtic Connections 2023 featuring bagpipes or piping-related music. The Celtic Connection website says about the concert: "Piping legend Allan MacDonald brings a lifetime of musical mastery to Celtic Connections 2023. A leading light in the Gaelic musical scene, Allan MacDonald […]
•The Peatbog Faeries at Celtic Connections in 2014. Photo: JohnSlavin@designfolk.com/Bagpipe.news Highlighting concerts at Celtic Connections 2023 featuring bagpipes or piping-related music. The Celtic Connection website says about the concert: "Peatbog Faeries, present a rip-roaring display of musical wizardry with their fiddles, bagpipes, whistles, drums, guitars, sax, keyboard and vocals. Having thrilled audiences worldwide, collecting jazz, […]
https://bagpipe.news/2023/01/20/memorial-challenge-cup-in-honour-of-skye-k-richendrfer/ MWBPA Rules updated for 2023 The MWPBA contest rules have been updated for season 2023, and you will find it on the MWPBA home page under "THE ASSOCIATION". All MWPBA members are expected to be familiar with the contents for their disciplines.As announced at the AGM, for 2023 there have been changes for solo piping […]
•The National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland on stage in the main auditorium of the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall in 2014. Photo: JohnSlavin@designfolk.com/Bagpipe.news Highlighting concerts at Celtic Connections 2023 featuring bagpipes or piping-related music. The Celtic Connection website says about this concert: “A highlight of the winter season for pipe bands, the Annual Pipe Band […]
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