Visit The National Piping Centre and be welcomed by tunes by a first class bagpiper followed by a guided tour of the Museum of Piping and the chance to try out the pipes for yourself. Sessions Saturday 20th January 12pm Friday 26th January 12pm Friday 26th January 2pm Saturday 27th January 12pm Friday 2nd […]
If you are out late during Celtic Connections and wish to prolong your evening with drinks, or perhaps find space for a few session tunes, take yourself and your instruments and head to The Pipers’ Tryst, McPhater Street, Glasgow. The Piper’s Tryst bar at The National Piping Centre is open till 2am from Saturday, January 20 […]
•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) […]
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 […]