The 50th Glenfiddich Piping Championship took place on October 28, 2023, and The National Piping Centre’s YouTube team were on hand to capture what goes on behind the scenes and make the event happen. We hear from some of the people that make the event happen including Helen Urquhart (Head […]
The RCS Piping Degree Showcase Concert takes place in The National Piping Centre Auditorium on Monday, December 4 at 7pm. 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. […]
Bagpipe.news reader, Mary Ann Macleod, recorded and uploaded videos from the Angus D. and Angus J. MacColl concert, which was organised by Lewis & Harris Piping Society on Friday, November 17. The Society organise the prestigious Donald MacLeod Invitational Solo Piping Competition which was won by Callum Beaumont in April […]
GREY’S NOTES by Michael Grey. November 2023. Going along to get along. You may know that I have landed unexpectedly and feet first in the land of pipe bands. Where, say, this past summer I was on the periphery – a listener, a judge, a toe-tapping outsider – this autumn […]
PART TWO • By JEANNIE CAMPBELL MBE The second Grand National Gathering was advertised for Thursday and Friday 5th and 6th August 1858, with prize money and medals to a larger amount than ever offered to be competed for in Scotland. Gentlemen and youths connected with the Highlands and members […]
By TIM CUMMINGS. Piping Today #95, 2019 I have been teaching private lessons on the pipes and other instruments for close to 30 years now. Those of you who have done any teaching for a decade or more can understand my experience that every student is unique, and brings a […]
Celtic Connections offers something for every piping taste, whether it be pipe bands, Scots trad music performers and bands playing Highland Pipes and bellows pipes, or performers from across European piping traditions. Twenty one Celtic Connections concerts have been uploaded here on the bagpipe.news event calendar, starting on January 19 […]
The Pittsburgh Piping Society in conjunction with Carnegie Mellon University will host the second Jimmy McIntosh MBE Piobaireachd Workshop from February 9 to 11, 2024. The workshop will be held in the Cohon University Center at Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213. Instructors will be Mike Cusack, Amy Garson […]
The Lewis & Harris Piping Society continue their 2023 recital series this Friday, November 17, with father and son, Angus D. and Angus J. MacColl. The recital takes place at the Caladh Inn, which is a short walk from Stornoway town centre. The Society organise the prestigious Donald MacLeod Invitational Solo […]
PART ONE • By JEANNIE CAMPBELL MBE The Glasgow Celtic Society was constituted on 5th February 1857 with a membership of 527. The objects were the preservation of the language, literature, music, poetry, antiquities, and athletic games of the Highlanders of Scotland, the encouragement of the more general use of […]
