1. How are you these days?I’m pretty well. I didn’t think I’d be missing the business of university but with restrictions in place I’m going a little mad. Other than that, I’m grand. I spent four years studying on the BMus (Traditional Music – Piping) Degree course at the Royal […]
In Stuart Letford’s Glenfiddich essay that appeared here last Wednesday, he wrote: “The only person whose opinion I want to hear in a pandemic is that of a virologist not that of a pub owner or a football pundit, a plumber, an actor … or a piper.” It reminded piping […]
Young Scottish piper, Robbie MacIsaac, pictured, has invented a blowstick which he claims controls the level of moisture in pipe bags. Robbie is from Falkirk and is a member of ScottishPower Pipe Band’s pipe corps. He has been working on his system – called FLUX – for the past six […]
The distinct lack of piping activity this year has been reflected in the nominations to the 2020 Scots Trad Music Awards. There’s less than a handful of pipers among the acts nominated this year. Voting is open until midnight next Sunday (November 15). Ross Miller’s recording, The Roke is up […]
I don’t do drugs. Expanding the horizons of my consciousness with chemicals has never seemed as interesting as expanding my consciousness with more corporeal, external media. But, if I did want to smoke DMT or rub mushrooms on my temples until time becomes a visible substance, I’d do it to […]
By Margaret Dunn (of CLASP) Members of the CLASP (Competition League for Amateur Solo Pipers) last week uploaded their video entries to our Remote ‘Video Submission’ Competition. Judging by the large entry, it proved to be a popular contest among the membership. Due to the inevitable uncertainty surrounding the ongoing […]
The Great Highland Bagpipe (and its music) has long been embraced by people from all walks of life and cultures. Further evidence of this can be seen in the entries for this weekend’s online C Grade competition organised by the Scottish Piping Society of London. We understand that at least […]
The Pipe Major Donald MacLeod MBE Memorial Piping Competition, which was to take place behind closed doors at the National Piping Centre and broadcast online at a later date, has been cancelled due to the pandemic restrictions in place in Scotland’s Central Belt. The Lewis and Harris Piping Society had […]
The Governor Macquarie Memorial Pipe Band of New South Wales, Australia, is hosting an online competition for junior pipers. The competition is being ambitiously titled the ‘2020 Shepherd Challenge for Young Global Piper of the Year’ after the band secured headline sponsorship for the competition from R. T. Shepherd & […]
The Duncan Johnstone Memorial Piping Competition has taken place at the National Piping Centre for over 20 years. It is held in memory of the famous Glasgow piper dubbed the King of Jigs. As Angus J. MacLellan wrote in Duncan’s obituary that appeared in the January 1999 Piping Times, Duncan […]
