By MARIO TOMASONE. Piping Today #54, 2011. The solemn and complex manoeuvres the troops made on the battlefields of the 18th and 19th centuries were almost inevitably done with pipers playing when Scottish units were involved. At the turn of the 20th century things changed quite dramatically. After some early […]
“Mind aw they adverts for animal shelters?The ones wi’ wee sad lookin’ dugs an’ that?That’s wit they pipes looked like whenah first clapped eyes on them” Dan Nevans, to anyone who would listen, February 2017 by Dan Nevans. Piping Today #86, 2017. Stop reading this article. You’re not ready. Take five […]
This article was published in Piping Today magazine in 2004 and featured a concert where all the pipes played in the concert were made by Hamish and Fin Moore. The concert was in Pitlochry Town Hall in 2003 which was recorded by Greentrax and released as an album called The Piper & […]
By GEORGE BALDEROSE, Executive Director and LESLIE CLARK, Associate Director The Balmoral School of Piping & Drumming The Seventeenth Annual Balmoral Classic organised by the Balmoral School of Piping and Drumming began on Saturday morning, November 4, 2023 with the US Junior Solo Junior Bagpiping Championship contests held at the […]
Ullapool and Gairloch pupils have been granted sets of pipes on loan from the Scottish Schools Pipes and Drums Trust. Twenty pupils at Ullapool and Gairloch High Schools and associated primary schools in Achiltibuie, Ullapool, Gairloch, Poolewe and Bualnaluib will benefit from the award. Piping Instructor Eddie Seaman comments: “We […]
Finlay Johnston was announced as the overall winner of the 83rd annual competition of the Scottish Piping Society of London on Saturday, November 4. Craig Muirhead was the A Grade overall winner, and Bradley Parker won the B Grade overall, and Arran Green was the overall Junior winner. Finlay’s win secures […]
Roddy MacLeod MBE was awarded the Bratach Gorm last night by the Scottish Piping Society of London, November 3, in the Caledonian Club in Belgravia. Roddy’s win means he is the second invitee to next year’s Glenfiddich Championships, joining last weeks Glenfiddich winner Callum Beaumont. Am Bratach Gorm (The Blue […]
The Archie Kenneth Quaich competition is on Saturday, February 24, 2024, at Royal Scottish Pipers’ Society, Edinburgh, starting at 9.30am. Entries and enquiries should be sent to: peter.mccalister@doctors.org.uk. Closing date is January 7, 2024. Competitors should submit two tunes with their entry. The tune selected by the judges will be given on […]
Finlay MacDonald presents the lovely 3/4 march, Pipe Major Angus MacDonald, and shares his experience of being taught by Pipe Major Angus back when The National Piping Centre was just about to open it’s doors for the first time. The videos of the tunes presented so far are all below, […]
Callum Beaumont reached the pinnacle of piping with his overall win of the Glenfiddich Championship 2023 on Saturday, and the win fulfils a prediction given to him after his first Gold Medal win in 2011. The article below is from Piping Today in 2011 where Callum talks about very successful […]
