The SCOTS PGC College in Warwick, Queensland, Australia has a job opportunity for a ‘Pipe Band Master’. Sandy Dalziel has been the Pipe Master since 2005 and has taken the band to many local, national and international events and competitions, but there is room to grow the band further. The […]
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Study Abroad at The National Piping Centre on your travels to Scotland!
A semester of study here in Scotland at one of this country’s leading universities may offer a once in a lifetime academic experience. If you want to study piping, this could also give you a summer of piping, the chance to play in a Scottish pipe band, travel around Scotland […]
Piping in London: the 1905 to 1908 Highland Gatherings
• PART 17 • BY JEANNIE CAMPBELL MBE. The Highland Gathering 1905 On Whit Monday, June 12, 1905 the eleventh L.H.A.C. Highland Gathering took place at the new Stamford Bridge grounds with 6000 spectators. The weather was dull but the threatening showers kept off until the programme was almost completed. […]
Results from the Springbank Invitational Solo Piping Competition
The Springbank Invitational took place at the Argyll Arms Hotel, Campbeltown, Argyllshire, on Saturday, September 16, 2023. Fred Morrison was winner of the Piobaireachd competition and Stuart Liddell was the overall winner with a first place in the MSR and a second in the Piobaireachd. The full list of competitors […]
Considering tune selections for solo competitions
by Fergus Muirhead, at the Glenfiddich Piping Championship 2019 One of the biggest decisions a competitor has to make during his or her preparation for a competition is the tunes they are going to submit. In some events they have a free choice of music while in others they have […]
Michael Grey’s Notes: the best I ever played
GREY’S NOTES by Michael Grey. Piping Today #83, 2016. When I first starting competing in Scotland and going around the competitions, there was no shortage of fun to go along with the games. Like today, only it seems to me that then there were more eccentric, larger-than-life types around the […]
Theory Top-Up: harmonies derived from hymns
Harmony Writing Part Eight. By TIM CUMMINGS. Piping Today #92, 2018. We have arrived at the eighth and last article on writing harmonies for pipe bands and other pipe ensembles — for the time being, at least. In the previous seven articles, we explored a progression of approaches to crafting […]
Faces from the Masters Solo Piping Competition 2023
Four weeks ago, on Monday, August 14 at Piping Live! 2023, the Masters Solo Piping Competition was in full swing in The National Piping Centre Auditorium. The piobaireachd event was held throughout the day with 20 competitors and was won by Bruce Gandy, which gave him the overall Masters title for 2023 […]
Super Piper saves the day on Glasgow Green!
Bagpipe News reporter investigates new footage of Donald Drone at Glasgow Green and reveals what really caused a delay for Grade 1 prizes at the Worlds this year!
Photo of the month: Michael Grey at Ardrossan Castle
Information about Ardrossan Castle can be found on the North Ayrshire Heritage website here.