PART 1 by JEANNIE CAMPBELL MBE The stories of Queen Victoria’s pipers are well known and there is no need to repeat them here, but there were several more pipers, perhaps less well known, who were employed by other members of Queen Victoria’s family. The young queen’s visit to Taymouth […]
Donald WG Lindsay will be a familiar name to many readers of bagpipe.news from his blogs written from Ascension Island, to previous readers of Piping Today magazine, and to members of the Lowland and Borders’ Piping Society where Donald was Convenor and an active member before leaving on his travels […]
by BILL LIVINGSTONE. Piping Today #100, 2020. The ability to compose music, any music, for the bagpipe or otherwise is a peculiar talent and very difficult to describe or define. We know what the results of the effort are, but not much is known about the process itself. Everyone has […]
Drum Majors Adult – Banchory Business Association Salver Michael Leitch1. Portlethen Dist2. Graham Wilson – Penicuik & Dist3. Tracy Deans – Grampian District Grade 4B – NOS RSPBA Cup1. Bucksburn & District NJ2. North of Scotland Branch Cup Fraserburgh RBL3. Lathallan Challenge Trophy (Cup) Oldmeldrum RBL4. Robert Gordon’s College NJ […]
by DAN NEVANS • Piping Today #92, 2018 Being in a pipe band can be a real labour of love. You’ll know of people who seem to live for the band. They are at every practice, they are on the committee and take an interest in the running of the […]
1888 – 1891 by JEANNIE CAMPBELL MBE The 1888 gathering was held earlier than in previous years, reverting to its earlier date, Whit Monday, May 21 but the venue at Stamford Bridge was the same and the gathering was favoured with glorious sunshine and a large attendance. Among those present […]
In the final ever edition of the Piping Today magazine published in May 2020, a wide range of people were asked to give their 2020 vision for piping going forward. They were all sent a list of questions and asked to choose one to answer in no more than 200 […]
by MAJOR BRUCE W MacDONALD, Ret’d On April 30, 2022, at the 2nd Annual Scottish Performing Arts Classic, Ian K. MacDonald of Toronto, won the inaugural Joseph MacDonald Memorial Prize for Piobaireachd playing The Lament for Patrick Og MacCrimmon. The Clan Donalds Land Trust is the sponsor of the event […]
As part of Scotland on Tour, the exciting initiative to support the recovery of Scotland’s live music industry, the up-and-coming folk group Eabhal will launch their new album Aisling at The National Piping Centre, Glasgow on Friday, May 20. Eabhal formed as a band while all five members were based […]
Young musicians across Scotland are set to benefit from a special £50,000 funding scheme to commemorate five years since the loss of 14-year-old piper Eilidh MacLeod from Barra in the Manchester Arena attack. The Eilidh MacLeod Memorial Trust has opened its largest ever small grants scheme to support young musicians […]
