Brett Tidswell has sent the results from this year’s Australian Solo Piping Championships organised by the R. U. Brown Piobaireachd Society. The contest was held at the weekend at Scotch College, Adelaide, South Australia. The R. U. Brown Piobaireachd Society of South Australia was formed in memory of the legendary […]
Bobby Allen from North Lanarkshire maintained his excellent competitive form by winning the Under 18 piping competition at Kingdom Thistle at Lochgelly High School. Last weekend, the 14-year-old, who recently joined Shotts & Dykehead Caledonia, swept the boards at Kintyre Piping Society’s Junior competition. It was also a good day […]
Scott Wood playing at the Piping Live! Friday night concert in 2012
Today, we take a peek into The National Piping Centre’s ‘Noting the Tradition’ project. For readers unfamiliar with this project, it is an on-going venture which undertakes oral history interviews with those luminaries that have been involved in piping at all levels and all over Scotland in the past 50 […]
The Scottish Pipers’ Association’s (SPA) annual competition for professional pipers took place today. A good entry competed in the various grades across The National Piping Centre’s two campuses in Glasgow. The A Grade competitions took place at Otago Street while the B and C Grade competitions took place at McPhater […]
The results for the branch mini band, quartet and solo piping competition that took place last weekend at the University of Bedfordshire in Luton are: Mini BandsGrade 4 March – 1. Scunthorpe & District; 2. Grampian (Corby) Association; 3. City of Bristol; 4. Reading Scottish; 5. Stow Caledonian; 6. Glen […]
Connor Sinclair was the Pipe Idol winner at Piping Live! 2012. He is pictured here playing in the final which was then held in The National Piping Centre’s Auditorium.
The design of a commemorative sculpture in memory of 14-year-old Eilidh MacLeod, who died in the Manchester terrorist bombing two years ago, has been unveiled. As requested by Eilidh’s family, the bronze sculpture does not feature a likeness of the young piper form Barra but instead features a young female […]
Tuesday, April 16, marks the 273rd anniversary of the Battle of Culloden. At the site of the battle, four miles east of Inverness, the annual memorial service organised by the Gaelic Society of Inverness will take place tomorrow, Saturday, April 13, between 10:30 and 13:30. It is an event that […]
David Shedden at the Piping Live! Street Cafe in 2017. David plays in a trio with Graham Mackenzie (fiddle) and Innes White (guitar/mandolin) under the name Assynt. The band released their debut CD, Road to the North, and it was reviewed in Piping Today #93 in 2018.
