By Wilson Brown • May 25-28, 2023. Despite cancelled flights, delayed flight arrivals, severe floods, lost baggage (Bologna), lost baggage again (Glasgow), the 2023 Italian Spring School proved to be a huge success. This year’s school was held in Misano Adriatico, a small seaside town near to Rimini on the […]
Jeannie Campbell MBE will be well-known to bagpipe.news readers as the author of the History of the Argyllshire Gathering and Piping In London series. In 2021 Jeannie published a book titled, Pipe Bands, which was very popular and quickly sold out. Jeannie has just informed bagpipe.news that the book has […]
Donald Drone makes the best of this glorious spell of weather we are having in Scotland and takes his family to the seaside. Thanks to the cartoon creator, Iain Bell, for his work and permission to publish the cartoon.
The World Amateur Champion of Champions Solo Piping Competition will be held on 27th April 2024 The Competition League for Amateur Solo Pipers (The CLASP) was set up by The National Piping Centre in 2003 to give adult amateur pipers a competition platform to compete on, through a series of […]
By Derek Doyle, Learning Development Officer The need for the Education Scotland inspection of The National Piping Centre was two-fold. First, in order to allow TNPC to recruit non-UK students for certificated programmes of more than six months, we are required to have educational oversight. So, it was the first hurdle […]
A study into the underrepresentation of women in Scotland’s piping and drumming scene has been launched by The National Piping Centre, in collaboration with the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Entitled Women in Piping and Drumming: Equality, Inclusivity, and Diversity, the six-month study is launching an online survey, designed to gain […]
There are only 24 hours left for Junior piping entries to the Carrick Lowland Gathering at Girvan, which which will be held on June 4 in the South Ayrshire town. The Juvenile Solo Piping Competition is organised by Girvan Attractions and the contest starts at 12 noon. Entries close on […]
A large entry competed today, May 28, on the grounds of Blair Castle for the annual Atholl Gathering, Scotland’s first major outdoor solo piping contest of the year. Roddy MacLeod was the Overall Winner and Junior Overall was Arran Green. The full results are as follows: P/A Piobaireachd B Piobaireachd […]
• PART 15 • BY JEANNIE CAMPBELL MBE. The Scottish Gathering 1899 In a reversal of the usual order, the 1899 Scottish Gathering was held on a wet Whit Monday, 22nd May at Stamford Bridge, and the report read: “Ten pipers entered the all-comers competition for bagpipe music piobaireachd. John […]
By MARGARET HOULIHAN. This was another well attended ‘Live Online’ CLASP competition. For Grade 1 CLASP competitors, there was one final chance to win an invite to compete at the inaugural amateur invitational competition at The Sun Belt in Florida in November this year. Eric Stein, who runs the Sun […]
