Tickets are now on sale for The Captain John A MacLellan MBE Memorial Dinner and Recital Competition on Friday, August 26, 2022. The venue will be The Waldorf Astoria Caledonian Hotel, Edinburgh. The pipers who have kindly agreed to play are as follows:•Iain Speirs (3-time former winner)•Angus McColl (2019 […]
The Scottish Pipers’ Association Professional Contest takes place on Saturday coming, April 30, 2022. All events will be held at The National Piping Centre, McPhater Street. There will be a small admission charge for spectators. EVENTS 1 & 5 A/P/Open Piobaireachd & 6/8 March (Auditorium) Start time approx. 11.30Judges: Alan […]
Alastair Campbell, the former Downing Street Press Secretary and Official Spokesperson to Prime Minister Tony Blair, has made a plea for the Ukrainian national anthem to be played on the Highland pipes when Scotland’s national football team meets Ukraine. The game will take place at Hampden Park on June 1 […]
By TIM CUMMINGS Piping Today #81, 2016. In the previous round of this Theory Top-Up series, we began to look at familiar tunes whose original melodies spanned beyond the nine-note range of the standard Scottish pipe chanter. The word ‘compression’ was introduced as a way of describing the process of […]
PHOTO OF THE WEEK: The PPBSO’s Board of Directors have approved the creation of perpetual trophies for their overall season winners, their “Championship Supreme” prize. The first trophy has been created, “The William Livingstone” claret jug, for the overall season-long champion in the performance of professional piobaireachd. Bill is pictured […]
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 […]
1977 BY JEANNIE CAMPBELL MBE Competitors in the Northern Meeting Clasp Competition and the Argyllshire Gathering Open Piobaireachd competition in 1977 were required to select and submit four from the following list of six tunes: Sobieski’s Salute, The Stewarts’ White Banner, Mary’s Praise, The MacDonalds’ Salute (the tune Fannet would […]
GREY’S NOTES by Michael Grey. Piping Today #74, 2015. My Dad always said that life moves forward at a pace in tandem with a person’s age. So when you’re 10, life seems to move along at a grindingly slow 10mph. At 10 a kid feels like it’ll take forever for […]
A piping pedigree from Boghall & Bathgate Pipe Band, The National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland and a BMus Trad Music – Piping degree from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, have combined to give Ross Miller a very busy musical working life as normality returns to the world. He has […]
THE ROKE CD Review by Stuart Milne. Piping Today #100, 2020. Ross Miller is a great example of what it means to be a modern piper. As Ross explains in the sleeve notes to his debut solo album, The Roke, his early musical background was purely in pipe bands (formerly Peoples […]
