The AnCrios Gréine Sun Belt Invitational competition took place on Saturday, November 12, 2022 in the Sheraton, Orlando, Florida. The competition was organised by Eric Stein, who previously organised the prestigious Metro Cup in New York from 2005 till 2020. The competitors were: Willie McCallum, Stuart Liddell, Bruce Gandy, Andrew […]
It’s mid-November, the 2022 pipe band season in the Northern Hemisphere is a distant memory and the solo piping season is all but done. It was very pleasant to read the news yesterday that a big entry is planned for next year’s New Zealand and South Pacific Pipe Band Championships, […]
Christchurch, New Zealand will play host to the biggest contest in the southern hemisphere since the beginning of the pandemic at the 2023 New Zealand and South Pacific Pipe Band Championships. Bands from across Australia and New Zealand will compete over two days in Christchurch on Friday 10th and Saturday […]
The thirty-first annual amateur piobaireachd competition for the Archie Kenneth Quaich will take place on Saturday, February 25, 2023. The venue is the rooms of the Royal Scottish Pipers Society, 127 Rose St North Lane, Edinburgh EH2 4BB, starting at 9.30 am. Entries and enquiries to: peter.mccalister@doctors.org.uk Competitors should […]
Edinburgh International Festival’s At Home digital programme, has launched a month-long series of exclusive music sessions of artists from the 2022 programme. Skye piper, Brìghde Chaimbeul, was chosen as one of the artists to be featured for audiences worldwide in these videos. Brìghde’s performance was released at 4pm today, November 10, […]
This week’s episode of The Piping Show sees Ailis Sutherland chat to Finlay MacDonald about her young piping tuition, playing in solo and band competition, winning the Worlds with Shotts and Dykehead Pipe Band and her musical pathway through higher education. Ailis now is an employee with The National Piping […]
GREY’S NOTES by Michael Grey. Piping Today #77, 2015. Yonge Street is one of the City of Toronto’s most important thoroughfares. It dissects the whole of the metropolitan area along north-south lines. From Lake Ontario north over 50 kilometers, Yonge covers a lot of diverse, sometimes gritty ground and on […]
On this dreary winter morning in Scotland, we look back 12 years to the photos and a review of a day filled with warm sunshine at Dumbarton for the Scottish Pipe Band Championships in 2010. There are more than 70 photos with lots of youngsters who will all be adults […]
The Scottish Piping Society of London have announced this evening that Bruce Gandy is the 2022 winner of the Bratach Gorm and Fred Morrison is the overall winner. The full results are as follows: An Bratach Gorm Bruce Gandy (The Unjust Incarceration) Iain Speirs (Colin Roy Mackenzie’s Lament) Alan Bevan […]
1895 – 1896 by JEANNIE CAMPBELL MBE In 1895 the Scottish Gathering at Stamford Bridge was on Saturday, June 29. There was a large crowd and reports stated that fortunately the weather was not quite so oppressive as it had been earlier in the week. The proceedings, which lasted as […]
