Weekly traditional music sessions begin this evening, Tuesday, October 18, from 6-9pm in The Pipers’ Tryst at The National Piping Centre. From next week, on October 24, they move to a regular Monday night session from 6-9pm, and are also planned for Monday, October 31 and November 7. Check on […]
The Lochnell Intermediate Youth Championship will be held this Saturday, October 22, at the chapel in Lochnell Castle with the kind permission of the Earl of Dundonald and hosted by his son Lord Archie Cochrane. The Championship will bring together seven of Scotland’s finest Intermediate players under the age of […]
The Pipers’ & Pipe Band Society of Ontario has announced a new bursary for solo piping. The Lillian Livingstone Solo Amateur Piobaireachd Bursary will be awarded annually to the winner of the Championship Supreme award for senior amateur piobaireachd. The winner will receive $3000 to allow for travel and other […]
The junior and adult solo piping competitions at The Royal National Mòd are taking place in Perth today, Saturday, October 15. Organisers An Comunn Gàidhealach partnered with The Competing Pipers Association, The Army School of Bagpipe Music and Highland Drumming and the Gordon Duncan Memorial Trust to support its piping competitions […]
Roddy Weir, ex-Pipe Major of the Royal Highland Fusiliers, and former member of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards plus Grade 1 civilian bands, has been appointed as the lead tutor of the Vale of Atholl Pipe Band. In addition, the Fife-based piping instructor takes over from Gary Nimmo as Pipe […]
The Midwest Highlands Arts Fund (MHAF) Board of Directors announces the 20th anniversary of Winter Storm – The Pipes and Drums Event in Kansas City, Missouri, to be held January 11 – 15, 2023. Registration for the 2023 Workshop and the Piping and Drumming Competitions is now open and online here. […]
By JOHN SLAVIN. David Colvin’s critically acclaimed and award-winning play about Gordon Duncan, Thunderstruck, returns to The National Piping Centre on Thursday and Friday of this week, October 13 and 14 with tickets available here. I was lucky enough to be there when it first came to Glasgow at Piping […]
The Celtic Connections programme for 2023 has been announced today and pipers will be keen to hear that the Annual Pipe Band Concert makes a return on Saturday, February 4, with the usual early afternoon 12.30pm start. “A unique opportunity to hear classics of the Pipe Band repertoire played many […]
Iain Bell is a piper, composer, tune book publisher and the creator of the Donald Drone cartoon series that was a well-loved feature of the Piping Times magazine. His tune writing emerged at the age 13, after he had experienced a few years in a pipe band, but his serious […]
by DAVID S. FORSYTH, Principal Curator, Scottish History & Archaeology, National Museums Scotland. This article first appeared as part of the Canadian chapter in: Stuart Allan and David Forsyth, Common Cause: Commonwealth Scots and the Great War, published by NMS Enterprises, 2014, and republished in Piping Today magazine in 2016. […]
