By MICHAEL GREY. Let’s get this over with at the start – the boiler plate line from almost any positive review of a book that lands in the orbit of the piping world: the “new edition” of William Donaldson’s Pipers: A Guide to the Players and Music of The Great […]
The Captain John A. MacLellan MBE Solo Piping Competition was held on Saturday, October 1, at the Army School of Bagpipe Music and Highland Drumming at Inchdrewer House, Edinburgh. Iain Speirs was the overall winner of the Premier Grade, Sarah Muir won the A Grade Piobaireachd and was the A […]
The City of Sheffield Pipe Band is hosting a masterclass with Neil Clark of Falkirk Piping in Sheffield on Friday, October 14 from 7-9pm. There are five places available in the masterclass, and if you would like one of the places please email a short biography and recent audio recording to mail@dabmusic.online. […]
Willie McCallum is the special guest on this week’s episode of The Piping Show. John Mulhearn interviews Willie and asks for his thoughts on the big competitions in Oban, Inverness and at Blair Castle. Willie talks about his family connections with these competitions, what they mean to him, what motivates […]
The United States National World War 1 Museum in Kansas City, MO – www.theworldwar.org – is in search of a set of vintage bagpipes that have WWI provenance, being used, played, or owned by someone who fought in that war. The pipes will be added to the museum’s permanent collection […]
The National Piping Centre’s successful new workshop and teaching week for young pipers, the Junior Gathering, returns during the October school holidays from Monday 17 to Thursday 20. This Autumn Junior Gathering will be held at the NPC’s Otago Street venue in Glasgow’s West End, and features a wide range […]
Harmony Writing Part One. By TIM CUMMINGS Piping Today #85, 2017. We have, in this Theory Top-Up series, covered a range of topics related to the music of Scottish-style bagpipes (among other bagpipes and non-bagpipes). We have examined practically every major, minor and modal key used in our repertoire, and […]
On Saturday, September 24, the Ottawa Branch of the Pipers’ and Pipe Band Society of Ontario held the Glengarry Cup. This event marked the first in person event for the association since February 2020 and drew a crowd of almost 100, filling the room at the Army Officers’ Mess, in […]
The Lowland & Border Pipers’ Society (LBPS) will hold its annual conference in Perth next month. Members and non-members are welcome. It will be the first time the 40-year-old piping organisation has held such an event outwith the central belt or the Scottish Borders. The date of the event is […]
Professor Joshua Dickson is the head of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland’s traditional music programme, and talks to Dr Andrew Bova about events for the upcoming academic year at the RCS, including the wide range covered in the BMus Traditional Music: Piping degree. A large part of the discussion is […]
