Piping Live! (and Glasgow) is really heating up this week as more and more familiar faces return to the festival and fill the Street Cafe and other venues with fantastic music, patter and laughs, and sample the craft beer on offer from Drygate Brewery. ScottishPower Pipe Band won the International […]
Callum Beaumont was the winner of the Masters Solo Piping Competition on Monday, August 8 at Piping Live! 2022, winning on a piobaireachd preference. The full results were: Piobaireachd Callum Beaumont, Lament for Patrick Og MacCrimmon Glenn Brown, Laird of Anapool’s Lament Alan Bevan, Cherede Darievea Ian K. MacDonald, Lament for Donald Ban MacCrimmon […]
Looking forward one week, to next Sunday morning, and at that point we will have experienced the full week of Piping Live! and the two days of World Pipe Band Championships. That is a nice thought, considering the world in which we all lived through since March 2020. The Piping […]
The Aboyne Highland Games took place yesterday, August 6, on The Green, Aboyne, Aberdeenshire. A chilly showery morning gave way to a warm afternoon attracting a crowd of about 12,000. Calum Brown from Cults, Aberdeen, was overall champion with firsts in March, Strathspey and Reel, Hornpipe and Jig and 5th […]
In two day’s time Piping Live! begins. If you are there for the full week, take a deep breath and strap yourself in for the ride. Monday’s schedule has everything including the kitchen sink: world class solo piping; seven hours of free music in the Piping Live! Street Cafe; an RSPBA drumming […]
A new digital start-up to foster artistic vigour and innovation in pibroch was launched yesterday, Friday, August 5 by the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. The Pibroch Network is a comprehensive online database that aims to make it easy for people to discover, learn, teach and research pibroch. Its vision is of […]
The Piping Live! Friday night concert in the Old Fruitmarket has got to be the most exciting programme of pipe-driven trad band performances to take the stage in the 18 years of the festival – or indeed, at any festival ever! The Gaelic piping living legend, Allan MacDonald, and his […]
Thursday at Piping Live! is always a very busy day and includes two of the festival’s flagship events: the Pipe Idol final and the Pipe Major Alasdair Gillies Memorial Recital Challenge. Tickets for both are always in great demand and sell out in advance. Both of those events are included […]
Finlay Johnston was awarded the 2022 Silver Chanter last night, August 3, 2022. This was the 56th year of the competition as it returned home to the Isle of Skye after a four year sojourn at The National Piping Centre in Glasgow. The venue was Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, the Gaelic […]
There is still space for a pipe band to perform at 3pm on Buchanan Street on Wednesday, August 10. So if you are in or around Glasgow for the week with your band and would like to get involved, please contact marketing@thepipingcentre.co.uk The Livestream Festival Pass gives access to another six […]
