Bagpipe.news was contacted by Torquil Macleod with a request to help find a pipe chanter belonging to his father, Captain Norman Torquil Macleod of the Seaforth Highlanders. Torquil told us that his father obtained the chanter in 1919 when he was given the task to reform a new Scottish Army Pipe […]
by ALLAN J. MacKENZIE The Mallaig and Morar Highland Games, set by the Silver Sands of Morar, makes its return for the 2022 season on Sunday, August 7 this year. Lovat Field in Morar will again host a full slate of piping, Highland dancing, heavy events and track and field for […]
The Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association Northern Ireland Branch (RSPBANI) and Mid & East Antrim Borough Council have launched the 71st Ulster Pipe Band Championships and Highland Dancing contest for 2022. The event will take place on Saturday, July 23, from 10am. The venue will be Ballymena Academy, which played host to […]
Father James McTavish, 53, is a catholic priest working for Verbum Dei Missionary Community in Rome, and he has recently completed the Italian Spring School where he came face-to-face with piping tutors for his first time ever. The story of what got him to that stage is unique, and it’s […]
The All Ireland Pipe Band Championships took place today, July 2, in New Ross, Co. Wexford. Junior Drum Majors Carys Graham Mia Buckley Juvenile Drum Majors Kathy Hunter Louis Anderson Louise Smiton Ben Dickson Charlotte Ruddock Senior Drum Majors Kara Gilmour Emma Barr Jamie Cupples Jason Price Andrea Gibson Grade […]
The Caledonian Piping Club in Saltcoats, Ayrshire, have been running the Festival of Juvenile Solo Piping each October since 2003. The competition was established as a tribute to the Club’s co-founder, Colin McCallum, who died in October of 2002. This year would have been the 20th competition if Covid-19 had not forced […]
Review by Chris MacKenzie • Greentrax Recordings, CDTRAX411 The first fifty four seconds of Kyle Warren’s Relentless CD sets down a marker, that what follows will not be a gentle stroll through piping’s gently verdant pastures. Instead, it discombobulates you into thinking you have slipped Megadeath into the CD. Slowly […]
GREY’S NOTES by Michael Grey. Piping Today #72, 2014. If you want to make a fast million, forget trying to invent the perfect set of drones or never-fail chanter reed, like, say, a possible brand like the SkweelAway or, maybe, the NaySkirl 2000. If you’re looking for fast coin to […]
PART TWO by JEANNIE CAMPBELL MBE. Not long before the Royal visit the Edinburgh piping competition was held as usual at the Theatre Royal and was reported in the papers on August 3, 1822. The competition had been held on the previous Tuesday and was judged by 18 members of […]
Tak Tang is a CLASP competitor, but has had other passions in his life as well as piping. As you will read below, he combined both to take his pipes to the top of the Devil’s Tower in Wyoming. He is originally from Hong Kong, but now lives in the […]
