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Pipe Major John McLellan DCM’s tribute website and TikTok page

Pipe Major John McLellan DCM’s tribute website and TikTok page

Pipe Major John ‘Jock’ McLellan DCM’s 150th anniversary is being celebrated in 2025 and his hometown of Dunoon in Argyll is currently formulating plans for a major event. Jock’s music is so widely known in the piping community that pipers around the world may want to celebrate the man and […]

Dan Nevans: steal this article…

Dan Nevans: steal this article…

by Dan Nevans. Piping Today #90, 2018. I feel like a lot of my articles are complaints. I sit here behind my laptop like some whingeing granny in the hairdressers, bleating on about how the world has changed and how uncomfortable I am with that concept. Because of the often cantankerous […]

•Callum Beaumont and Finlay Johnston at Piping Live! 2021. Photo: JohnSlavin @designfolk.com / Bagpipe.news

Callum Beaumont and Finlay Johnston to play at Stirling Piping Recital

Callum Beaumont and Finlay Johnston will play the next Stirling Piping recital in the King Robert Hotel, Bannockburn, Stirling. The event is on Friday, March 1, 7.30pm and tickets are £10 and available on the door. Both of the recitalists picked up big prizes towards the end of 2023 solo […]

Vale’s junior contest nears half a century

Vale’s junior contest nears half a century

Young pipers and drummers in Perthshire, Angus and Fife are preparing to compete in the first junior competition of the year. The Vale of Atholl Pipe Band’s annual competition will take place on Saturday, January 20 at Pitlochry High School. This will be the 48th year of the popular contest. […]

Pipe Band retro pictorial: World Pipe Band Championships 2013

Pipe Band retro pictorial: World Pipe Band Championships 2013

Happy New Year and all the best for 2024 to the piping community all over the World! Today we look back to photos from the World Pipe Band Championships at Glasgow Green in August 2013.  It was the first time the Worlds was held over two days, and there is a […]

Pipe Band retro pictorial: British Pipe Band Championships 2013

Pipe Band retro pictorial: British Pipe Band Championships 2013

It’s Hogmanay 2023, and this year will be fondly remembered by the guys and gals of Peoples Ford Boghall and Bathgate Pipe Band as they won their first ever Grade 1 Worlds, and it was a pleasure to be there and watch them celebrate with wild abandon. But for the […]