REVIEW by PETER McCALISTER This year, for the first time, the annual competition held by the Lowland & Border Pipers’ Society (LBPS) was held in Linlithgow, at the historic Burgh Halls. This marvellous old building has been re-purposed with meeting rooms and a café – and the acoustics are superb. […]
Entries are now open for this year’s Atholl Gathering solo piping competitions. The entry form can be found here. The competitions are open to those graded A/P, B and C for ceòl mòr by the Competing Pipers’ Association. The Light Music is open. The Atholl Gathering will take place in […]
Entries for the Scottish Pipers’ Association Professional Contest close this coming Sunday afternoon, April 17. SPA President, Logan Tannock, would like to encourage any Premier/A Grade pipers who are thinking about entering to do so. The competition will be held in person on April 30 at both National Piping Centre […]
Pipe Major Emmett Conway of Shotts and Dykehead Caledonia Pipe Band, is presenting a special guest workshop at The National Piping Centre’s Spring Adult Gathering, April 25-28. Emmett’s workshop is in addition to the world class teaching line up of Wilson Brown, Connor Sinclair, Ailis Sutherland, Dr Andrew Bova, Dan […]
Pipe Bands on Buchanan Street are back for 2022, and Piping Live! is now taking applications. Until 2019, Piping Live! had a packed schedule of pipe bands from across the world performing on Buchanan Street as part of the festival programme, and for 2022 they are bringing it back. Bands […]
The Piobaireachd Society recommends the following for competitions in 2023: A. SENIOR COMPETITIONS A new approach to setting tunes for the senior competitions is recommended for a trial period of five years. The aim is to give competitors a wider choice of tunes while still ensuring exposure for the appropriate […]
PHOTO OF THE WEEK: A ball-juggling street entertainer captured the attention of the Robert Malcolm Memorial Pipe Band before their Buchanan Street performance at Piping Live! in 2017.
By TIM CUMMINGS Piping Today #80, 2016. Because there are only nine melodic notes available on a typical Scottish chanter, piping students become aware of the limitations of our instrument pretty early on in their piping careers. Inevitably, the moment arrives when they realise that the entirety of the Braveheart […]
The annual competition organised by the Lowland & Border Pipers’ Society (LBPS) took place yesterday, April 9 2022, in the historic Burgh Halls in the West Lothian town of Linlithgow. It was the first full in-person contest the LBPS had held since 2019 and it was open to members and […]
The Virginia Military Institute Music Department invites applications for a full-time Pipe Band Director and instructor beginning August 2022. The successful candidate will lead the VMI Pipes and Drums, an element of the VMI Regimental Band. Established in 1997, the VMI Pipes and Drums has grown to be the largest […]
