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Stuart Liddell recital in Braemar this week

Stuart Liddell recital in Braemar this week

An evening of pipe music performed by three times Glenfiddich Piping Champion will be held this Saturday, March 26, at the Braemar Highland Games Centre.  Stuart Liddell founder and Pipe Major of the Inverary & District Pipe Band is one of the world’s most gifted and exciting pipers, and is […]

Somerled MacDonald’s antique prize chanter

Somerled MacDonald’s antique prize chanter

Bagpipe.news was recently contacted by Clive Douglas after reading our article written by Alan Forbes on Royal Scottish Pipers’ Society, which can be found here. Clive spotted the name of Somerled MacDonald in the article, and he thought he should share photos of a prize chanter which he owns which […]

Ross Ainslie, a fast car and bagpipes in the Highlands

Ross Ainslie, a fast car and bagpipes in the Highlands

National Piping Centre tutor, Ross Ainslie, and his music star alongside a custom-built classic car from Scottish Racing Team, Ecurie Ecosse. The promotional video is for their limited edition LM-C, and if you have deep pockets and would like to place an order for one of the five limited edition […]

Stonehaven’s drums go to school on Harris

Stonehaven’s drums go to school on Harris

Youngsters on the Isle of Harris are marching to musical success thanks to a donation of a full set of pipe band drums from the North East’s Stonehaven Pipe Band. Stonehaven Pipe Band recently took the difficult decision to disband, but their drums won’t stay silent for long following the […]

Michael Grey’s Notes: Seven deadly sins

Michael Grey’s Notes: Seven deadly sins

GREY’S NOTES by Michael Grey. Piping Today #70, 2014. One of the people I teach, a young guy, about 17, is mad as hell about piping. He eats it up. Loves the tunes, loves to play. He’s crazy about piping — a lot like you maybe. I can tell you […]

TNPC Spring Adult Gathering April 25-28

TNPC Spring Adult Gathering April 25-28

The National Piping Centre announce the teachers for the Spring Adult Gathering! Join them for one-to-one lessons, workshops, masterclasses, group lessons and more from a world class teaching line up of – Wilson Brown, Connor Sinclair, Ailis Sutherland, Dr Andrew Bova, Dan Nevans and Danny Hutcheson. There are two timezones, […]

One week to go, get your tickets now!

One week to go, get your tickets now!

The Closkelt 2022 concert takes place on Saturday, March 26 at the 400-seat Market Place Theatre in Armagh City, Northern Ireland. The concert will be Closkelt Pipe Band’s first public performance since promotion to Grade 1 in winter 2019. It’s also the first performance with a new back line lead […]

Kyle Shead in the Duncan Johnstone 2022 C Grade Jig competition

Faces from the Duncan Johnstone 2022

These photos are some of the pipers from the Duncan Johnstone Memorial C Grade Jig competition in The National Piping Centre Auditorium on Saturday, March 12. Kyle Shead won the C Grade Jig and the new trophy – The Roddy MacLeod Trophy for Jig Playing.  This was the first year […]

Cullen Pipe Band parading past St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York, March 17, 2001

O’Donnell’s March and The Eagle’s Whistle

To celebrate St Patrick’s Day we are sharing a couple of traditional Irish tunes courtesy of Con Houlihan. Con is the Pipe Major of the Cullen Pipe Band from the Sliabh Luachra area of County Cork. He is also a Grade 1 CLASP competitor and is the father of Silver […]