The Jenny Mair Square Day took place on Saturday, December 10, in Palmerston North, New Zealand. This is the second ‘unofficial’ major of the New Zealand pipe band season, and the first where all the Grade 1 bands compete against each other. The New Zealand and South Pacific Pipe Band […]
Roddy MacLeod MBE is keeping busy since leaving his role as Principal of The National Piping Centre in 2020. Roddy held the post since 1996, and his work at TNPC over those 24 years has been recognised by the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland who awarded him a fellowship in a […]
The CPA have launched a survey this morning, November 28, aimed at encouraging junior pipers to join the CPA and become involved in adult solo piping competitions. The survey is created in google forms and is accessible to everyone through the link here.
The 20th Scots Trad Music Awards will be held on December 4, 2022, in the Caird Hall in Dundee. The aim of the awards is to champion top Scottish traditional musicians of all genres, recognising and celebrating the wealth of talent, and bring it to the media spotlight. Pipers, pipe […]
The Scottish Piping Society of London have announced this evening that Bruce Gandy is the 2022 winner of the Bratach Gorm and Fred Morrison is the overall winner. The full results are as follows: An Bratach Gorm Bruce Gandy (The Unjust Incarceration) Iain Speirs (Colin Roy Mackenzie’s Lament) Alan Bevan […]
Willie McCallum was named the overall champion of the prestigious Glenfiddich Piping Championship. Tonight’s win marks a record ninth win for Willie, extending his record of having the most overall wins ever. Willie, originally from Campbeltown, went up against nine of the world’s greatest solo players at the renowned 49th […]
Ten of the world’s greatest solo pipers will compete in this year’s Glenfiddich Piping Championship, as the renowned competition returns to the spectacular Blair Castle on Saturday, October 29. Competing this year are defending champion Jack Lee, Dollar’s Callum Beaumont, Glasgow-based Canadian piper Glenn Brown, Jamie Forrester from London, Canadian […]
By JOHN SLAVIN. David Colvin’s critically acclaimed and award-winning play about Gordon Duncan, Thunderstruck, returns to The National Piping Centre on Thursday and Friday of this week, October 13 and 14 with tickets available here. I was lucky enough to be there when it first came to Glasgow at Piping […]
The 49th Glenfiddich Piping Championship will take place on Saturday, October 29, 2022. The event is held annually at Blair Castle in Blair Atholl, Perthshire, and is organised by The National Piping Centre and funded through the William Grant Foundation. The 2022 competitors have been chosen from the list of […]
The National Piping Centre’s successful new workshop and teaching week for young pipers, the Junior Gathering, returns during the October school holidays from Monday 17 to Thursday 20. This Autumn Junior Gathering will be held at the NPC’s Otago Street venue in Glasgow’s West End, and features a wide range […]
