In one week’s time Piping Live! will be well underway, and Tuesday’s programme of events is extensive and offers something to suit the taste of every piper. If you are able to spend the day in Glasgow you can fill your Tuesday with bagpipes from 9.30am and keep going into […]
The Scottish Pipe Band Championships were held on Saturday, July 30, at Levengrove Park in Dumbarton. Photos: JohnSlavin@designfolk.com/Bagpipe.news
The Scottish Pipe Band Championships were held today, Saturday July 30, at Levengrove Park in Dumbarton. The weather was overcast but warmish with occasional periods of sunshine. There was a new layout of the fields, and it didn’t feel like an improvement as it lost the iconic backdrop of the […]
Less than two weeks to go to Piping Live! and The National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland are preparing to present their concert titled Emerging Composers: 20 Years Young in the City Halls on the first evening of the festival, Monday, August 8 at 7.30pm. Ten new pieces that have […]
Braemar Junior Games was held on Saturday, July 23. It is the “young” version of possibly the world’s best known Highland Gathering. Held in the same King George V Park, it really puts the fun into the games, surely meeting the organiser’s aim of giving the next generation a taste […]
The 71st Ulster Pipe Band Championships took place today, July 23, 2022 at Ballymena Academy. The results were as follows: Grade 4B Best Drum Corps – Syerla & District Syerla & District McDonald Academy Hollymount Altnaveigh Memorial Grade 4A Best Drum Corps – Kildoag Kildoag Cloughfin William Kerr Memorial Raphoe Ulster-Scots Grade […]
The Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association Northern Ireland Branch (RSPBANI) and Newry, Mourne and Down District Council are pleased to announce the launch of the Heart o’ Down Pipe Band Championships for 2022. This year’s event will be held in the familiar surroundings of Donard Park in Newcastle which played […]
The National Piping Centre and William Grant Foundation are delighted to announce that the Glenfiddich Piping Championship 2022 will return for its 49th edition with in person and online audiences from 10am on Saturday, October 29, 2022. The Glenfiddich Piping Championship was established in 1974 to inspire the world’s finest […]
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 […]
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 […]
