The Competition for Amateur Solo Pipers offered three ‘Live Online’ competitions in February, May and November of 2023. These competitions are organised by Margaret Houlihan at The National Piping Centre in order to give amateur pipers across the world a chance to compete in the CLASP. The CLASP ‘Live Online’ […]
GREY’S NOTES by Michael Grey. Piping Today #85 • 2017. It was the moon on nights like this, it was nights like this, it was the wind as it pawed at you or cried as it approached, the sound of the river, the clotted stars against the dark sky, the […]
Manawatu Scottish Pipe Band were the Grade 1 winners at the the Jenny Mair Square Day on Saturday, December 9, in Palmerston North, New Zealand. The band retain the title that they also won in 2022. Also in Grade 1, Invercargill and Auckland finished on 20 points in the combined […]
The winners of the 21st MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards were announced at a celebratory ceremony at Dundee’s Caird Hall on Saturday, December 2. Pipe Major Ross Harvey was on hand to collect the Pipe Band of The Year Award on behalf of Grade 1 World Champions, Peoples Ford […]
By BEN DUNCAN. The Caritas Banner was held today, November 26, at George Watson’s College, Edinburgh. It was a fantastic day of Piobaireachd with some really encouraging performances across all events. 52 young pipers entered, making for a healthy day of competition. The event was sponsored by the Piobaireachd Society, […]
The 50th Glenfiddich Piping Championship took place on October 28, 2023, and The National Piping Centre’s YouTube team were on hand to capture what goes on behind the scenes and make the event happen. We hear from some of the people that make the event happen including Helen Urquhart (Head […]
Bagpipe.news reader, Mary Ann Macleod, recorded and uploaded videos from the Angus D. and Angus J. MacColl concert, which was organised by Lewis & Harris Piping Society on Friday, November 17. The Society organise the prestigious Donald MacLeod Invitational Solo Piping Competition which was won by Callum Beaumont in April […]
GREY’S NOTES by Michael Grey. November 2023. Going along to get along. You may know that I have landed unexpectedly and feet first in the land of pipe bands. Where, say, this past summer I was on the periphery – a listener, a judge, a toe-tapping outsider – this autumn […]
By GEORGE BALDEROSE, Executive Director and LESLIE CLARK, Associate Director The Balmoral School of Piping & Drumming The Seventeenth Annual Balmoral Classic organised by the Balmoral School of Piping and Drumming began on Saturday morning, November 4, 2023 with the US Junior Solo Junior Bagpiping Championship contests held at the […]
Roddy MacLeod MBE was awarded the Bratach Gorm last night by the Scottish Piping Society of London, November 3, in the Caledonian Club in Belgravia. Roddy’s win means he is the second invitee to next year’s Glenfiddich Championships, joining last weeks Glenfiddich winner Callum Beaumont. Am Bratach Gorm (The Blue […]
