Pittsburgh’s Balmoral School of Piping & Drumming invites young pipers age 21 and under to apply to participate in the 2023 Balmoral Classic: US Junior Solo Bagpiping Championship. The competition will be held on Saturday, November 4, 2023, from 9:00am to 4:30pm. An awards ceremony will follow at 5:00pm. The […]
A semester of study here in Scotland at one of this country’s leading universities may offer a once in a lifetime academic experience. If you want to study piping, this could also give you a summer of piping, the chance to play in a Scottish pipe band, travel around Scotland […]
The Springbank Invitational took place at the Argyll Arms Hotel, Campbeltown, Argyllshire, on Saturday, September 16, 2023. Fred Morrison was winner of the Piobaireachd competition and Stuart Liddell was the overall winner with a first place in the MSR and a second in the Piobaireachd. The full list of competitors […]
Four weeks ago, on Monday, August 14 at Piping Live! 2023, the Masters Solo Piping Competition was in full swing in The National Piping Centre Auditorium. The piobaireachd event was held throughout the day with 20 competitors and was won by Bruce Gandy, which gave him the overall Masters title for 2023 […]
The amateur solo piping competitions of Chatsworth Country Fair were held on September 2 in the grounds of Chatsworth House in the Derbyshire Dales, England’s Peak District. The overall champion of Senior competition on September 3 was Callum Beaumont and the full results can be viewed here. The Competition League […]
Chatsworth Country Fair in Derbyshire attracted an entry of 16 pipers yesterday, September 3, with a total prize fund of over £3500. Warm weather with bright sunshine all day provided excellent conditions and a high standard was evident in all events. The overall champion, Callum Beaumont, received a further prize […]
Just over two weeks ago People’s Ford Boghall and Bathgate Caledonia Pipe Band won the World Pipe Band Championships for the first time in their 52 year history. This morning we take a look back at the photos of the wild, emotional celebrations which were fun to photograph. One couldn’t […]
The Blairgowrie & Rattray Highland Games took place today, September 3, at Bogles Field, Blairgowrie. There were 47 pipers competing in very fine weather for early September. Steven Gray was the overall winner of the Senior Open Grade and the full results were as follows: Senior – Open Piobaireachd Senior […]
It has been a very successful two days for Callum Beaumont at the Northern Meeting. Callum won the Senior Piobaireachd at Inverness yesterday, September 1, adding a Gold Clasp to accompany the Silver Star for MSR he won on day one of the competitions. Seonaidh Forrest, 13, a pupil at […]
The National Piping Centre is inviting more women to contribute to their survey on the experiences of women in the piping and drumming community in Scotland, after a fantastic initial response that saw hundreds of women come forward to share their views. The extension of the survey comes as The […]
