Tag: Ailis Sutherland

Women in piping and drumming survey

Women in piping and drumming survey

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 […]

Catch up with new piping tunes and chat on YouTube

Catch up with new piping tunes and chat on YouTube

The National Piping Centre is constantly adding top quality new content to YouTube. Most recently there have been interviews with Katie Robertson (The Wheeled Piper), former member of The National Piping Center Board of Directors, Alan Forbes, and energetic pipes and whistles exponent Ali Levack. The most recent offering in […]

Join the NPC Adult Gatherings in 2023 – tutors announced

Join the NPC Adult Gatherings in 2023 – tutors announced

The National Piping Centre is bringing you a series of Adult Gatherings in 2023 for pipers aged 18+, which have been designed to give a fantastic social learning experience. This year we will be running in person workshops as well as online events. The date for the Summer Adult Gathering […]

Improve your piping on the HND Music – Piping course

Improve your piping on the HND Music – Piping course

Derek Doyle is the HND Co-ordinator at The National Piping Centre and one of his main roles is the organisation of the Higher National Certificate and Higher National Diploma Music – Piping courses. It started life as an HNC in 2016 and then the HND Course was added in 2021, […]

Trad session tuition in the Pipers’ Tryst during Celtic Connections

Trad session tuition in the Pipers’ Tryst during Celtic Connections

Traditional music sessions are enticing, and the interplay of the musicians and instruments may seem random to an onlooker. However, there is often an unseen session etiquette that needs to observed sensitively by a beginner. And many sessions will have a repertoire of tunes that are particular to a venue […]

The Weekend Piping Club bookings now open for January 7, 2023

The Weekend Piping Club bookings now open for January 7, 2023

The National Piping Centre’s Weekend Piping Club provides small group piping and chanter lessons for under 17 year olds. The classes are offered on a Saturday and a Sunday morning through the school term time in 12 week blocks. The next term starts on Saturday January 7 and runs to […]

BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician 2023 Semi Finals.
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Ailis Sutherland




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Celtic Connections: BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the Year Final 2023

•Ailis Sutherland pictured playing in the BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician 2023 Semi Finals. Photograph by Martin Shields. www.martinshields.com  © Martin Shields The final of BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the Year competition brings six of the country’s rising stars to the stage as they battle for this […]