The National Piping Centre has just announced an open call for four NPC Piping Club Tutors. Successful applicants will be provided with appropriate training for the role, and gain real-world professional development opportunities throughout the project. This role is for piping tutors with an interest in working with children and young people to engage in high-quality […]
To mark International Bagpipe Day 2024 we look back at highlights from Glasgow’s International Piping Festival – Piping Live! – in 2022 and 2023. If you are piping anywhere in the world today, record your performance and tag @bagpipenews in your social media to let us see how you are […]
The packed audiences in the Strathclyde suite at Celtic Connections 2024 were treated to the sparkling bagpipes and music of Finlay MacDonald, José Manuel Tejedor and Ali Levack over the weekend of January 27 and 28. The Saturday evening concert began with the captivating sound from the Asturian gaita of […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
Over the past four days Willie McCallum, Danny Hutcheson, Ailis Sutherland and Wilson Brown have been presenting videos on The National Piping Centre’s February Piping Challenge. Willie spoke about 2/4 marches and plays The Crags of Stirling, Danny teaches strikes, Ailis talks about jig playing using the tune The Judge’s […]
The Pipers’ Tryst session workshop was in full swing on Saturday, January 28, at The National Piping Centre in Glasgow. This was the third of a four-day workshop series for bellows pipes, aimed at teaching the tunes and skills for playing in a trad music session. The afternoon session was […]
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 […]
