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 […]
The opening night of Celtic Connections is one month away, with the 30th anniversary concert beginning the festival on Thursday, January 19, 2023 in the main auditorium of the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. Ross Ainslie is part of a ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ line-up of musicians who will perform on the opening night. […]
•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 […]
The National Piping Centre is developing a new partnership with Gordon’s School in Surrey. The school was established in 1885 at the behest of Queen Victoria as the National Memorial to General Gordon, a national hero and extraordinary public servant. Gordon’s has a long history of having a school pipe […]
This week’s episode of The Piping Show sees Ailis Sutherland chat to Finlay MacDonald about her young piping tuition, playing in solo and band competition, winning the Worlds with Shotts and Dykehead Pipe Band and her musical pathway through higher education. Ailis now is an employee with The National Piping […]
The CLASP workshop weekend will take place both in-person and remotely using the Zoom platform on Friday 7 and Saturday 8, October. Instructors confirmed to date are John Wilson, John Mulhearn, Wilson Brown, Ailis Sutherland, Connor Sinclair, Margaret Dunn and Andrew Bova. Registrations Open until Wednesday 28th September 2022 (Midnight UK […]
The National Piping Centre launched their Weekend Piping Club on Saturday, September 3, and this first block will run over the next 11 weeks. The Club is aimed at young people aged-17 & under, with classes being taught in small groups at The National Piping Centre in McPhater Street. The […]
The National Piping Centre launched a YouTube channel earlier this year and for the past month has been very busy recording and editing The Piping Show and adding a new episode every week. There are currently five episodes online and the format is fast-paced, informative and entertaining. The episodes so […]
The National Piping Centre are welcoming subscribers to their new YouTube channel, and promoting the Junior Gathering seasonal schools with a video tour of their city centre building at McPhater Street. Take a tour of the building with piping tutor Ailis Sutherland as she explains what is on the programme […]
On Sunday May 1, National Piping Centre instructors Wilson Brown and Ailis Sutherland returned from Italy after spending four days teaching at the Italian Spring School. Due to Covid, this was the first time since 2019 that the NPC had been involved with this school. The school was based on […]
