Piping in Kutztown, PA – Piping & Drumming in Edinboro, PA Balmoral School of Piping & Drumming will hold two, weeklong Summer Camps, one in eastern Pennsylvania, one in the west. The first session, July 7-12, will be a piping camp at Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA. The following week, July […]
Forty-eight piobaireachd enthusiasts from fourteen different U.S. states and two Canadian provinces flocked to Pittsburgh On February 9-11 for the second annual Jimmy McIntosh MBE Piobaireachd Workshop held at Carnegie Mellon University. Students came from as far away as Albuquerque, New Mexico; San Diego, California; and Calgary, Alberta. The action-packed […]
The Winter Storm 2024 Competition results were announced by The Midwest Highland Arts Fund (MHAF) Board of Directors yesterday evening, January 12 at the Kansas City Marriott – Country Club Plaza Grand Ballroom. The top piping winners were Ben McClamrock winning the Gold Medal for Piobaireachd, Nick Hudson winning the […]
Balmoral’s upcoming Winter Workshop will be a 3-day remote-learning session, held via Zoom from February 2 – 4, 2024. The instructors will be Robert Mathieson, Derek Midgley, and Andrew Carlisle. The cost is $275 USD. Students who refer new students to us will receive $50 off the price of the […]
The American Pipe Band Championships took place as part of the Virginia International Tattoo in Norfolk, Virginia on Saturday, April 22. The event was live streamed on Facebook and all the performances are available to watch on the links below. Go directly to Ulster Scottish Pipe Band’s Grade 2 winning […]
The Virginia International Tattoo American Pipe Band Championship will return to Scope Plaza, Norfolk on Saturday, April 22nd starting at 12 noon EST. Eight bands from five US states and one Canadian province are so far registered to compete. There are still a couple of travel stipends available if there […]
Two Camps in Pennsylvania – East Stroudsburg and Edinboro On July 9-14, the Balmoral School of Piping & Drumming will return to the popular ESU campus in East Stroudsburg, PA. The week after, July 16-21, a camp will be held at PennWest in Edinboro. Both camps will feature an exciting […]
Sean Patrick Regan is performing a Graduate Recital this coming Sunday, April 24, 2022. The concert is the culmination of his Master of Music Performance (Bagpipe) degree, taught by Andrew Carlisle at Carnegie Mellon University. The event is free to attend in-person or online and tickets should be booked here. […]
Carnegie Mellon University, the private research university based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA is seeking a part-time drumming instructor to lead the drum corps of its Pipes and Drums. The position being offered is a 20 hours per week part-time position for 10 months of the year (the academic year). The […]
Donald ‘Duaghal’ MacKay was born in the old Tongue House in Sutherland, Scotland in 1591. His father, Uisdean was the 13th chief of the MacKays and Donald succeeded him as 14th chief on Uisdean’s death in 1614. Donald was knighted in 1616 and became 1st Lord Reay in 1628, the […]
