Celtic Connections offers something for every piping taste, whether it be pipe bands, Scots trad music performers and bands playing Highland Pipes and bellows pipes, or performers from across European piping traditions. Twenty one Celtic Connections concerts have been uploaded here on the bagpipe.news event calendar, starting on January 19 […]
Celtic Connections launched their 2024 concert programme today, October 10, and announced an exciting concert collaboration between the current Grade 1 World Champions, Peoples Ford Boghall and Bathgate Pipe Band and The National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland. The concert takes the usual Celtic Connections Saturday afternoon piping gig start […]
The Reeling festival was held last weekend, June 10 and 11, in Rouken Glen Park on the fringes on Glasgow, and the photos show a spectacular start in its inaugural year. The Highland pipes were well represented throughout the festival, and another positive aspect is how many Scottish traditional music […]
Rouken Glen Park in Glasgow’s south side will come to life with traditional Scottish and roots music from some of the country’s most exciting artists at The Reeling on Saturday 10 and Sunday 11 June 2023. The opening day of the festival sees a raft of bagpipe-driven Scottish bands grace […]
You may be planning a quiet start to daily life in 2023, but a busy January lies in store for those who want to start the year filled with bagpipes. If you are in Scotland, The National Piping Centre is offering weekend tuition for U17 pipers; adult amateur pipers have […]
A Beginner’s Guide • By John Slavin. THE GREAT Highland Bagpipe is a versatile instrument capable of producing breathtaking music in the hands of the finest solo performers and Grade 1 bands, or of stirring the emotions of the listener when a pipe band parades down the street with a […]
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. […]
Piping and pipe band historian, Jeannie Campbell has unearthed a fascinating photograph of Willie Lawrie receiving the Gold Medal in 1910. There are very few known photographs of the Ballachulish-born piper in existence so the find is extremely valuable. It was in 1910 that Lawrie became the second piper ever […]
1. How are you these days?I’m pretty well. I didn’t think I’d be missing the business of university but with restrictions in place I’m going a little mad. Other than that, I’m grand. I spent four years studying on the BMus (Traditional Music – Piping) Degree course at the Royal […]
By Captain John A MacLellan MBE Piobaireachd, or ceòl mòr as many pipers prefer to call it, can be classified under various headings, all of which have some effect on the production of the music. Some of these classifications are more important than others. Probably of least importance, is the […]
