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 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 […]
The 27th Annual George Sherriff Memorial Invitational will held on on Saturday, November 18 at St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church in Hamilton, Ontario. The competition is organised by the ubiquitous Bob Worrall, who is currently travelling to Scotland to judge at the 50th Glenfiddich Piping Championship this weekend. The George Sherriff Memorial […]
The 40th Nicol-Brown Invitational took place yesterday, October 7 at St. Mark Presbyterian Church, Rockville, Maryland. The competition invited ten of the top young amateurs from North America to play in elite solo competition consisting of three events: 6/8 Marches, Piobaireachd and MSR. The competitors were Gillian Blaney, Cameron Bonar, Thomas […]
The photo above is somewhat misleading as it was a wet day yesterday in Oban, August 24, for the Argyllshire Gathering 2023. The weather wasn’t kind to the pipers in the light music competitions out in the fresh air of Mossfield Park. However the rain didn’t stop young Cameron Bonar, […]
Stuart Liddell was the winner of the Pipe Major Alasdair Gillies Memorial Recital for 2023. Stuart played first and his piping and entertaining showmanship received a rapturous response from the large audience. Earlier in the evening, 15-year-old Cameron Bonar from Canada won the final of Pipe Idol receiving a set […]
This time next week Glasgow will be full of pipers and drummers and Piping Live! has a full day of events planned to keep them entertained. See the listings below for daytime events and take your pick from pipe band performances, CLASP Grade 2 solo piping competition, a recital with […]
By MIKE CHISHOLM Director, Communications Chair, BC Pipers’ Association. BC piper Zephan Knichel took the top prize at the 6th Annual Boney Music Memorial Invitational Competition and Recital in Vancouver on Saturday, May 14. Jeanette Bonar, wife of the late Andrew Bonar who started the event, and Andrew’s son Cameron, […]
US piper, Tim Cummings has released an interesting new album. The Birds’ Flight is the culmination of several years’ worth of collaboration between Tim and Pete Sutherland (fiddle, song), and Brad Kolodner (banjo). The Vermont-based composer and multi-instrumentalist has included traditional pipe tunes restyled as Appalachian-style hoedowns and waltzes. Tim […]
