The third and final week of piping-related concerts at Celtic Connections are listed below and includes concerts with Carlos Núñez, Kathryn Tickell and Falasgair, Peoples Ford Boghall & Bathgate Caledonia Pipe Band, National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland, John Mulhearn, Brìghde Chaimbeul, John Dew in the final of the BBC […]
•Carlos Núñez playing at Celtic Connections 2013. Photo: JohnSlavin@designfolk.com/Bagpipe.news Highlighting concerts at Celtic Connections 2024 featuring bagpipes or piping-related music. The Celtic Connection website says about the concert: “Carlos Nuñez is the poster boy of Galician music, but it’s a title he has earned by both talent and hard work. With […]
A Beginner’s Guide • By John Slavin. I have often wondered why the notes on the Highland pipe chanter have the wrong names, and thought it might point to a time in history when the pipe chanter’s low A note did actually sound an A note at 440Hz. I took […]
A Beginner’s Guide • By John Slavin. Part four of this series is to give pipers some understanding of what other instruments need to do in order to be in tune with our concert pitch B-flat chanter, or even allow you to tell your musician friends what they should be […]
A Beginner’s Guide • By John Slavin. As part of the interviews conducted for this feature in 2011, I focused on a few topics which are crucial, or closely related, to the whole subject. These discussions are not all about the theory but more about sharing the experience of the […]
By Hugh Cheape • From the February 2015 Piping Times In 1994, a mid-winter festival was launched in Glasgow under the banner of ‘Celtic Connections’. It was a piece of genius to fill that gloomy episode between Hogmanay and Burns’ Night with a music festival and the event has gone […]
Carlos Núñez at Celtic Connections in 2013
Piper and multi-instrumentalist, Calum MacCrimmon of Scottish folk band Breabach, who were nominated for a BBC Radio 2 ‘Best Band’ Folk award of 2011, talks about the importance of having a concert pitch B-flat chanter. Calum attended Celtic Connections in 2004 as part of The National Youth Pipe Band of […]
