Connor Sinclair retained the Ardmore Cup yesterday, February 24, in Ardmore, Waterford, Ireland. This years competition featured ten top pipers: Alister Donaghy, Chris Earls, James Frazer, Bruce Gandy, Angus MacColl, Willie McCallum, Connor Sinclair, James Stone, Alen Tully and Scott Wallace. Judges were David Caldwell, Tim Farrelly and John Wilson. […]
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The Festival of Juvenile Solo Piping 2003 – 2023
By GERARD McCLUMPHA, Event Coordinator. Is looking back always a good thing? I’m not 100% sure on that as a rule – but in the case of the past twenty years of the Festival of Juvenile Solo Piping competition I think we can safely say yes! It all started with the […]
Considering tune selections for solo competitions
by Fergus Muirhead, at the Glenfiddich Piping Championship 2019 One of the biggest decisions a competitor has to make during his or her preparation for a competition is the tunes they are going to submit. In some events they have a free choice of music while in others they have […]
Catch up with new piping tunes and chat on YouTube
The National Piping Centre is constantly adding top quality new content to YouTube. Most recently there have been interviews with Katie Robertson (The Wheeled Piper), former member of The National Piping Center Board of Directors, Alan Forbes, and energetic pipes and whistles exponent Ali Levack. The most recent offering in […]
One week to go to enter Pipe Idol 2023
Pipe Idol is a flagship event of the Piping Live! festival and has been very popular with the Street Cafe audience for many years. The photos below show it started life as a busking event on the streets of Glasgow for young pipers in 2004, but it has become one […]
See NPC Youtube channel for new piobaireachd and smallpipe videos
In the last five days The National Piping Centre has added three videos to their Youtube Channel. Two of the videos are from the Glenfiddich Championship in 2022, and feature Jack Lee performing and Connor Sinclair being interviewed. The third video is an addition to the What’s In A Tune […]
See Connor Sinclair in recital in Oban this week
The Netherlorn Piping Society are hosting a recital with Connor Sinclair this Thursday, March 16 in the Argyllshire Gathering Halls in Oban The event starts at 7.30, with £4 entry for adults and free entry for children. The Argyllshire Gathering Halls are in Breadalbane Street, Oban, PA34 5NZ. Connor is […]
Hear piping degree student Hazel Whyte and Connor Sinclair at the Glenfiddich on YouTube
Hazel Whyte is a member of The National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland and currently in the BMus Traditional Music: Piping course at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. In this edition of the Piping Show, Hazel talks about her musical pathway to the NYPBS and the RCS degree course. Hazel […]
Results from the Ardmore Cup Invitational Piping Competition 2023
The Ardmore Cup Invitational was held today, February 25, in St Declan’s Village Hall, Ardmore, Waterford. The contest was organised by Eric M. Stein who also runs the SunBelt competition which took place in November in Orlando, Florida. The competitors were Alen Tully, Kris Coyle, Julian Dorman, Chris Earls, Angus MacColl, […]
Tickets available for the Glenfiddich Piping Championship on October 29
Ten of the world’s greatest solo pipers will compete in this year’s Glenfiddich Piping Championship, as the renowned competition returns to the spectacular Blair Castle on Saturday, October 29. Competing this year are defending champion Jack Lee, Dollar’s Callum Beaumont, Glasgow-based Canadian piper Glenn Brown, Jamie Forrester from London, Canadian […]