Highlighting concerts at Celtic Connections 2024 featuring bagpipes or piping-related music. The Celtic Connection website says about the concert: “A spectacular night of entertainment celebrating the incredible musical talent from the Lochaber area will showcase world-renowned musical personalities such as Mànran accordionist and BBC broadcaster Gary Innes, who is Musical Directing […]
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A new compilation of fine Scottish pipers, playing smallpipes in ‘C’
The Piper and the Maker II ~ Celebrating C Twenty years after a lively night in Pitlochry where the first Piper and the Maker album was recorded live, pipe-makers Hamish & Fin Moore felt the time was right for another CD. With some of Scotland’s finest pipers playing Moore pipes, […]
Highland Pipers with Royal Appointment: John MacGregor; Donald MacKay Sr.; Ewen Henderson; Duncan MacDougall
PART 1 by JEANNIE CAMPBELL MBE The stories of Queen Victoria’s pipers are well known and there is no need to repeat them here, but there were several more pipers, perhaps less well known, who were employed by other members of Queen Victoria’s family. The young queen’s visit to Taymouth […]