Tag: Glasgow

Ross & Ali rock the Old Fruitmarket at Celtic Connections 2024

Ross & Ali rock the Old Fruitmarket at Celtic Connections 2024

The Ross Ainslie & Ali Hutton Band played to a large, adoring audience last night, January 20 at Celtic Connections 2024. The performance was a showcase for their prodigious compositional skills and musicianship, but was interspersed with some tunes written by their mentor Gordon Duncan, a song from Connor Markey […]

Improve your piping on the HND Music – Piping course

Improve your piping on the HND Music – Piping course

Derek Doyle is the HND Co-ordinator at The National Piping Centre and one of his main roles is the organisation of the Higher National Certificate and Higher National Diploma Music – Piping courses. It started life as an HNC in 2016 and then the HND Course was added in 2021, […]

The Reeling puts bagpipes and Scottish musicians on a sunny stage

The Reeling puts bagpipes and Scottish musicians on a sunny stage

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 […]

Michael Grey’s Notes: Piping in later life – no excuses

Michael Grey’s Notes: Piping in later life – no excuses

GREY’S NOTES by Michael Grey. Piping Today #74, 2015. My Dad always said that life moves forward at a pace in tandem with a person’s age.  So when you’re 10, life seems to move along at a grindingly slow 10mph. At 10 a kid feels like it’ll take forever for […]

Play on Buchanan Street at Piping Live! 2022

Play on Buchanan Street at Piping Live! 2022

Pipe Bands on Buchanan Street are back for 2022, and Piping Live! is now taking applications. Until 2019, Piping Live! had a packed schedule of pipe bands from across the world performing on Buchanan Street as part of the festival programme, and for 2022 they are bringing it back. Bands […]

Michael Grey’s Notes: Dear Old Glasgow Town

Michael Grey’s Notes: Dear Old Glasgow Town

GREY’S NOTES by Michael Grey. Piping Today #71, 2014. You know you’re a seriously regular visitor to Glasgow when someone stops you on the street, asks for directions  and you can help – and with mostly reliable info. It’s the last Friday of the Commonwealth Games and thanks to years […]